RESOURCES
HG Foundation wants everyone to experience the peace of mind that comes with being prepared. For individuals and their loved ones, no care decisions are more profound than those made at end of life. These online resources and helpful links are here to inform and guide you. Let us help you get started.
NOTES TO MY FAMILY
Notes to My Family is an organizing tool to help compile important personal, health, and financial information in one convenient place. Notes to My Family helps give you peace of mind and helps your family members carry out your end-of-life wishes.
Click below for an overview of the four primary sections of Notes to My Family.
Request to download the fillable PDF of Notes to My Family by clicking below. If you prefer a hard copy binder of the publication send an email to [email protected] or call HG Foundation at 831-333-9023. Shipping and handling fees will apply.
LOVE LETTERS
Everyone wants to leave behind love and gratitude. A lasting way to do this is to write what Hospice Giving Foundation calls, Love Letters. Ideally, write letters when you’re healthy. However, if you learn you have a serious illness, we hope you find time to write letters to the most important people in your life. Download HG Foundation’s Love Letters guide for our suggestions.
PREPARE + ORGANIZE
Most of us are planners: for family matters, school, jobs, major life events, and even our vacations. Just like planning for day-to-day living, planning for our end of life makes sense. It can bring peace of mind and empower you to express your wishes. It helps you live life fully and is a gift to those you love.
Hospice Giving Foundation’s general guides get you started, organized, and keep you on track throughout your process. All guides are FREE for you and your family or friends. None of the information here is a substitute for legal advice. We strongly encourage you to contact professionals who can assist you early in the process.
Start with Legal Permission and Access to Information. Serious challenges may arise when trying to help a loved one without the needed legal permission or access to information. Understanding the limitations around information sharing allows you to plan.
When you are ready to fully prepare your plan and catalog your information, download your FREE copy of Notes to My Family.
Let’s get started!
Step 1: Find the information in this section that applies to you.
Step 2: Start with what matters most, such as finding documents, identifying a medical decision-maker, responding to an emergency, preparing to help a family member.
Step 3: Identify the people who matter most to you and will be involved.
Step 4: Start open, honest conversations. Take notes and share them with one another to be sure everyone agrees to the same thing.
Need more help? Attend a workshop at HG Foundation to get support and guidance for this process. Click here for the upcoming schedule or workshops.
Document list:
- Legal Permission + Information Access – You
- Legal Permission + Information Access – Others
- Important Document Checklist
- Get Busy Living Checklist
- Healthcare Emergency Checklist
- Roles of Professionals
- When Someone Dies Tasks + Timeline
- Successor Trustee Questions to Ask
- Duties of a Trustee
- Terms to Know
PROVIDERS
The providers listed here are in Monterey, San Benito and Santa Cruz Counties. To search for hospice or palliative care in an area outside these counties, we recommend the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s (NHPCO) Find a Provider tool. To understand more about the differences between hospice and palliative care, see our FAQs.
Every effort is made to keep this local information up-to-date. If you find an error, please let us know. Agencies listed with an * are beneficiaries of HG Foundation grant funding.
HOSPICE CARE
Hospice care is a specialized, interdisciplinary medical approach to caring for someone with a life-limiting illness, generally with a prognosis of 6 months or less to live. Focusing on pain and symptom management, and comfort not a cure, care is provided by the hospice team wherever the patient calls ‘home.’ Hospice provides support and care for both the patient and family.
Salinas
6 Quail Run Circle, Suite 103
Salinas, CA 93907
831.220.0211
Gilroy
8545 Monterey Rd, Suite B
Gilroy, CA 95020
408.848.1114
Monterey
5 Lower Ragsdale Drive
Monterey, CA 93940
831.751.5500
Monterey
2511 Garden Road, Suite A-250
Monterey, CA 93940-5332
Capitola
824 Bay Avenue, #40
Capitola, CA 95010-2104
888.427.6590
Montage Health
Monterey
2 Upper Ragsdale Drive, D-120
Monterey, CA 93940-5730
831.649.7750
Scotts Valley
940 Disc Drive
Scotts Valley, CA 95066
Watsonville
65 Nielson Street, Suite 121
Watsonville, CA 95076
831.430.3000
PALLIATIVE CARE
Palliative care is specialized medical care for people living with serious illnesses. It is provided in addition to curative treatment by a multi-disciplinary team focusing on symptoms relief, managing the stress of the illness, pain management, and helping the patient and family develop a better understanding of the course of the disease and the prognosis.
