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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...

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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 end-of-life...

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Palliative Care Guide for the Deaf Community

A series of 6 videos which provided information (verbal and ASL) related to palliative care from time of diagnosis until death.

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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...

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Facing Death (Frontline documentary)

Facing Death (Frontline documentary)
PBS Broadcast "Facing Death" - Available to view on-line

This documentary takes a closer look at today's complicated end-of-life...

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MyGrief.ca

MyGrief.ca is an online resource to help people work through their grief from the comfort of their own home, at...

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Being Mortal

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

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Faces of Caring

Faces of Caring is a community to share deeply human stories, advice, and resources for facing serious illness. It harnesses...

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Mortally Wounded: Stories of Soul Pain, Death and Healing

A hospice physician relates his experiences working with those close to death, and asserts that the dying process can be...

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Living with a terminal illness

This brochure was created by Centre for Education and Research on Aging & Health-Improving End-of-Life Care in First Nations Communities....

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