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Advance care planning / Decision making

Assessment tools

Clinical practice guidelines

Communication

Complementary therapies

Critical care

Culture

Diseases

Dying at home

Education

Ethics

Evidence databases

Grief and bereavement

Health care directives / Living wills - see Advanced care planning

Hospice and palliative care

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99 Common Questions (And More) About Hospice Palliative Care: A Nurses Handbook, 4th ed. This handbook was written to enhance the professional caregiver’s capacity and confidence in offering hospice palliative...

Access to Palliative Care in Canada This is the first time Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) is releasing a comprehensive report on access to...

Access to Palliative Care: A Neglected Component of the Right to Health A Report on the Human Rights Council Side Event. On June 6, 2011, in conjunction with the 17th session of the...

Advancing Collective Priorities: A Canadian Carer Strategy This report has been developed to showcase the progress made and outline the policies and practice initiatives that support...

Advancing Palliative Care in Resource Limited Settings Presentation by Dr Kathleen Foley, September 2014 highlights projects around the world which offer lessons to other resource...

African Palliative Care Association This organization seeks to support and advance the presence, role and operations of palliative care across the continent...

BC Provincial Renal Agency: Conservative Care Pathway Care provided in the Kidney Care Clinics (KCC) can be thought of in 5 phases. Phases 1a and 1b are similar for all patients...

Being Mortal Gawande presents a detailed, but highly readable history of how the meaning of death has changed over the past fifty or sixty...

The Best Care Possible - A Physician's Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life Dr. Ira Byock, one of the foremost palliative-care physicians in the United States iluminates one of the most important and...

Best Practices in Palliative Care for Patients with End Stage Renal Disease: With Recommendations for the Nova Scotia Renal Program After examining best practices in renal palliative care across jurisdictions, this report provides four broad recommendations.

Government / group reports

Program development / Standards and norms

The 2015 Quality of Death Index Ranking Palliative Care Across the World: key findings inforgraphic This infographic summarizes the findings of The Quality of Death Index which was devised and constructed by the Economist...

The 2015 Quality of Death Index: Ranking of Palliative Care Across the World (2nd Ed.) The Quality of Death Index was devised and constructed by an Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). The 2015 Index evaluates...

Access to Palliative Care in Canada This is the first time Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) is releasing a comprehensive report on access to...

Access to Palliative Care: A Neglected Component of the Right to Health A Report on the Human Rights Council Side Event. On June 6, 2011, in conjunction with the 17th session of the...

Action Plan on Palliative Care: Building on the Framework on Palliative Care in Canada This Action Plan lays out Health Canada's five-year plan to tackle issues uncovered through the development of the Framework.

Advancing Collective Priorities: A Canadian Carer Strategy This report has been developed to showcase the progress made and outline the policies and practice initiatives that support...

Bill C-277: Framework on Palliative Care in Canada Act This enactment provides for the development of a framework designed to support improved access for Canadians to palliative...

The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying An exquisite memoir about how to live—and love—every day with “death in the room,” from poet Nina Riggs, mother of two young...

Canada Bereavement Registry Helping the bereaved by stopping direct mail and phone calls to the deceased. On average, a deceased person will continue...

Death By Design (podcast) We must become the designer of our own destination. We must learn how to build the pathways to our last chapter by creating...

Indigenous people

Interdisciplinary practice

International

Long term care

Medication reference guides

Other

Palliative care emergencies

Pediatrics

Professional associations

Prognostication / Care in the final days

Psychosocial care