Advance directives explain how you want medical decisions to be made when you're too ill to speak for yourself.

It's important to consider long term care and end-of-life care options. 

Hospice is a set of services that we all may need someday — if not for ourselves, for our parents. While death is not an option for any of us, we do have choices about the services we use at the end of life

Hospice care focuses on palliative care or 'comfort care' to ensure a high quality of life for terminally ill. 

What is palliative care and how does it differ from hospice care? Find out more information about what caregivers should know about palliative care.