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Health care directives / Living wills - see Advanced care planning

Hospice and palliative care

Interdisciplinary practice

Hospice Palliative Care Volunteers: A Training Program A training manual developed by the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association to ensure that volunteers receive consistent...

I Don’t Want Jenny To Think I’m Abandoning Her: Views On Overtreatment A palliative care physician helps a cancer patient cope with her coming death, while her oncologist struggles to give up...

Innovative Models of Integrated Hospice Palliative Care Discussion paper which summarizes various models of care across Canada and internationally.

Insights on Death & Dying This book brings together the most popular and thought-provoking Insights on Death & Dying columns written by internationally...

Integrating a Palliative Approach: Essentials for Personal Support Workers - Workbook This workbook is a companion to the textbook, ‘Integrating A Palliative Approach: Essentials for Personal Support Workers. ’...

Integrating a Palliative Approach: Essentials for Personal Support Workers- Textbook This textbook is written specifically for personal support workers, healthcare assistants, nurse’s aides, community support...

Inter-Professional Spiritual Care Engagement Tool (SCET) This educational package has self-directed learning options for health care providers to gain an understanding of spiritual...

Life and Death Matters (Education Resources) Free online educational resources - podcasts, powerpoint presentations, an instructors's manual, and many more resources...

More Moments in Time: Images of Exemplary Nursing This book is based on the author's doctoral dissertation which looked at the beliefs, actions, and interactions of a group...

NASW Standards for Social Work Practice with Family Caregivers of Older Adults Social work standards of practice.