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Health care directives / Living wills - see Advanced care planning

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Prognostication / Care in the final days

Psychosocial care

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

The Nature of Suffering and The Goals of Nursing This book describes the suffering that nurses witness in patients, families, colleagues, and themselves. The audience includes...

NICE (National Initiative for the Care of the Elderly) NICE is an international network of researchers, practitioners and students dedicated to improving the care of older adults,...

Nursing Support for Families of Dying Patients What are the feelings and needs of families of patients dying on acute hospital wards? Are they adequately managed? How do...

Oncotalk Website designed to assist medical professionals with the difficult conversations around dying and end of life care. It contains...

Optimising the role and value of the interdisciplinary team: Providing person-centred end of life care Effective interdisciplinary teamwork, with its emphasis on person-centred communication, is increasingly seen as a way of...

Orienting Ourselves to Hospice Palliative Care Work This short video scenario is intended as a reflective tool to help health care providers be centred and culturally-sensitive...

The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Social Work Comprehensive, evidence-informed text that addresses the needs of professionals who provide interdisciplinary, culturally...

A Pan-Canadian Clinical Practice Guideline: Assessment of Psychosocial Health Care Needs of the Adult Cancer Patient This guideline provides professional health care providers with recommendations regarding the routine, systematic, and standardized...

Parenting After the Death of a Child: A Practitioner's Guide In the aftermath of the death of a child, parents face the challenge of not only dealing with their own grief, but also that...