Patient to End-Of-Life Doula or Bedside Attendant Intake Form
Over the many years that the Academy for Medical Aid in Dying and its clinicians have been providing aid-in-dying care, we have found that having an experienced attendant at the bedside, in the days before and during the aid-in-dying procedure, is crucial.
Medical Aid in Dying: A Guide For Patients And Their Supporters
Medical Aid in Dying: A Guide for Patients and Their Supporters is a pdf guide from The American Clinicians Academy on Medical Aid in Dying for patients and their supporters. It originated from the questions, interests, and needs of dying patients, their families, their loved ones, and the many others who support them. Its goal is to demystify and facilitate the process of medical aid in dying. (This resource is also available for purchase in book form).
The Academy on Medical Aid in Dying also provides:
Nexus Summit 2024 Seminar Showcase: Why Should Health Systems Care About Interprofessional Education
This webinar is part of the Nexus Summit 2024 Seminar Showcase series.
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Care Partner Information Sheets
Care Partner pages are engaging and practical fact sheets on common and important issues related to aging and caring for older adults. Care Partners are anyone involved with, or responsible for the personal care of older adults. This includes family members, friends, home health aides, direct care workers, and community health workers. Available in both English and Spanish.
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.