Weaving Pathways Video for Providers
This video that discusses for healthcare providers end of care choices for American Indian and Alaska Natives (AIAN) communities members.
About the organization: In 2018, Honoring Choices of Minnesota approached the Center of American Indian and Minority Health (CAIMH) to collaborate on a project to increase healthcare directives in AIAN communities. CAIMH assembled AIAN students, faculty and community members to identify to create a toolkit for providers and community members.
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.
Finding Your Way Through Sudden Loss & Adversity
This resource, Finding Your Way Through Sudden Loss and Adversity, will include a variety of lessons on loss and growth as well as practical suggestions on how you can live with loss in a healthy way and grow from the experience. The workbook is broken up into three main sections that focus on living with loss, growing through loss, and preparing for loss. You can think of this workbook as a “choose your own adventure” type of resource. In other words, you do not necessarily need to read through the resource in any particular order.
Educational grief brochures
At the Highmark Caring Place, one of the questions we hear most is, "What do I say to the children?" We hear it from parents about their children; school staff who are caring for a grieving child in the classroom; mental health, social service, and medical personnel; and concerned friends and family who are trying to help a family in the midst of their grief.
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.
Exemplary Clinical Experiences in Nursing Homes
This interactive resource provides faculty in schools of nursing with guidance and resources for clinical teaching in nursing homes. It uses a framework of four key components for successful student clinical learning experiences in nursing homes:
How To Die In Oregon
In 1994 Oregon became the first state to legalize a terminally ill person's request to end his or her life with medication. At the time, only Belgium, Switzerland, and the Netherlands had legalized the practice. 'How to Die in Oregon' tell the stories of those most intimately involved with the practice today -- terminally ill Oregonians, their families, doctors, and friends -- as well as the passage of a similar law in Washington State. 1:47:09 min.
Facing Death without Religion: Secular sources like science work well for meaning making
The end of life is frightening because it’s a new experience; we don’t know where we are going. If a person is ill, dying may entail physical pain and disability. Even in the best of circumstances, we may find ourselves unable to engage in basic physical activities we used to take for granted, or facing the loss of mental acuity. And for most older people, the final years bring the loss of partners, family members, and friends who would otherwise support them at this time.