Financial problems - organizations can help, like Gilda's Club

Paying for prescriptions - patients can request "compassionate use" of a drug which requires a petition to drug companies to provide medications at low cost.

Examples of organizations specific to palliative or hospice care or end-of-life care

• Americans for Better Care of the Dying 202-895-2660 www.abcd-caring.org
• Cancer Legal Resource Center [part of the Disability Rights Legal Center] 1-866-843-2572 www.disabilityrightslegalcenter.org
• Center to Advance Palliative Care. Mountain Sinai School of Medicine. 212-201-2670 www.capc.org
• End of Life Care (EPEC) 877-524-3732 www.epec.net
• Gilda's Club 888-445-3248 www.gildasclub.org
• Growth House, Inc. 415-863-3045 www.growthhouse.org

• Hospice Foundation of American 1-800-854-3402 www.hospicefoundation.org
• Improving Palliative Care for Cancer [no phone] www.nap.edu/catalog/10149.html
• National Hospice Palliative and Care Organization. National Hospice Foundation. 800-658-8898 www.hospiceinfo.org or www.nhpco.org
• Project on Death in America 212-548-0150 www.soros.org/death/
• Sacred Dying Foundation 415-585-9455 www.sacreddying.org