Our resource library offers many books that comfort and enlighten patients and their families through these stressful times. Feel free to visit our lending library full of books, videotapes and music.

A few books that we recommend:

• The Helper's Journey, Dale G. Larson, Ph.D.
• How We Die, Sherwin Nuland, M.D.
• Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom
• Cara's Story, Maureen Burns
• The Hospice Choice: In Pursuit of a Peaceful Death, Marcie Lattanzi Licht
• Dying Well, Ira Byock, M.D.
• Widowing - Surviving the First Year, J. Krimball and N. Brown
   

Online Resources:

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
www.ahcpr.gov

Aging with Dignity
www.agingwithdignity.org

American Cancer Society
www.cancer.org

American Chronic Pain Association
www.theacpa.org

American Hospice
www.americanhospice.org

Center to Advance Palliative Care Home Page
www.capc.org

Center to Improve Care of the Dying, George Washington University
www.gwu.edu/cicd

Community Efforts to Improve End-of-Life Care
www.soros.org

Consumers can increase demand for excellent end-of-life care
www.partnershipforcaring.org

Hospice Directories and Other Resources
www.aoa.dhhs.gov/aoa/webres/hospice.htm

Hospice Foundation of America
www.hospicefoundation.org

Last Chapters - stories about living with dying
www.lastchapters.org

Medicare brochures related to hospice
www.medicare.gov/publications

Medicare Website
www.hcfa.gov/medicare/hospiceps.htm

Medicare Learning Network
www.hcfa.gov/medlearn/

Michigan Hospice & Palliative Care Organization
www.mihospice.org

Missoula Demonstration Project: The Quality of Life's End
www.missoulademonstration.org

National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization
www.nhpco.org

Northern Michigan Regional Health System
www.northernhealth.org

Online community for end-of-life care
www.growthhouse.org

Pain Relief and Public Policy
www.medsch.wisc.edu/painpolicy

Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, Beth Israel Medical Center
www.stoppain.org