Goals of Care Conversations Training for Physicians, Advance Practice Nurses, & Physician Assistants
This training program consists of flexible, interactive modules to help practitioners improve their skills in delivering serious news and discussing goals of care and life-sustaining treatment decisions with seriously ill patients. It is intended for practitioners who care for patients with serious illness in outpatient, inpatient, long-term care, and home care settings.
Grief, Bereavement, and Coping With Loss (PDQ)
Health care providers will encounter bereaved individuals throughout their personal and professional lives.[1] Individual diversity, family and social networks, and micro- and macrocultural influences contribute to the way one experiences and expresses grief. The progression from advanced cancer to death is experienced in different ways by different people.
Standards for Palliative and End of Life Care From The National Association Of Social Workers
All social workers, regardless of practice settings, will inevitably work with clients facing acute or long-term situations involving life-limiting illness, dying, death, grief, and bereavement.
Using their expertise in working with populations from varying cultures, ages, socioeconomic status, and nontraditional families, social workers help families across the life span in coping with trauma, suicide, and death, and must be prepared to assess such needs and intervene appropriately.
National Association Of School Psychologists Resources On Addressing Grief
Facts and tips on grief for children are provided below:
National Alliance For Children's Grief
The death of a family member, friend, or other significant person is a lifelong loss for children. It is important to note that grief reactions in children are varied, wide-ranging, and unique to each individual. These resources were created as a tool for those supporting a child who is grieving, and we encourage you to use and share them freely. If you are seeking direct support, please visit our Find Support page. To print any resource, you must select "download" in the bottom right corner and then print. Resources are also available in Spanish.
Physician-Assisted Death: Scanning the Landscape (Proceedings of a Workshop)
The question of whether and under what circumstances terminally ill patients should be able to access life-ending medications with the aid of a physician is receiving increasing attention as a matter of public opinion and of public policy. Ethicists, clinicians, patients, and their families debate whether physician-assisted death ought to be a legal option for patients.
Improving Access to and Equity of Care for People with Serious Illness: A Workshop
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that approximately 40 million people in the United States suffer from a serious illness that limits their daily activities. These illnesses include heart and lung disease, cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. However, significant disparities exist across different communities in the quality and access to care for these illnesses. Factors such as race, ethnicity, gender, geography, socioeconomic status, or insurance status exacerbate these complex disparities.
Decoding the Unspoken Ways We Communicate
Each of us has 43 muscles in our face, and we use those muscles to create 10,000 unique combinations of expressions — all of which subtly convey important information to other people during conversations, explains computer scientist Ehsan Hoque. Our physical gestures, language, and tone of voice add further layers of complexity.
Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious Illness
The Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious Illness fosters ongoing dialogue about improving care for people of all ages facing all stages of serious illness. To that end, the Roundtable’s work and activities focus on five priority areas: delivery of person-centered, family-oriented care; communication and advance care planning; professional education and development; policies and payment systems; and public education and engagement.