Books, Links, and More

We've compiled resources in both French and English, to give you the broadest possible range of available information. To see resources in French, click in the top right corner of the page.

If you have a favourite palliative care resource that doesn't appear here, suggest a resource below.

Search Resources

Suggest a Resource

2SLGBTQ+

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

Living wills - see Advance care planning

Living with illness

Medical assistance in dying (MAiD)

Multicultural - see Culture

Nutrition - see Symptoms - Lack of appetite / weight loss

Personal stories

Persons with disabilities

Quality of life

Sexuality

Spirituality

Symptoms

Teens - About

Books

DVDs/Video

Online Resources

Helping Children Cope With Grief Parents, caregivers and educators wondering how they can help will find many answers to their questions in the following...

Helping Teens Cope With Grief This short article discusses important information related to teenagers who have experienced the death of someone close to...

Holiday Toolkit: Supporting Grieving Children During the Season of Family Developed by the National Alliance for Grieving Children, this holiday toolkit is provided with the hopes it will provide...

Interprofessional education in palliative and end of life care course free modules These modules teach fundamental clinical communication skills taken from the full de Souza Interprofessional Education in...

Kids Help Phone: Teens Canada's toll-free, 24-hour, bilingual and anonymous phone counselling, referral and Internet service for children and youth.

Kids Konnected: Cancer Support & Information Kids Konnected was developed on the premise that when a parent gets cancer, the entire family is affected and the needs of...

Little Stars: Accomplishing the Extraordinary in the Face of Serious Illness Little Stars tells the surprisingly life-affirming stories of young people living with life-limiting illnesses. Against the...

livingoutloud.life (website) Young adults and teens are shattering the silence of living and dying with advanced illness by creating a webspace of their...

Loss, grief and growth: Educational project inc. Intended to help educators support students in their classroom who have experiences involving loss and grief, particularly...

Parenting Through Illness & Grief This one page handout provides an overview of the findings from a research study of parent caregivers. The study was conducted...