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Advance care planning / Decision making

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Health care directives / Living wills - see Advanced care planning

Hospice and palliative care

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International

Palliative Care - Fact Sheet This fact sheet supports the World Health Organization's goal to improve access to palliative care as a core component of...

Palliative care and the Global Goal for Health The International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care, the International Children’s Palliative Care Network, and...

Palliative Care and Universal Health Coverage Fact Sheet Fact sheet on Universal Health Coverage and palliative care developed by WHPCA, IAHPC and ICPCN, based on the findings of...

Palliative Care and Human Rights for Older Persons (Public Health Fact Sheet) This fact sheet examines the growing need for older persons’ palliative care, the distinct and specific palliative care and...

Palliative Care as a Human Right (Public Health Fact Sheet) This fact sheet by the Open Society Public Health Program discusses the recognition of palliative care under international...

Palliative Care Competence Framework for Nursing and Midwifery

Palliative Care in the Global Setting Resource-Stratified Guideline The purpose of this new resource-stratified guideline is to provide expert guidance to clinicians and policymakers on implementing...

Palliative Care: Transforming the Care of Serious Illness (lecture) Leffert Lecture, December 2014, Massachusetts General Hospital, presented by Dr Diane Meir, Department of Geriatrics and...

POSTnote: palliative-and-end-of-life-care Palliative and end of life care refer to the care of people who have an incurable and progressive illness. This UK POSTnote...

Report - Evaluation of the Palliative Care Toolkit The Palliative Care Toolkit: Improving care from the roots up in resource-limited settings; was developed in 2008 with support...