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Advance care planning / Decision making

Caregiver and caregiving

Children - About

Children - For

Communication

Complementary therapies

Culture

Death and dying

Decision making - see Advance care planning

Diseases

Education

Emotions

Ethics

Family

Financial considerations

Finding health information

Funerals and memorials

Government/group reports

Grief and bereavement

Health care directives - see Advance care planning

Hospice and palliative care

Indigenous people

International

Online Resources

Improving Access to Palliative Care (infographic) Available in many languages including French.

Integrated Palliative Care This text is an account of integrated palliative care, illustrated by real-life international stories from patients and family...

International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care An international organization that seeks to increase the availability and access to high quality Hospice and palliative care...

Life Before Death (information about pain management) Short video clips with palliative care experts from around the world addressing some of the common myths around opioid pain...

Marie Curie: Care and Support Through Terminal Illness This website offers helpful information and guidance to patients and families living with terminal illness. This website...

MedlinePlus MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information...

Palliative Care - Fact Sheet This fact sheet supports the World Health Organization's goal to improve access to palliative care as a core component of...

Palliative Care and Human Rights for Older Persons (Public Health Fact Sheet) This fact sheet examines the growing need for older persons’ palliative care, the distinct and specific palliative care and...

Palliative Care and Universal Health Coverage Fact Sheet Fact sheet on Universal Health Coverage and palliative care developed by WHPCA, IAHPC and ICPCN, based on the findings of...

Palliative Care: Transforming the Care of Serious Illness (lecture) Leffert Lecture, December 2014, Massachusetts General Hospital, presented by Dr Diane Meir, Department of Geriatrics and...