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Health care directives / Living wills - see Advanced care planning

Hospice and palliative care

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palliativedrugs.com The site provides essential independent information for health professionals worldwide about drugs used in palliative and...

Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog An informative and entertaining forum designed for health care providers discussing clinical studies and other topics of...

Physiotherapy in Palliative Care This presentation provides an overview of how physiotherapy in the context of palliative care can enhance quality of life.

POSTnote: palliative-and-end-of-life-care Palliative and end of life care refer to the care of people who have an incurable and progressive illness. This UK POSTnote...

A Practical Guide to Palliative Care Designed for easy use at the bedside, this manual contains the practical information health care professionals need to provide...

Pregnancy and Infant Loss Summit Recommendations This executive summary represents a condensed version of the recommendations put forward by the speakers at the 2016 Pregnancy...

Resilience in Palliative Care: Achievement in Adversity This book takes the increasing international literature on resilience and applies it to palliative and end-of-life care.

A Resource Guide for Community Development of Palliative and End-of-Life Care within Alberta Communities across Alberta are seeking information about developing local Palliative and End-of-Life Care (PEOLC) community...

Resource Guide: Hospice Palliative Care in the Bow Valley We recognize that many people in our rural Bow Valley Communities need information on hospice palliative care and how to...

Re-Thinking Palliative Care in the Community: A Change Guide Based on Dr Seow's research, this guide will help to build your community palliative care program.

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