Hospice Foundation Of America - About Hospice (2024)

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HFA is a trusted source of information on end of life, hospice care and grief. Throughout this site you will find information about living with advanced life-limiting illness, options for care, and helpful resources for caregivers. Take the Hospice Knowledge Test Ask a Hospice Expert Living with Life-limiting Illness Additional Resources A Guide for Recalling and Retelling Your Life Story Journeys Newsletter Subscription Understanding Hospice References

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What is Hospice?
Starting the Conversation
Dispelling Hospice Myths
Caregiving
Signs of Approaching Death
Take the Hospice Quiz
Advance Directives

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Grief Resources

Journeys Newsletter

A monthly newsletter with articles written by experts that touch on the varied aspects of grief.

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What is Grief?
Support Groups
Commonly Asked Questions
Helpful Grief Articles

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Professional Education

2023-24 Professional Education Programs

View this year's line-up of nine expert-led professional education programs. 13.5 CE hours included.

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Annual Membership
Upcoming Live Programs
CE Programs On Demand
Obtain Your CE Certificate
Journeys Newsletter
HFA Program Presenters
Books and DVDs
Community Education

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HFA is a trusted source of information on end of life, hospice care and grief. Throughout this site you will find information about living with advanced life-limiting illness, options for care, and helpful resources for caregivers.

What is hospice? Learn about hospice services, eligibility and other options.

Are you a caregiver? Learn how to cope and find resources to help.

Comprendiendo el Cuidad en un Hospice – HFA’s Spanish language video on understanding...

Take the Hospice Knowledge Test

How much do you know about hospice care? This quiz is based on Medicare guidelines for hospice.

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Ask a Hospice Expert

Ask HFA provides confidential guidance to patients, families and other interested parties regarding care at the end of life.

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Living with Life-limiting Illness

How to Access Hospice Care
What is Hospice?
Palliative Care Defined
How to Choose a Hospice Provider
Choosing a Hospice: 17 Questions to Ask a Hospice
How to Prepare for Hospice Care
Paying for Hospice Care
Artificial Nutrition and Hydration
Signs of Approaching Death
Caregiving
Advance Directives
Starting the Conversation
Dispelling Hospice Myths

Hospice: Something More
A rare glimpse into the lives of hospice patients.

Paying for Hospice
With all that hospice has to offer, you may wonder whether you can afford it. The answer is YES - as this short video explains.

The Longest Loss: Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia
This free HFA video program was edited from a longer continuing education program for clinicians. Click here to watch the program .

Caregiver's Guide to the Dying Process

Additional Resources

A Guide for Recalling and Retelling Your Life Story

This beautiful, award-winning workbook is designed to help people tell their life stories.

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Journeys Newsletter Subscription

Grief takes many forms over the course of a year, and this mont... Learn More and Register

Understanding Hospice

This booklet dispels the all-too-common myths surrounding hospice as well as the hospice philosophy of care, hospice care in a nursing home, how to access hospice ca...

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Learn about becoming a hospice volunteer

HFA provides leadership in the development and application of hospice and its philosophy of care with the goal of enhancing the U.S. health care system and the role of hospice within it.

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