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.
Your Conversation Starter Guide: How to talk about what matters to you and have a say in your health care.
This is a tool to help you talk about what matters to you and your wishes for the care you receive through the end of life. Talking with the important people in our life can bring us closer together. It also helps us create the foundation of a care plan that’s right for us — a plan that will be available when the need arises. The Conversation Project wants to help everyone talk about their wishes for care through the end of life, so those wishes can be understood and respected.
Autism and Grief All Professionals Program
This is a 90-minute continuing education program designed to empower social workers, nurses, paraprofessionals, speech therapists, occupational therapists, and other caring professionals in their service to adults with autism experiencing grief and loss. Expert panelists will examine the disenfranchisement that can occur for grieving people with autism and discuss ways to enfranchise them during their grief journey. The program will also address grief after non-death losses, anticipatory mourning, and how adults with autism may best be supported.
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.
Honoring Choices: A Comprehensive List Of Resources On Advanced Care Planning
Who would speak for you if you couldn’t speak for yourself? Advance Care Planning (ACP) is a process which helps you think about, talk about, and write down your preferences for future health care. While it is not an easy topic to consider, it is important for every adult 18+ to have a health care directive – a written plan for loved ones and healthcare providers to follow – so that your wishes are known in case a severe injury or illness renders you unable to communicate.
Prediction models of all-cause mortality among older adults in nursing home setting: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Few studies have meta‐analyzed different prognostic models developed for older adults, especially nursing home residents. We aimed to systematically review and meta‐analyze the performance of all published models that predicted all‐cause mortality among older nursing home residents.
GeriPal: A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional
GeriPal was created with the support of the Division of Geriatrics at the University of California. They invite the brightest minds in geriatrics, hospice, and palliative care to talk about the topics that you care most about, ranging from recently published research in the field to controversies that keep us up at night.
Categories that can be found on the podcast are noted below.
Cultural Relevance in End-of-Life Care
This resource addresses three major areas of cultural relevance in end-of-life care: cultural competency in clinical practice; advance directives; and pain management.
New and Most Used Palliative Care Prognostic Calculators From ePrognosis
This resource is designed to be a repository of published geriatric prognostic indices where clinicians can go to obtain evidence-based information on patients' prognosis. The information on ePrognosis is intended as a rough guide to inform clinicians about possible mortality outcomes. It is not intended to be the only basis for making care decisions, nor is it intended to be a definitive means of prognostication. Clinicians should keep in mind that every patient is an individual, and that many factors beyond those used in these indices may influence a patient's prognosis.
Palliative Performance Scale From ePrognosis
This resource is designed to be a repository of published geriatric prognostic indices where clinicians can go to obtain evidence-based information on patients' prognosis. The information on ePrognosis is intended as a rough guide to inform clinicians about possible mortality outcomes. It is not intended to be the only basis for making care decisions, nor is it intended to be a definitive means of prognostication. Clinicians should keep in mind that every patient is an individual, and that many factors beyond those used in these indices may influence a patient's prognosis.