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Fast Facts Sheets Regarding Medical Examiners Role And Supporting Community Members To Understand Factors For After-Death Planning

Every coroner or medical examiner in office on or after July 1st, 2015 in the state of Minnesota must maintain and make publicly available a statement of policy or principles to be used for communicating with families during a death investigation.

Medical Aid-In-Dying

Medical Aid-In-Dying discusses the ethical and legal issues surrounding the practice of physician-assisted death (MAiD), where a doctor provides a patient with lethal medication at their request to end their life. It highlights that while most states prohibit MAiD, a few have legalized it, and debates continue within the medical and legal communities. The article emphasizes that state-of-the-art palliative care should be the primary approach to end-of-life suffering, with MAiD considered only as a last resort.

Fatal Flaws: The Assisted Death Debate (Euthanasia Documentary)

Should we be giving doctors the right to end the lives of others by euthanasia or assisted suicide? Fatal Flaws: Legalizing Assisted Death is a thought-provoking journey through Europe and North America to find answers to this question. Some 20 years after these laws were introduced, evensome of the most loyal supporters of assisted dyingare questioning where these laws are taking us. The grandfather of euthanasia in the Netherlands, Dr.

To End Our Days: The Social, Legal and Political Dimensions of the End-of-Life Debate

In recent years, legislatures and courts, religious leaders and scientists, citizens and patient advocates have all weighed in on end-of-life issues ranging from whether the terminally ill should have the right to take their own lives to how much treatment and sustenance those in the last stages of life should receive.

Pathways Center for Grief & Loss Resource List

Pathways Center for Grief & Loss provides resources of vidoes, reading lists and handouts on a wide variety of grief & loss topics.  

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Palliative Care Fast Facts and Concepts

Palliative Care Fast Facts and Concepts provides concise, practical, peer-reviewed and evidence-based summaries on key palliative care topics important to clinicians and trainees caring for patients facing serious illness.  They have around 500 topics covered, and they are searchable by keyword.   To navigate this, go to fast facts, then the fast facts directory to be able to search by keyword.

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Two Dozen Curated Articles to Shape Primary Care Policy and Practice

The Primary Care Collaborative has assembled a set of 24 primary care health services research (HSR) and primary care patient-centered outcomes research/comparative effectiveness research (clinical) articles through the work of a Research Dissemination Workgroup (RDWG) and research partner, the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG). The PCC selected 12 clinical and 12 health services research articles for the final list. The goal is to inform and shape the thinking of practice and policy leaders with respect to primary care clinical and health services research.

GAPNA Chat Podcast

GAPNA Chat provides interviews and discussions with GAPNA leaders and members of the gerontological health care community, and will focus on advocacy, policy, education, professional development, research, and clinical care for older adults. GAPNA Chat is an official podcast of the Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association (GAPNA).

Source: Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association, 2022

Toolkit for Creating Person-Centered Care and Service Plans

The resources in this toolkit provide practical ideas for improving the care planning process. The first set of practice-oriented resources is for professionals who develop and write care and service plans while the "Policy and Practice" document provides recommendations geared toward policymakers and health plan officials.