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ABC of Palliative Care This brand new edition of ABC of Palliative Care pulls together the most up-to-date information on this complex, multidisciplinary...

Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer: A System Performance Report A report by the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (CPAC) centres on adolescents and young adults with cancer and reveals...

African American Outreach Guide Free online outreach guides for health care providers to enhance access and palliative care in these diverse communities.

Anxiety in Palliative Care - Causes and Diagnosis (#186) Online fact sheet outlining potential causes and diagnosis for palliative 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...

Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death Using a Buddhist approach to death, the author affirms that we can open and contact our inner strength, and that we can help...

Bereavement Volunteer Handbook This handbook was developed by the staff and volunteers working with Palliative Manitoba to guide volunteers working in bereavement...

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...

Brain Tumour Care: Supporting Patients & Caregivers Through the Care Trajectory This interactive one hour module provides information for healthcare providers on supporting brain tumour patients and their...

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...