Hospice Resources
Hinds Hospice is here to provide you with resources to help answer your questions about end-of-life care issues.
General Hospice Resources:
Resources If Your Loved One Is Not Ready For Hospice:
Resources To Let Your Loved Ones Know Your Wishes:
General Hospice Resources:
- NHPCO Hospice Basics Video Series. These six, three minute videos, will explain what hospice is and what to expect. Hospice Basics
- Fact Sheet About Hospice Care
- Now What? Asking the tough questions
- Download a free State Specific Advance Health Care Directive click HERE
- Confused by all the medical terminology you are hearing? Glossary of Terms
- Some common things that accompany the process of dying. Understanding the Dying Process
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Foundation is dedicated to furthering the legacy and work of pioneering legend, Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Foundation Website
- Why won't my loved one eat? Artificial Nutrition and Hydration
- Additional information on issues concerning life limiting illness provided by the American Health Lawyers Association
A Guide to Legal Issues in Life-Limiting Conditions - Do you wonder what taking care of a loved one might be like? Watch this 27 minute video of one family's hospice journey: 203 days
- When your child is seriously ill
- Preparing For a Loved One To Die at Home
Resources If Your Loved One Is Not Ready For Hospice:
- FMAAA - Fresno Madera Area Agency on Aging 559-453-4405 www.fmaaa.org
- Valley Caregiver Resource Center - 559-224-9154 www.valleycrc.org
- Family Care Navigator at www.caregiver.org
- Alzheimer's & Memory Center UCSF Fresno - Dr. Linda Hewett 559-227-4810
- Alzheimer's Foundation - Marie Espinola 559-222-2444
- American Cancer Society - 559-451-0722
- American Heart Association - 559-435-5246
- American Lung Association - 559-222-4800
- Mesothelioma Center - www.asbestos.com
- Mesothelioma Guide - www.mesotheliomaguide.com
- United Way 211 - dial 211 from any phone for assistance with social services needs.
Resources To Let Your Loved Ones Know Your Wishes:
- Plan for the Future - Being prepared for end-of-life.
- Advance Directives For those 18+. Your medical treatment wishes when you can't speak for yourself.
- P.O.L.S.T. For the seriously ill and frail. Physicians Order for Life Sustaining Treatment.
- My Life In a Box - emergency preparedness and funeral planning kits:
