A Toolkit For Kids On Grief From The Dougy Center
When you're grieving, everything can feel upside down. Sometimes it can help to talk, write, draw, or act out your feelings. Get some pencils, markers, or crayons and find a spot you feel comfortable. If you need help, want a hug/high-five, have questions, or just want to talk about it with someone, be sure to ask one of your adults.
A Comprehensive List Of Resources For Children, Families and Communities On Grief, Death and Dying From The Dougy Center
About this resource: Below are toolkits from the Dougy Center on grief, death and dying, and are tailored for kids, teens, families, caregivers and helping professionals. Click the titles to discover each toolkit. Links to each toolkit are also available at the bottom of this page. Toolkits are available in Spanish. Individual toolkits are also searchable separately on the Death, Dying and End of Life's library.
Understanding death, grief and mourning: a resource manual
"Understanding death, grief and mourning: a resource manual" provides help for adults, teens, children, and those impacted by grief/bereavement associated with suicide and murder.
About the organization: Cornerstone of Hope is a nonprofit comprehensive bereavement support center, guided by Christian values of compassion and service, serving children, teens, and adults who have experienced the death of a loved one.
Hospice- Determining Terminal Status; Coverage Indications, Limitations, And/Or Medical Necessity
Medicare coverage of hospice depends on a physician’s certification that an individual’s prognosis is a life expectancy of six months or less if the terminal illness runs its normal course. This LCD describes guidelines to be used by National Government Services (NGS) in reviewing hospice claims and by hospice providers to determine eligibility of beneficiaries for hospice benefits. Although guidelines applicable to certain disease categories are included, this LCD is applicable to all hospice patients.
Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services On Hospice Coverage, Levels Of Care, Coinsurance, And Hospital Quality And Reporting Program
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) offers information to patients and families about medicare and medicaid hospice benefits. General information, types of hospice care and insurance coverage options can be found here. CMS also offers downloadable resources on their website available in Spanish.
Addressing the Spiritual Care Needs of Patients with Serious Illness
Spiritual care contributes to the well-being of patients and the people who matter to them, by addressing spiritual and existential pain. Though not all patients are affiliated with formal religious structures and systems, many still struggle with questions about miracles, spiritual etiologies of disease, and how to make meaning out of suffering.
Chaplains provide expert interventions to explore these areas and bring meaning and healing - for patients, for the people who matter to them, and for the palliative care team.
Achieving Health Equity
Certain populations suffer disproportionately in the face of serious illness, whether because of race, geography, income, sexual orientation, gender identity, culture, trauma history, or any of the myriad factors that impact patient care and patient experience. Health professionals have a unique opportunity to lead in achieving health equity by establishing trust and alleviating suffering for traditionally oppressed or excluded patients.
Serious Illness And Palliative Care From The Better Care Playbook
Adults with serious illness have one or more conditions, such as cancer or dementia, that cause health and functional decline and, over time, eventually lead to death. People with serious illness require effective patient-clinician communication about quality of life, goals of care, and advance directives, along with access to palliative and hospice care that is well coordinated with medical care, behavioral health, and personal care needs.
Grief & Contemporary Grief Theories
Although research subjects have not traditionally included autistic adults, understanding current grief theory can be helpful to any professional working with any grieving individual. Perhaps most importantly, professionals should absolve themselves of the notion that grief occurs in stages. This theory was developed in the 1960s by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, a pioneer in the field of death and dying. She based her work exclusively on observations of people with terminal illness who were grieving the pending loss of their own lives.
Association for Pet Loss Bereavement Support Resources
Association for Pet Loss Bereavement Support Resources provides a wide variety of resources on coping with pet loss, including reading resources for caregivers, veterinary support group opportunities, and training modules.