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Health care directives / Living wills - see Advanced care planning

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Government / group reports

The 2015 Quality of Death Index Ranking Palliative Care Across the World: key findings inforgraphic This infographic summarizes the findings of The Quality of Death Index which was devised and constructed by the Economist...

The 2015 Quality of Death Index: Ranking of Palliative Care Across the World (2nd Ed.) The Quality of Death Index was devised and constructed by an Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). The 2015 Index evaluates...

Access to Care at the End of Life: Encounters between home care nurses and family caregivers A research report out of the University of Victoria. The purpose of the study was to gain a better understanding of how home...

Access to Palliative Care in Canada This is the first time Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) is releasing a comprehensive report on access to...

Access to Palliative Care: A Neglected Component of the Right to Health A Report on the Human Rights Council Side Event. On June 6, 2011, in conjunction with the 17th session of the...

Action Plan on Palliative Care: Building on the Framework on Palliative Care in Canada This Action Plan lays out Health Canada's five-year plan to tackle issues uncovered through the development of the Framework.

Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer: A System Performance Report A report by the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (CPAC) centres on adolescents and young adults with cancer and reveals...

Advance Care Planning Evaluation in Elderly Patients The ACCEPT study evaluated the quantity and quality of ACP from the perspective of over 500 patients and family members in...

Advancing Collective Priorities: A Canadian Carer Strategy This report has been developed to showcase the progress made and outline the policies and practice initiatives that support...

Advancing High Quality, High Value Palliative Care in Ontario This report is the result of a collaborative effort of stakeholders across Ontario that outlines the steps needed to make...

Program development / Standards and norms

The 2015 Quality of Death Index Ranking Palliative Care Across the World: key findings inforgraphic This infographic summarizes the findings of The Quality of Death Index which was devised and constructed by the Economist...

The 2015 Quality of Death Index: Ranking of Palliative Care Across the World (2nd Ed.) The Quality of Death Index was devised and constructed by an Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). The 2015 Index evaluates...

Access to Palliative Care in Canada This is the first time Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) is releasing a comprehensive report on access to...

Access to Palliative Care: A Neglected Component of the Right to Health A Report on the Human Rights Council Side Event. On June 6, 2011, in conjunction with the 17th session of the...

Action Plan on Palliative Care: Building on the Framework on Palliative Care in Canada This Action Plan lays out Health Canada's five-year plan to tackle issues uncovered through the development of the Framework.

Advancing Collective Priorities: A Canadian Carer Strategy This report has been developed to showcase the progress made and outline the policies and practice initiatives that support...

Bill C-277: Framework on Palliative Care in Canada Act This enactment provides for the development of a framework designed to support improved access for Canadians to palliative...

The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying An exquisite memoir about how to live—and love—every day with “death in the room,” from poet Nina Riggs, mother of two young...

Canada Bereavement Registry Helping the bereaved by stopping direct mail and phone calls to the deceased. On average, a deceased person will continue...

Death By Design (podcast) We must become the designer of our own destination. We must learn how to build the pathways to our last chapter by creating...

Indigenous people

Interdisciplinary practice

International

Long term care

Medication reference guides

Other

Palliative care emergencies

Pediatrics

Professional associations

Prognostication / Care in the final days

Psychosocial care