CARES Toolkit: End-of-Life Cases and Resources
The CARES Toolkit is a collection of interprofessional and discipline specific End-of-Life Cases and Resources on aging, serious illness, death, and dying curriculum topics. This evidence-based, patient-centered education and training program works to ensure that the future healthcare workforce has the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to continue to improve serious illness and end-of-life care for all patients and families.
Elder Care Interprofessional Provider Sheets
Elder Care Interprofessional Provider Fact Sheets are engaging, single page, practical, and evidence-based sheets that synthesize key concepts in care for older adults. Our compendium of over 100 topics includes common geriatric syndromes and age-associated diseases and conditions. Replete with screening, assessment, and treatment tools, these sheets reinforce sound geriatric practice in an easy, free, and approachable format. Our interprofessional editorial board assures the content is relevant for all healthcare providers.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Pinkbook
At Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospitals, we take pride in creating a number of pocket clinical resources for our clinicians. The Pink Book is updated every other year by the BWH/DFCI Pain Management Tables and Guidelines Committee - consisting of DFCI palliative care pharmacists, physicians, and nurse practitioners.
Goals For Care Training For Practitioners
The National Cener For Ethics In Health provides practitioners with a training guide on goals of care conversations including CPR outcome facts and discussions. This training guide can be useful in discussing the realities of survival rates and prognoses with families of patients who have experienced CPR. It can serve as a tool for practitioners in discussing options with families who may not know about common CPR outcomes.
Sesame Workshop
Sesame Street Workshop on grief is an interactive online resource of videos and educational tools on how to help children process the pain and loss of grief. Grieving may never completely end, but working through difficult feelings can get easier with time. Through support, open conversations, and finding ways to keep the person’s memory alive, families can begin to heal.
Kids Grief
KidsGrief.ca is a free online resource that helps parents support their children when someone in their life is dying or has died. It equips parents with the words and confidence needed to help children grieve life’s losses in healthy ways.
Living My Culture
Quality palliative care helps you honour your culture, spirituality and traditions. At LivingMyCulture.ca, people from various cultures share their stories and wisdom about living with serious illness, end of life and grief to support others.
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.
Quality of Life Scale
Pet quality of life scales are used to determine on a numeric basis how your pet is feeling. A QOL quiz helps you address different variables in your pet’s life to assess their overall comfort and happiness. Quality of life scales are typically used when a pet has a terminal illness or is at an end of life stage.
About The Organization: Journeys Home Pet Euthanasia LLC is an at-home pet euthanasia service that also has a lot of great information on euthanasia and assessing quality of life in pets.
Checklists For End-of-Life Planning
Women's Institute for Secure Retirement offers a checklist of documents and other materials needed for end-of-life planning. The list includes