Choosing Hospice

Today, one out of three people in the United States choose hospice care when they are dying. Families need to understand hospice care and the steps necessary to access this quality end-of-life option.

What is hospice?
Hospice is a special concept of care designed to provide comfort and support to patients and their families. Patients are referred to hospice when life expectancy is approximately six months or less. Hospice care can continue longer than six months if needed but requires physician certification.
--Learn some facts about hospice care here.
--Learn more about HFA.

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HFA's 2009 Teleconference: Diversity and End-of-Life Care will look at the challenges of serving a multicultural population from time of terminal diagnosis all the way through the grieving process. Watch the teleconference panel share some perspectives on the topic of diversity.
Site Coordinators - register online now. You may also register via mail or fax (PDF).

Visit our Featured Story - A Gentle Death: Five Months with Hospice.

New Online Course Available:  Hospice College of America is now offering HFA's Living With Grief: Children and Adolescents teleconference as an online course for professionals! Earn continuing education hours at your home or office  computer; only $35 for three credit hours. Register online now.

Living With Grief: Children and Adolescents - full-length DVD now available.

HFA's January E-Newsletter - Focus On: Inteview with Sandy Chen Stokes of the Chinese American Coalition