Resources and Guidelines

• The Nursing Home/Hospice Collaboration Resources and Guidelines(December 2004)

• How can clinicians with diverse backgrounds and training collaborate with one another to care for patients at the end of life? (PDF 197kb)

• The Opportunity for Collaborative Care Provision: The Presence of Nursing Home/Hospice Collaborations in the U.S. States
• Hospice and Palliative Care in Nursing Homes
• Quality of Life at the End of Life: The Public Health Perspective

• Policy Statement (PDF 136kb)

• Enrollment in Medicare Hospice by U.S. Nursing Home Residents: Variation by States and Their Policies (PDF 121kb)
• Successful Collaboration: Working with Long Term Care Facilities(PDF 202kb)
• "Improving Mental Health in End-of-Life Care"(PDF 247kb)
• "But She Was Comfortable": Hospice Referral when Something "Bad" Happens, Not as a Routine Referral (PDF 98kb)
• The Barriers and Facilitators to Hospice Care in Nursing Homes: Are There Feasible and Affordable Policy Fixes? (PDF 294kb)
• End-of-Life Issues: The Role of Hospice in The Nursing Home (PDF 78kb)
• Fundamentals of Geriatrics Advanced Geriatric Seminar Series (PDF 460kb)
• Nursing Home End-of-Life Care: The Nursing Home/Hospice Partnership (and Collaborative Solutions) (PDF 307kb)

• Nursing Home/Hospice Roles (PDF 41kb)
• Pocket Cards--Referral Guidelines & Breaking Bad News (PDF 74kb)