Childhood Traumatic Grief Resources
Resources include handouts on various aspects of childhood traumatic grief in multiple languages.
Goals of Care Conversations Training for Physicians, Advance Practice Nurses, & Physician Assistants
This training program consists of flexible, interactive modules to help practitioners improve their skills in delivering serious news and discussing goals of care and life-sustaining treatment decisions with seriously ill patients. It is intended for practitioners who care for patients with serious illness in outpatient, inpatient, long-term care, and home care settings.
National Association Of School Psychologists Resources On Addressing Grief
National Association Of School Psychologists provides a broad set of resources on addressing grief and aspects common in children grieving. The website also provides related resources on responding to and supporting anticipatory rief, addressing grief in children, and how to cope as a caregiver providing support to someone gieving.
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National Alliance For Children's Grief
The death of a family member, friend, or other significant person is a lifelong loss for children. It is important to note that grief reactions in children are varied, wide-ranging, and unique to each individual.
These resources were created as a tool for those supporting a child who is grieving, and we encourage you to use and share them freely. If you are seeking direct support, please visit our Find Support page.
To print any resource, you must select "download" in the bottom right corner and then print. Resources are also available in Spanish.
Physician-Assisted Death: Scanning the Landscape (Proceedings of a Workshop)
The question of whether and under what circumstances terminally ill patients should be able to access life-ending medications with the aid of a physician is receiving increasing attention as a matter of public opinion and of public policy. Ethicists, clinicians, patients, and their families debate whether physician-assisted death ought to be a legal option for patients.
Improving Access to and Equity of Care for People with Serious Illness: A Workshop
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that approximately 40 million people in the United States suffer from a serious illness that limits their daily activities. These illnesses include heart and lung disease, cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. However, significant disparities exist across different communities in the quality and access to care for these illnesses. Factors such as race, ethnicity, gender, geography, socioeconomic status, or insurance status exacerbate these complex disparities.
Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious Illness
The Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious Illness fosters ongoing dialogue about improving care for people of all ages facing all stages of serious illness. To that end, the Roundtable’s work and activities focus on five priority areas: delivery of person-centered, family-oriented care; communication and advance care planning; professional education and development; policies and payment systems; and public education and engagement.
MyHealthPriorities: Identifying My Health Priorities
MyHealthPriorities: Identifying My Health Priorities is a tool for patients to prioritize what is important to them, which can be shared with health care teams. MyHealthPriorities was created to help people (together with their caregivers if desired) discover what matters most to them and to help identify their Health Priorities in order to make better care decisions with their health care team. Requires either creation of free account or can sign in as "guest".
Canadian Virtual Hospice Resources
Canadian Virtual Hospice provides over 28 modules paired with videos on palliative and end-of-life care topics. The topics are designed to be facillitated for patients and their family members from the comfort of their home. The website also provides support groups, testimonials, and learning tools for professionals.
What Is Palliative Care?
Minnesota Network of Hospice & Palliative Care Resources
MNHPC offers resources documents and links to individuals and families as well as to health care professionals. These materials are provided for informational purposes. Please note that MNHPC has not made any determination about the quality or efficacy and does not endorse any information, service, product, or company represented in the links provided. Consumers and healthcare professionals should use their own judgement about the quality and necessity of information/products/services available.