End of Life Care
 
Patients, families and the palliative care movement have emphasized the importance of quality of life and the need for high quality end of life health and mental health care. Women’s Mental Health Associates can assist in navigating individual, family, medical and spiritual responses to end of life issues among women and families coping with life-threatening conditions. We routinely provide care in the following areas.

• Coping with advanced and end stage medical conditions
• Assessment and treatment of depressive and anxiety symptoms
• Difficulties falling or staying asleep
• Caregiver issues
• Talking with family members about medical problems and end of life decisions
• End of life planning and decision making
• Decisions about end of life care
  

For helpful resources see:

Institute of Medicine
http://www.iom.edu/

American Hospice Foundation
http://www.americanhospice.org/

American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
http://www.aahpm.org/resources/

Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association
http://www.hpna.org/

The Hastings Center
http://www.thehastingscenter.org/

American Association of Retired Persons
http://www.aarp.org/

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-Last Acts
http://www.rwjf.org/