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Massachusetts Laws About Burial, Cremation, and Funerals

Massachusetts Laws About Health Care Proxies

Massachusetts End-Of-Life Care

Massachusetts Medical Society - Healthcare Proxies and End Of Life Care

Massachusetts - Issues to consider in preparing for disposition of decedents

Massachusetts - Consumer Fact Sheet For Funeral Planning

Talk Death

A Course in Dying

Death Matters

Ask a Mortician

End of Life University

Funeral Consumers Alliance of Eastern Massachusetts

Emergency Response - Dial 911

Elder Protective Services - 1-800-922-2275 - Elder Protective Services can only investigate cases of abuse where the person is age 60 and over.  Elder abuse includes:  physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, caretaker abuse, caretaker neglect, financial exploitation, and self-neglect.

Disabled Persons Protection Commission - 1-800-426-9009 - To report abuse of a person with a disability under the age of 60

Department of Public Health - 1-800-462-5540 - To report abuse of a person by nursing home or hospital

Department of Families and Children (DCF) - Nights, Weekends, and Holidays – Child-at-Risk Hotline 1-800-792-5200