Tools for Practice

Presntation by Susan Blacker, RSW, MSW at the NICE (National Institute for the Care of the Elderly) Knowledge Exchange Conference 2012.

The HOPE questions described in this article provide a guide for spirituality assessment.
As published in American Family Physician, 2001...

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

The author discusses the challenges he experienced when caring for a terminally ill family member. Very practical suggestions for health...

Complicated Grief in Canada: Exploring the Client and Professional Landscape
Marney R. Thompson, Allyson D. Whiteman, Karen D. Loucks, and ...

None of us likes to think about what our last days will be like. But if we do think about...

First Nations, Inuit and Métis share stories about living with serious illness and grief in over 170 short video clips....

In this video Aboriginal Elders and community members describe the diversity of protocol that First Nations follow when a community...

Eight years have passed since the first edition of The Handbook of Psychiatry in Palliative Medicine was published. In...

Dr. Wolfelt, a respected grief educator, presents a model for grief counseling based on his "companioning" principles.