Resources:

In collaboration with Green Terra Sanctuary - many thanks to Susan King and Sharon Kardia

For Families Walking Through an Active End-of-Life Journey

  • CaringInfo (National Alliance for Care at Home) provides free resources to help patients and caregivers understand advance directives, hospice, palliative care, and related decisions — and includes a tool to find providers near you.

  • Aging with Dignity publishes the Five Wishes living will document — a very user-friendly, comprehensive advance directive that meets legal requirements in 35 states. 

  • PREPARE for Your Care is a free online advance care planning program with videos, easy-to-read advance directives, and written materials in all 50 states. There’s a separate version specifically for caregivers: PREPARE for Their Care. 

  • The Conversation Project — helps families initiate and document conversations about end-of-life wishes before a crisis hits.

  • Death Café – A global social movement hosting informal group gatherings where people meet to discuss death, dying, and grief in a relaxed setting. Not grief support, but community connection.

  • Family Caregiver Alliance and AARP Caregiving Resources are two of the most comprehensive national hubs for family caregivers navigating chronic illness, elder care, and end-of-life situations. 

  • Caregiver Action Network is the nation’s leading family caregiver organization, offering support, chat rooms, and resources for those caring for loved ones with chronic conditions or serious illness. 

  • Eldercare Locator (via Area Agencies on Aging) — connects families to local support services, often free of charge.

Grief Support — General

  • GriefShare is a 13-week grief recovery support group program, meeting weekly at thousands of locations worldwide — both in person and online — with over one million people having found support through it.

  • Center for Loss & Life Transition — founded by Dr. Alan Wolfelt, a leading voice in compassionate grief care. Offers resources, a bookstore, and caregiver training.

  • ADEC – Association for Death Education and Counseling is an international professional organization dedicated to promoting excellence in death education, grief counseling, and care of the dying, with a searchable directory of specialists.

  • Grief Healing Discussion Groups — online, facilitated by a professional grief therapist, with a wide library of topic-specific grief articles.