ACCESS to End-of-Life Care: A Community Initiative
The organization seeks to improve end-of-life care services for the San Francisco, California area's culturally and ethnically diverse populations.

American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
AAHPM is an organization for physicians who are committed to furthering and fostering the practice of hospice/palliative care for the terminally ill and their families.

American Alliance of Cancer Pain Initiatives
The alliance's initiatives are now in various stages of development in all 50 U.S. states. They all serve as a significant force for change in the way cancer pain is managed in the U.S. health care system.

American Pain Society
The society is a non-profit multidisciplinary educational and scientific organization dedicated to serving people in pain through research, education, treatment, and professional practice.

Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life
This report, from a committee of the Institute of Medicine, calls for changes to improve end-of-life care, better training of health care professionals, reform of outdated laws that inhibit the use of pain-relieving drugs, and testing of new payment options.

Brave Kids
Brave Kids is an online resource for children with chronic or life threatening illnesses and disabilities.

Cancer-Pain.org
This website, built and maintained by the Association of Cancer Online Resources (ACOR), aims to help patients and caregivers learn more about pain, how to deal with it, and possible treatments. The website includes a caregiver's guide and a professionals' corner in addition to up-to-date information on understanding cancer pain and cancer pain treatments.

Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research at Brown University
The center's primary mission is to advance the fields of gerontology and health services research through both methodological and substantive research, informed by basic theories of aging, human development and the illness experience.

Community-State Partnerships To Improve End-of-Life Care
A grant program based on the belief that the actions and decisions of individual patients, families, and professionals regarding end-of-life care can be greatly enhanced if they take place in a supportive policy context.

Dying Well
This website provides resources for people facing "life-limiting" illnesses, their families, and their professional caregivers.

Eastern and Central Europe Palliative Task Force
ECEPT is an international association that brings together palliative care professionals from Eastern and Central Europe.

European Association for Palliative Care
EAPC is a federation of national and regional societies of palliative care that represents more than 25,000 individuals across Europe and elsewhere.

European Journal of Palliative Care
EJPC is the official journal of the European Association for Palliative Care. It provides a medium for a multidisciplinary discourse between professionals in palliative care around the world.

Huntsman Cancer Institute's Pain Medicine and Palliative Care Program
This program combines pain medicine, palliative care, holistic medicine, and support groups to address physical, emotional, and interpersonal needs at the time of diagnosis, during or after cancer treatment, or with progressive disease.

Improving End of Life Care in Iowa
The organization works to advance comfort, choice and control in care at the end of life throughout Iowa communities.