Nursing Home End-of-Life Care:
The Nursing Home/Hospice Partnership

Resources and Guidelines

Manuals, Guidelines, and Books
The Nursing Home/Hospice Collaboration Resources and Guidelines
(as of December 2004)

Monograph on Nursing Home/Hospice Partnership
"How can clinicians with diverse backgrounds and training collaborate with one another to care for patients at the end of life?" (PDF 197kb)

Project Publications

• The Opportunity for Collaborative Care Provision: The Presence of Nursing Home/Hospice Collaborations in the U.S. States (link to PubMed) 
• Hospice and Palliative Care in Nursing Homes (link to PubMed) 
• Quality of Life at the End of Life: The Public Health Perspective (PDF 549kb)

APHA End-of-Life Policy
Policy Statement (PDF 136kb)

Slide Presentations (in PDF)

• 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)

Handouts from Rhode Island Workshops

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