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
Mortician Shows Every Step a Body Goes Through at a Funeral Home
Victor M. Sweeney, a licensed funeral director and mortician, gives a tour of a funeral home in Minnesota. From the intricate processes and tools used to embalm a body to the "selection room" filled with caskets and urns, this unique tour gives unprecedented access to a mortuary and funeral chapel. 13:58 min
Understanding The Dying Process: An Information Booklet For Families
This booklet has been compiled to help answer some difficult questions that you may have about the dying process. It is important to remember that just as each person is unique so too will be their death. It is almost impossible to tell you the exact time or manner in which a person will die. However, regardless of the illness, there are several similar physical symptoms and emotional changes likely to occur as death approaches.
Center for Bioethics Ethics Grand Rounds Webinar Series
The Center for Bioethics Ethics Grand Rounds is made up of academic webinars regarding the ethics and implications around medical aid-in-dying.
VitalTalk's Guide For Clinicians On Patient Centered Communication
Clinicians and advanced practice providers alike leave our courses feeling more confident in their ability to deliver serious news and discuss goals of care. Upon completion, you’ll become part of the deeply committed VitalTalk community which offers continued support, including additional train-the-trainer Faculty Development programs, so you can further integrate better communication skills at your institution.
VitalTalk resource guides include:
Grief Reactions, Duration, and Tasks of Mourning
This Whole Health tool focuses on grief related to a death loss. A focus on other types of losses (such as disability, divorce, job loss, effects of natural disasters) is beyond the scope of Coping with Grief and related tools. However, you may find the information in this Whole Health tool helpful when working with a Veteran who has experienced a loss other than death.
UT Health San Antonio Resources On Delivering Bad News
This video series from UT Health San Antonio provides shortened examples of how healthcare professionals should/shouldn't handle encounters regarding the delivery of difficult news. Useful for healthcare providers looking for simple guides for best practice in such situations.