Links
The Carolinas Center for Hospice and End of Life Care
www.carolinasendoflifecare.org
With offices in Cary, NC and Columbia, SC, The Center is a comprehensive resource to improve hospice, palliative, and end of life care, while promoting recognition of the dying process and death as a natural part of life.
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
www.nhpco.org
NHPCO is the largest nonprofit membership organization representing hospice and palliative care programs and professionals in the United States. The organization is committed to improving end of life care and expanding access to hospice care with the goal of profoundly enhancing quality of life for people dying in America and their loved ones.
www.caringinfo.org
Caring Connections, a program of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), is a national consumer engagement initiative to improve care at the end of life, supported by a grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This organization:
- Provides free resources and information to help people make decisions about end-of-life care and services before a crisis.
- Helps people connect with the resources they need, when they need them.
- Brings together community, state and national partners working to improve end-of-life care.
- Spearheads a national consumer engagement campaign called It's About How You LIVE.
Get Palliative Care
www.getpalliativecare.org
This website is sponsored by the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC), a national organization dedicated to increasing the availability of palliative care services in hospitals and other health care settings.
The Hospice Foundation of America
www.hospicefoundation.org
This organization exists to help those who cope personally and professionally with terminal illness, death and the process of grief and bereavement.
National Alliance for Caregiving
www.caregiving.org
The National Alliance for Caregiving is dedicated to providing support to family caregivers and the professionals who help them and to increasing public awareness of issues facing family caregivers.
Compassionate Friends
www.compassionatefriends.com
An organization whose mission is to assist families toward the positive resolution of grief following the death of a child of any age and to provide information to help others to be supportive. This national, nonprofit, self-help support organizatioin offers friendship and understanding to bereaved parents, grandparents and siblings. There is no religious affiliation and there are no membership dues or fees.
American Cancer Society
www.cancer.org
Information for patients, family & friends; survivors; health information seekers; professionals and donors and volunteer
Isothermal Planning Commmission Area Agency on Aging
www.regionc.org
The mission of this agency is to serve as advocate for and facilitation of a comprehensive long-term care system which meets the needs of older adults within the region and fosters an environment of independence, quality and grace.
Alzheimer's Association
www.alz.org
A comprehensive site for information and support for those living with the effects of Alzheimer's Disease.
Nursing Homes and Assisted Living and Retirement Communities
Autumn Care, Saluda, N.C.
www.autumncorp.com/saluda.htm
Camp Care, Inman, S.C.
www.hospital-data.com/hospitals/CAMP-CARE-INC-INMAN.html
Golden Age, Inman, S.C.
www.hospital-data.com/hospitals/GOLDEN-AGE---INMAN-INMAN.html
Inman Health Care, Inc., Inman, S.C.
www.hospital-data.com/hospitals/INMAN-HEALTHCARE,-INC.-INMAN.html
LaurelWoods/LaurelHurst, Columbus, N.C.
www.laurelhurst-laurelwoods.com/
Magnolia Manor, Inman, S.C.
www.hospital-data.com/hospitals/MAGNOLIA-MANOR---INMAN-INMAN.html
Tryon Estates, Columbus, N.C.
www.actsretirement.com/com-NC-te.asp
White Oak Manor, Tryon, N.C.
www.whiteoakmanor.com/fac_loc.asp?link=tryon