Advanced Planning
Videos
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Discovering grief, loss, and the dying experience, presented by Barbara Karnes of Heartland Hospice.
Organizations
- AARP (American Association of Retired Persons): 800-424-3410
- Assisted Living and Senior Safety
- Benefits Check-Up
- Center to Improve Care of the Dying: 703-413-1100
- Centers for Medicare/Medicaid Services (Regional Administrator): 800-633-4227
- Compassion in Dying: 800-247-7421
- Eldercare Locator: 800-677-1116
- Eldercare Web: 309-451-3319
- Five Wishes: 888-594-7437
- Funeral Consumers Alliance: 800-765-0107
- Hospice Patients Alliance
- Medicaid: 800-633-4227
- Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (usually in state attorney general’s office): 202-326-6000
- Medicare: 800-633-4227
- National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys: 520-881-4005
- National Association of Insurance Commissioners: 816-842-3600
- National Association of Professional Geriatric Care Managers: 520-881-8008
- National Council on Aging: 202-479-1200
- National Hospice Foundation: 800-338-8619
- National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization: 703-837-1500
- National Long-Term Care Ombudsman Resource Center: 202-332-2275
- Legal Resources for the Elderly
- Partnership for Caring, Inc
- National Association of Insurance Commissioners - A Shopper's Guide to Long-Term Care Insurance: 816-842-3600
- Social Security Administration: 800-772-1213
- Social Security and Disability Resource Center
- Veteran’s Helpline: 800-827-1000
- WeCare Private Duty Services, Inc. (local Maryland resources): 410-602-3993
