Welcome to IPCRC.NET
The International Palliative Care Resource Center

We are dedicated to:

  • Making palliative care resources accessible for health care professionals
  • Building palliative care capacity worldwide
  • Providing a dynamic and constantly expanding website

From the International Program at The Institute for Palliative Medicine
in collaboration with the Office for International Affairs, National Cancer Institute.

Here you will find:

Access to an extensive array of palliative care resources including comfort, supportive, hospice, end-of-life, terminal and bereavement care. With a layout based on the Conceptual Framework of Palliative Care, and the World Health Organization (WHO) Strategy for developing palliative care capacity.

This website has been designed to be:

  1. Educational: Use the buttons in the Table of Contents to access the information you want.
  2. Informative: Each link has a brief overview of the content at each website.
  3. Fast: Downloads quickly even on a slow telephone connection.

We welcome your suggestions for new resources. Send your suggestions for new resources to .

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Page Last Modified: Wed Oct 28 2009