Symptom Management Service Resources

• Understanding Your Options at the End of Life (from UCSF Medical Center)
• VIDEO: UCSF-filmed educational video with Redwing Keyssar, RN, advance care planning expert.
• Advanced Care Planning (ASCO publication)
• Advanced Care Planning video
• East Bay Conversation Project (videos to inform conversations on end-of-life issues)
• Living Beyond Statistics
• PREPARE, an online advanced care planning tool
• Advanced Care Planning POLST Form
• Advanced Care Directive Form
• Seniors At Home 'Putting Your Affairs in Order'
• Five Wishes
• Stanford Letter Project
• The Conversation Project is dedicated to helping people talk about their wishes for end-of-life care.
• I Know Something Project  captures short, personal video stories from people who have faced the hard moments in life that we don’t talk about every day.
• FAQs: End of Life Option Act at UCSF (from UCSF Medical Center)
• MERI Center Advance Care Planning Resources

• singlefathersduetocancer.org, Resource for Bereaved Fathers
• Kara Grief Support
• Medline Plus
• Help Guide
• Circle of Care, bereavement services for children and their families
• Contact your local Home Hospice Agency for grief assistance

• Caregiver's Handbook (English, eBook)
• Orientation to Caregiving: A Handbook for Family Caregivers of Patients with Brain Tumors (English)
• Manual Para Los Encargados del Cuidado Continuo (Spanish)
• Family Caregiver Alliance
• American Cancer Society
• National Cancer Institute
• Speaking to children about cancer
• eHealth Initiative A guide to the types of electronic, web-based tools and technologies that patients and their families, caregivers, and support networks can use to make understanding, treating, and coping with cancer a little bit easier.

• Free Low Cost Complimentary/Alternative Medicine (CIM) Services
• Osher Center for Integrative Medicine

• Low Cost Counseling Clinics in the Bay Area
• Bay Area Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapists
• Telephone Counseling through Cancer Care
• Support Services Online
• Domestic Violence Hotline
• Women Inc
• La Casa de las Madres
• San Francisco Suicide Hotline
• Suicide Prevention Hotlines

• UCSF Exercise Counseling
• Every Day Health

Call your Cancer Center Social Worker for more information

• Cancer Care
• Patient Advocate Foundation
• Disability Benefits in California
• Social Security Disability
• National Employment Lawyers Assocation
• Low Cost Legal Help
• Working With Cancer

For more information on in-home assistance and transportation call your Cancer Center social worker

• Coming Home Hospice
• Hospice By The Bay
• Laguna Honda Hospice and Palliative Care
• Zen Hospice Project
• Pathways Hospice
• UCSF lodging links
• For Medi-Cal patients living further than 50 miles away, call your Cancer Center Social Worker
• Road to Recovery, American Cancer Society call (866) 444- 7672
• Paratransit

• Healing Environments
• Meditation Oasis
• Zen Hospice
• Bay Area Jewish Healing Center

• Describing Palliative Care
• Caring connections
• Getting Palliative Care
• American Cancer Society
• Physical Effects
• Emotional Effects