Últimos Cuidados
* End-of-life care for Latinos

Radio Bilingüe explores Latino approaches
to death and dying in an original series.

Hospice Organizations
Contact the following organizations for more
information about hospice care:

• California Hospice and Palliative Care Association
  The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization is a nonprofit membership organization that represents hospice and palliative care programs and professionals.
  
  
• National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
  The California Hospice and Palliative Care Association provides technical resources; monitors state legislative and regulatory activities; and works with other organizations that have an interest in end-of-life care.
  


Hospice Resources
For more information about hospice care,
see the following websites:

• Aging With Dignity
  Aging With Dignity is a non-profit organization that provides practical information, advice and legal tools for those who are aging or facing serious illness.
  * Source of the popular "Five Wishes" advance directive format.
  
  
• Medicaid
  Federal-state health insurance program for low-income and needy people. Medicaid supports hospice care.

 

Últimos Cuidados is produced by Radio Bilingüe in partnership with the California Hospice and Palliative Care Association. The series is funded in part by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the Project on Death in America of the Open Society Institute.