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Being Mortal Gawande presents a detailed, but highly readable history of how the meaning of death has changed over the past fifty or sixty...

The Best Care Possible - A Physician's Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life Dr. Ira Byock, one of the foremost palliative-care physicians in the United States iluminates one of the most important and...

BMC Geriatrics BMC Geriatrics is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of the health...

Building Compassion into the Bottom Line: The Role of Compassionate Care and Patient Experience in 35 U.S. Hospitals and Health Systems A Schwartz Center (Harvard University) for Compassionate Healthcare White Paper

Caring for the Human Spirit Spiritual care journal started in Summer 2014 by the Health Care Chaplaincy Network. See the attached inaugural issue. For...

The Champlain Region Palliative Sedation Therapy Clinical Practice and Medication Guidelines (2018) The guidelines were developed to ensure safe, effective, and appropriate use of palliative sedation therapy and to enhance...

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

Common Core Competences and Principles for Health and Social Care Workers Working with Adults at the End of Life Skills for Care and Skills for Health working in partnership with the Department of Health and the NHS (UK) End of Life Care...

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...

Compassion Fatigue Solutions Resources to help health care providers stay healthy when working in challenging environments. In English and French.