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Advance care planning / Decision making

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Communication

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Critical care

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Grief and bereavement

Health care directives / Living wills - see Advanced care planning

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Long term care

Comfort Care Rounds Module Comfort Care Rounds, originally Pain Rounds, were requested and attended by the registered staff in the evaluation LTC homes.

Communication at End-of-Life Utilizing Simulation Technology Personal Support Workers identified the need to improve their skill and comfort communicating with residents and families...

Confusion Assessment Method (CAM) CAM was intended to provide a new standardized method to enable nonpsychiatrically trained clinicians to identify delirium...

Doloplus-2 The Doloplus-2 is used for behavioural pain assessment in cognitively impaired patients.

End of Life Care - Strategies for Optimizing Family & Team Communications Presntation by Susan Blacker, RSW, MSW at the NICE (National Institute for the Care of the Elderly) Knowledge Exchange Conference...

End of Life Directions for Aged Care (ELDAC) The ELDAC project aims to improve the care of older Australians. Health professionals and aged care workers can access information,...

Front Line Staff Experiences of Grief and loss in a LTC Home Based on research of Quality Palliative Care in Long Term Care: A Community - University Research Alliance at Lakehead University.

Frontline Staff Grief and Loss in Long Term Care Presentation of research findings. Research study is component of Quality Palliative Care in Long Term Care (QTC-LTC) Project.

Geriatric eToolkit An intercollaborative initiative by the Centre for Studies in Aging & Health [CSAH] in Kingston, Ontario, the Geriatric eToolkit...

Palliative Care Geriatric Nursing An American website that provides information about palliative care in the elderly. Includes information about various palliative...