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Dementia

Living and Dying with Dementia: Dialogues about Palliative Care Using a narrative approach, this book explores what is known about the experience of dying with dementia and develops a model...

Maintaining the Connection: Communication Tips in Alzheimer’s Disease Animated video that reviews communication tips on how to communicate with loved ones who have Alzheimer’s disease and dementia

Marie Curie: Palliative Care Knowledge Zone This area of the website offers a range of information on palliative, end of life care to support and inform the clinical...

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,...

Non-Communicative Patient’s Pain Assessment Instrument (NOPPAIN) A US Veterans Affairs METRIC(TM) Instrument for pain assessment in the non-verbal patient. For more information, contact...

Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia Scale (PAINAD) This pain behavior tool is used to assess pain in older adults who have dementia or other cognitive impairment and are unable...

The Palliative Approach for Advanced Dementia in Long Term Care This pamphlet was made to help persons with Dementia and their families know what to expect at the end of life so they can...

Palliative Care for Non-Cancer Patients Comprehensive coverage on the current knowledge of the needs of, and appropriate care for, people dying from causes other...

PATH: A New Approach to End-of-Life Care Two physicians created the PATH (Palliative & Therapeutic Harmonization) model, a process which promotes careful consideration...

PC P.E.A.R.L.S: 7 key elements of person-centred care The Alzheimer Society of Canada aims to improve the experience of long-term care for people with dementia and their families,...

HIV / AIDS

Neurological diseases

Renal failure

Hospice and Palliative Medicine Questions This video series, Hospice and Palliative Medicine Questions (HPMQ), answers tough questions you may come across while caring...

Dying at home

Education

Ethics

Evidence databases

Grief and bereavement

Health care directives / Living wills - see Advanced care planning

Hospice and palliative care

Indigenous people

Interdisciplinary practice

International

Long term care