Kubler-Ross Stages of Dying and Subsequent Models of Grief
Medical professionals will work with dying patients in all disciplines, and the process is difficult as care shifts from eliminating or mitigating illness to preparing for death. This is a difficult transition for patients, their loved ones, and healthcare providers to undergo. This activity provides paradigms for the process of moving toward death as well as a discussion of how they should and should not be applied, supporting the interprofessional team to address the unique needs of their patients and guide them and their loved ones through the process.
The Importance of Cultural Competence in Pain and Palliative Care
This activity reviews the evaluation of pain and palliative care in a culturally sensitive manner. It highlights the role of the interprofessional team in the management of pain and palliation in this setting.
Stanford Letter Project
The Stanford Letter Project tools to helps people write letters about their wishes for care in the future. These letter templates are specifically designed to help people voice the key information needed to help them prepare for the future.
Soaring Spirits
The Soaring Spirits websites provides documents for newly widowed community members and other general resources on processing the trauma of grief.
The Truth About the Five Stages of Grief
The Truth About the Five Stages of Grief provides a straightforward lens into historic and scientific studies on grief and Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's five stages of grief model. The video breaks down common assumptions on loss and shares alternative such as the dual-process model of grief. It also explains various risk trajectories associated with grief including chronic grief and chronic depression.
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.
Views on End-of-Life Medical Treatments
At a time of national debate over health care costs and insurance, a Pew Research Center survey on end-of-life decisions finds most Americans say there are some circumstances in which doctors and nurses should allow a patient to die. At the same time, however, a growing minority says that medical professionals should do everything possible to save a patient’s life in all circumstances.
Foundations of Practice for Interprofessional Age-Friendly Care
The Foundations of Practice for Interprofessional Age-Friendly Care is for healthcare professionals who are interested in developing a foundational practice for age-friendly care. It is divided into an introduction, and three short sections: The Aging Population, Models of Care and the Interprofessional Team and Age-Friendly Care.
Religious Groups’ Views on End-of-Life Issues
Pew Research outlines 16 major American religious groups that explin how their faith traditions’ teachings address physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia and other end-of-life questions.
The religions include:
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.