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Advance care planning / Decision making

Caregiver and caregiving

Children - About

Children - For

Communication

Complementary therapies

Culture

Death and dying

Decision making - see Advance care planning

Diseases

Education

Emotions

Ethics

Family

Financial considerations

Finding health information

Funerals and memorials

Government/group reports

Grief and bereavement

Health care directives - see Advance care planning

Hospice and palliative care

Indigenous people

International

Living wills - see Advance care planning

Living with illness

Medical assistance in dying (MAiD)

Multicultural - see Culture

Nutrition - see Symptoms - Lack of appetite / weight loss

Personal stories

Persons with disabilities

Quality of life

Sexuality

Spirituality

Symptoms

Teens - About

Teens - For

Books

DVDs/Video

Online Resources

Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer Nearly 70, 000 adolescents and young adults (ages 15-39) learn they have cancer each year in the United States. This portal...

ALS 411 An interactive website developed by the ALS Society of Canada for children and teens who have a loved one living with ALS.

Camp Erin: Bereavement Program for Youth Camp Erin is a bereavement program for youth grieving the death of a significant person in their lives. Children and teens...

Cancer Really Sucks A website designed by teens for teens who have a family member or friend living with cancer.

Childhood Cancer Canada Foundation MISSION: To create victories for Canadian children with cancer through investment in national, collaborative, lifesaving...

The Dougy Center (Teen Resources) Information specific for teens who have had someone they know die.

Huntington's Disease Youth Organization Website by Huntington's Disease Society of America contains resources for children, teens, young adults, and professionals.

Kids Help Phone: Teens Canada's toll-free, 24-hour, bilingual and anonymous phone counselling, referral and Internet service for children and youth.

Little Stars: Accomplishing the Extraordinary in the Face of Serious Illness Little Stars tells the surprisingly life-affirming stories of young people living with life-limiting illnesses. Against the...

livingoutloud.life (website) Young adults and teens are shattering the silence of living and dying with advanced illness by creating a webspace of their...