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Palliative Resources

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More to Dying than meets the eye - Ted Talks

 

FETCH Campbell River - For Everything that's Community Health

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Island Health Medical Assistance in Dying

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Life Before Death

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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

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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

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Canadian Virtual Hospice

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Advanced Care Planning:

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Life and Death Matters

 

Medical Assistance in Dying

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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

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Boundaries Article

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Serious Illness Conversation Guide

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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)

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Mourning has Broken

Author: Erin Davis

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