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Palliative Resources

More to Dying than meets the eye - Ted Talks

 

FETCH Campbell River - For Everything that's Community Health

Island Health Medical Assistance in Dying

Life Before Death

A Right to Care - Palliative Care for All Canadians

 

End-of-Life Care British Columbia

 

End-of-Life Law and Policy in Canada

 

BC Cancer Caregivers website 

 

Canadian Cancer Society for Caregivers

 

Red Cross Health Equipment Loan program

MOST stands for:  Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment

In an emergency or urgent situation, if you are unable to express your wishes, a MOST will help ensure your health care treatment aligns with your wishes

Canadian Virtual Hospice

Advanced Care Planning:

Life and Death Matters

 

Medical Assistance in Dying

How to Help a Grieving fiend: Refuge in Grief

 

Great interview with the founder of Zen Hospice Project - Frank Ostaseski - "a Buddhist teacher, international lecturer and a leading voice in end-of-life care". Well worth the one hour listening

Boundaries Article

Serious Illness Conversation Guide

Books:

 

Bearing the unbearable (2017)

Author: Joanne Cacciatore

 

The Power of Kindness: The unexpected benefits of leading a compassionate life (2006)

Author: Piero Ferrucci (Amazon.ca)

 

The Lonely Patient

Author:  Michael Stein, MD.

It's good for developing the "positive quality" of Empathy in regards of the experience of illness.( In the hospice library

 

Permission to Mourn

Tom Zuba (Hospice Library)

Mourning has Broken

Author: Erin Davis

 

 

 

 

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