Palliative Care
Journals
E-Books
Print Books
- Being Mortal: medicine and what matters in the end
- The Best Way to Say Goodbye: A Legal Peaceful Choice at the End of Life
- Changing the way we die : compassionate end-of-life care and the hospice movement
- Cicely Saunders Selected Writings 1958-2004
- Clinician's Handbook of Symptoms Relief in Palliative Care (Amazon)
- The Divine Art of Dying: How to Live Well While Dying 2014
- Introducing Palliative Care
- Knocking on Heaven's Door : the Path to a Better Way of Death
- Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine
- Palliative aspects of emergency care
- Palliative Care: a patient-centered approach
- Palliative Care Perspectives
- Research Methods in Palliative Care
- When Breath Becomes Air
Websites
Definitions
Advance Care Planning
- Advance Directives NCI)
- Communication with Your Family and Your Doctor about Your Wishes (ACEP)
- Conversations Before the Crisis (NHPCO)
- Conversations for Life Programme
- End of Life Choices - CPR and DNR (FCA)
- If You or Someone You Love is Very Ill... Ask Tough Questions (NHPCO)
- MOLST (MA)
- MOLST (MD)
- MOLST (NY)
- National Institute on Aging
- POLST
- Stanford Letter Project
- Take Charge!
- Talking about End-of-life Treatment Decisions (AHRQ)
Specific Conditions
- Artificial Hydration and Nutrition (AAFP)
- Food and Fluid Issues at End of Life (HPNA)
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) (AAFP)
- End of Life Choices - Feeding Tubes and Ventilators (FCA)
- End of Life: Caring for a Dying Loved One (Mayo)
- How Can an Emergency Department Assist Patients and Caregivers at the End of Life? (ACEP)
- Things to Do After Someone Dies (NIA)
- What Happens When Someone Dies? (NIA)
- When You Have Pain at the End-of-Life (ACP)
Children
Patient Handouts
Videos
Associations
- Alzheimer’s Association
- American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM)
- Center to Advance Palliative Care
- European Association for Palliative Care
- Family Caregiver Alliance
- Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA)
- Hospice Foundation of America
- National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization
- National Institute of Nursing Research
Coping
Research
Related Issues
Directories
Patient Financial Issues
Stanford Grand Rounds
- Good Communication is Not Magic: An Empirical Approach to Talking with Seriously Ill Patients
- A Wise Choice: Palliative Sedation for Refractory Pain and Suffering at the End-of-Life
- The Two Minute Drill: Tools for Conducting Crucial Conversations
- Integrating Palliative Care into Out-Patient Cancer Care
Stanford Palliative on YouTube
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Write your bucket list today: It is free, easy and extremely important.
Can We Talk?: An interview with Dr. Stephanie Pincus, Institute of Medicine on End-of-life care
Self Care: What doctors do
National Hospice on YouTube
We Honor Veterans
NHPCO Town Hall 2018
My Hospice: Rudy’s Story
Warriors: Their Relationship to Death and Dying
PubMed
- Experiences of substitute decision makers in making decisions for older persons diagnosed with major neurocognitive disorder at end of life: a qualitative systematic review protocol.
- Populations and Interventions for Palliative and End-of-Life Care: A Systematic Review.
- Attitudes Toward Use of Benzodiazepines among U.S. Hospice Clinicians: Survey and Review of the Literature.
Recommended
- A Practical Guide to Improving End-of-Life Care
- Community Discussions: A Vision for Cutting the Costs of End-of-Life
- Courage, Leadership, and End-of-Life Care: When Courage Counts
- Early Palliative Care for Patients with Metastatic Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer. Temel et al.
- In the End, it May Not Be About Medicine (Reuters Health)
- More Visits from Hospice May Allow Death at Home (Reuters Health)
- On a mission to transform end-of-life care (SCOPE)
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