End of Life Care

Many patients and family members have questions about what they might expect during the last few months of life. Here we help answer some of the questions that patients and family members ask about what to expect during the last few months of life.

Here we describe hospice care, which provides humane and compassionate care for people in the last phases of an incurable disease so that they may live as fully and comfortably as possible.

An advance health care directive is a kind of legal document that tells your doctor your wishes about your health care. Get general information about different advance health care directives, like health care power of attorney, living wills, do-not-resuscitate, and other agreements like these.

Losing a loved one to cancer can be a painful and difficult time. In this guide, we discuss the grieving process and offer tips that may help you cope with your loss.

Find out about the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), a law that allows employees to take reasonable unpaid leave for certain family and medical reasons. It can provide up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave per year.