Grief, Bereavement, and Coping With Loss (PDQ)
Health care providers will encounter bereaved individuals throughout their personal and professional lives.[1] Individual diversity, family and social networks, and micro- and macrocultural influences contribute to the way one experiences and expresses grief. The progression from advanced cancer to death is experienced in different ways by different people.
Standards for Palliative and End of Life Care From The National Association Of Social Workers
All social workers, regardless of practice settings, will inevitably work with clients facing acute or long-term situations involving life-limiting illness, dying, death, grief, and bereavement.
Using their expertise in working with populations from varying cultures, ages, socioeconomic status, and nontraditional families, social workers help families across the life span in coping with trauma, suicide, and death, and must be prepared to assess such needs and intervene appropriately.
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".
Minnesota Death Collaborative
The Minnesota Death Collaborative (MNDC) is a network that provides an array of resources in the Minnesota region for individuals dealing with grief, dying, disability, palliative and hospice care concerns. Videos, support groups, fact sheets and more are avaiable on this website.
Fostering Grief Ready Workplaces: A Starter Kit for Mental Health and School Mental Health Leadership
A note from Mental Health Technology:
"We developed this guide with two hopes:
What Is Palliative Care? Videos From Jared Rubenstein MD
This resource offers a set of videos aimed at healthcare workers that cover various aspects of palliative care.
Examples include:
Dying in America. Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences Near the End of Life
Dying in America evaluates strategies to integrate care into a person- and family-centered, team-based framework, and makes recommendations to create a system that coordinates care and supports and respects the choices of patients and their families.
Complimentary Education Programs From The Hospice Foundation
These free Hospital Foundation of America programs are useful resources for hospice and grief professionals, hospice volunteers, grief support groups, or the broader community.Resource includes webinars and self-study programs. Many programs are freely available, though without CE credit. CE credit is available with program purchase.
The Grief Channel From Good Grief
Welcome to The Grief Channel, dedicated to normalizing conversations around grief, death and dying. Grief can be incredibly tough, but is a natural part of life and can be transformative, instead of being something to be feared and locked away. Our mission is to share knowledge, research and stories that people can relate to, and to provide solace and support. Content comes from Good Grief Festival, which, since its launch in October 2020, has reached over 25,000 people in the UK around the world.