Monterey
5 Lower Ragsdale Drive
Monterey, CA 93940
831.751.5500
Monterey
23625 Holman Highway
PO Box HH
Monterey, CA 93942
Inpatient Team: 831.625.4977
Outpatient Clinic: 831.620.0700
Inpatient Services: 831.635.1148
Hollister
911 Sunset Drive
Hollister, CA 95023
Natividad Foundation
Salinas
1441 Constitution Blvd., Building 300
2nd Floor
Salinas, CA 93906
831.772.7583
Salinas
450 E Romie Lane
Salinas, CA 93901
Inpatient Team: 831.759.3049
Outpatient Clinic: 831.676.0210
PEDIATRIC CARE
Pediatric care for children with life-limiting illnesses includes child/youth appropriate palliative care and/or concurrent palliative/hospice care at an advanced stage of an illness. Services are always geared to support both the families and the child. They include emotional, practical, grief, and psychosocial support at all stages of a child’s illness.
Salinas
252 San Jose Street, Upstairs Suite
Salinas, CA 93901
800.214.5439
Watsonville
680 West Beach Street
Watsonville, CA 95076
831.724.9100
Scotts Valley
940 Disc Drive
Scotts Valley, CA 95066
Watsonville
65 Nielson Street, Suite 121
Watsonville, CA 95076
831.430.3000
Salinas
342 Pajaro Street, Suite B
Salinas, CA 93901
831.422.3002
PRACTICAL, EMOTIONAL, AND SOCIAL SUPPORT
Practical, emotional, and social support are important aspects of living fully with life-limiting illness. The following groups provide services such as grief and bereavement support, transportation assistance, disease education, financial assistance, legal services, and counseling.
Monterey
5 Lower Ragsdale Drive
Monterey, CA 93940
831.751.5500
Monterey
21 Lower Ragsdale Dr
Monterey, CA 93940
831.647.9890
Monterey County
831-320-0947
Scotts Valley
940 Disc Drive
Scotts Valley, CA 95066
Watsonville
65 Nielson Street, Suite 121
Watsonville, CA 95076
831.430.3000
Seaside
915 Hilby Avenue
Seaside, CA 93955
831.899.0492
VNA & HOSPICE
Central Coast VNA & Hospice offers grief and loss support to individuals or groups throughout Monterey, San Benito, Santa Cruz and South Santa Clara Counties.
The need for support does not end with the death of a loved one. You and your family can receive grief support to help understand and navigate through the grief process.
For information on weekly grief support groups, on-site, virtual and telephonic support visit online at: ccvna.com/support-groups/
Any questions, please call Ed Horsley, Bereavement Coordinator, at 831.751.5500 or send email to [email protected].
Grupos de duelo en español por teléfono o virtuales bajo petición
ALZHEIMER’S ASSOCIATION
Alzheimer’s Association has online resources, virtual support groups and educational webinars in English and Spanish on dementia related topics.
To learn more about their support for those living with or caring for someone with Alzheimer’s or other dementias, please call 800.272.3900 or visit online at alz.org/help-support
COMMUNITY HOSPITAL OF THE MONTEREY PENINSULA / MONTAGE HEALTH
Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula/Montage Health offers free online workshops on advance healthcare planning. Registration is required.
For more information, please call 831-625-4977 or visit chomp.org/classes
REIMAGINE END OF LIFE
Reimagine End of Life is a community-wide exploration of death and celebration of life through creativity and conversation. Drawing on the arts, spirituality, healthcare, and design, they spark experiences and festivals that break down taboos and bring diverse communities together in wonder, preparation, and remembrance.
To learn more about Reimagine festivals and conversations that explore death and celebrate life visit online at: letsreimagine.org/
END WELL
End Well brings together a multidisciplinary community that unites design, technology, health, policy and activist initiative to create a cultural shift to transform our thinking around the end of life. They convene events and share innovative ideas to inspire new thinking about the end of life experience.
Watch their most recent talks online at endwellproject.org
DEL MAR CAREGIVER RESOURCE CENTER
The Del Mar Caregiver Resource Center supports family caregivers of adults living with a brain impairment due to Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s, Stroke, Traumatic Brain Injury and other Dementias. For information on care planning, counseling & support groups, education, workshops & trainings go to delmarcaregiver.org or call 831-424-4359.
