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Health care directives / Living wills - see Advanced care planning

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Spirituality

Completing the Circle: Youth and Grieving This video conveys stories of bereaved youth and traditional responses from Aboriginal elders. We hope this video will help...

Cultural & Spiritual Sensitivity: A Learning Module for Health Care Professionals A self-learning module to understand one's own cultural and spiritual beliefs and to assist in providing culturally sensitive...

Dancing with Broken Bones: Poverty, Race, and Spirit-filled Dying in the Inner City Moller is a sociologist who takes us into the world of the urban poor;

Death and Dying: An Islamic Perspective This presentation from the Spiritual Care Summit 09 outlines Muslim perspectives on dying, death, and life after death.

Death and Dying: Life and Living, 6th ed. This book helps you learn to cope with encounters with death, dying, and bereavement. The authors integrate classical and...

Developing Spiritual Care Capacity for Hospice Palliative Care: A Canadian Curricular Resource (version 1.0) This is a link to the Canadian Hospice and Palliative Care Association marketplace where education materials are available...

A Dictionary of Patients’ Spiritual and Cultural Values for Healthcare Professionals A general guide meant to describe beliefs and practices generally found within a particular cultural or religious group.

Dignity in Care Dignity in Care provides practical ideas and tools to support a culture of compassion and respect throughout the health care...

Dignity Therapy: Final Words for Final Days An introduction to Dr Chochinov's pioneering and innovative work related to dignity therapy, this book provides the history,...

Draft Spiritual Support and Bereavement Care Quality Markers and Measures for End of Life Care The content of this document published by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Evidence (NICE) has been drafted...