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Advance care planning / Decision making

Assessment tools

Clinical practice guidelines

Communication

Complementary therapies

Critical care

Culture

Diseases

Dying at home

Education

Ethics

Evidence databases

Grief and bereavement

Health care directives / Living wills - see Advanced care planning

Hospice and palliative care

General

Dying Declarations: Notes From a Hospice Volunteer An invitation to explore the field of hospice care, including the philosophical perspectives of Hospice and palliative care...

Dying, Dignity, and New Horizons in Palliative End-of-Life Care This article provides an overview of the physical, psychosocial, existential and spiritual challenges that people will face...

Early Palliative Care - Improving Quality of Life 4 minute video clip explains the value of palliative care within cancer care. In Canada there is not a difference between...

Early Palliative Care for Patients with Metastatic Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer Study released August 19, 2010 in the New England Journal of Medicine found that palliative care not only improved quality...

eHospice A free app and website that brings you international news, intelligence, commentary, and analysis on hospice palliative and...

End-of-Life Care: A Nurse's Guide to Compassionate Care This sensitively written book offers a wealth of insight and practical advice for nurses in every specialty and setting providing...

Essentials in Hospice and Palliative Care: A Practical Resource for Every Nurse This textbook is targeted to nurses in all care settings. It provides practical and hands on information around providing...

Faces of Caring Faces of Caring is a community to share deeply human stories, advice, and resources for facing serious illness. It harnesses...

Family Perspectives: Death and Dying in Canada This document examines the evolution of death and dying in Canada across generations, the desires and realities of families...

Framework on Palliative Care in Canada In late 2017, the Act Providing for the Development of a Framework on Palliative Care in Canada was passed by Parliament...

Government / group reports

Program development / Standards and norms

Palliative Care Health Services Delivery Framework - Frequently Asked Questions This Frequently Asked Questions document accompanies the Palliative Care Health Services Delivery Framework produced by the...

Palliative Care Health Services Delivery Framework: Recommendations for a Model of Care to Improve Palliative Care in Ontario - Focus Area 1: Adults Receiving Care in Community Settings The Ontario Palliative Care Network has developed a model of care to improve palliative care services. It applies to services...

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...

The Public Health Approach to Palliative Care: Principles, Models, and International Perspectives A White Paper commissioned by the BC Centre for Palliative Care to provide an evidence base for the effectiveness of the...

QELCCC - Blueprint for action 2020-2025 Quality End-of-Life Care Coalition of Canada. (2020, March). Blueprint for action 2020-2025: progress report. The report...

Redefining palliative care – A new consensus-based definition This paper, published in the Journal or Pain and Symptom Management, presents the 3-phased consensus based approach behind...

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...

Serious Illness Care Program: Reference Guide for Clinicians We know that individuals who have conversations with their clinicians about their values, goals and wishes are more likely...

Shift your care to a palliative approach (infographic) Not all patients will require care provided by specialized palliative programs but they can still benefit from a palliative...

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