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Grief and bereavement

Health care directives / Living wills - see Advanced care planning

Hospice and palliative care

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Hospice Concepts: A Guide to Palliative Care in Terminal Illness Provides a succinct yet comprehensive overview of hospice care. The book covers everything from hospice philosophy to Medicare...

Hospice Enabled Dementia Care: The first steps A guide to help hospices establish care for people with dementia, their families and carers.

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...

Innovations in End of Life Care This international, online journal features peer-reviewed promising practices in end-of-life care, useful tools, selected...

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...

Integrated Palliative Care This text is an account of integrated palliative care, illustrated by real-life international stories from patients and family...

Integrating a Palliative Approach into the Management of Chronic, Life-Threatening Diseases: Who, How, and When? One of a series of discussion documents prepared for the Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association (CHPCA).

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...

iPANEL- Initiative for a Palliative Approach in Nursing: Education and Leadership iPANEL is a BC research project led by Principal Investigators, Dr Kelli Stajduhar and Ms Carolyn Tayler along with a team...

Government / group reports

Program development / Standards and norms

Staffing Model for Palliative Care Programs The Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians is proud to announce publication of a paper developed by the CSPCP’s Staffing...

Stay, Breathe with Me: The Gift of Compassionate Medicine This book presents serious illness as a drama of body, mind, and soul. In this drama symptoms and suffering cannot be separated...

Tools to Support Earlier Identification for Palliative Care - Ontario Palliative Care Network The aim of this document is to support providers and system level leadership in earlier identification of patients who would...

The Way Forward National Framework This document is the first step in developing a national framework: a roadmap for implementing an integrated palliative approach...

When Breath Becomes Air This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young...

Winnipeg Regional Health Authority Guidelines for Discharge Planning for First Nations Patients Returning to Home Community for Palliative Care The Palliative Care Program of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority has developed " Guidelines for Discharge Planning...

Indigenous people

Interdisciplinary practice

International

Long term care

Medication reference guides

Other

Palliative care emergencies

Pediatrics

Professional associations