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Knowing What To Say

Knowing What To Say --- "Speaking With Patients About Spirituality & Exploring Verbal Responses to Spiritual Pain" is an educational lecture...

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Companioning the Bereaved: A Soulful Guide for Caregivers

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

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LivingMyCulture.ca

LivingMyCulture.ca shares the lived experience of sixty-four people from eleven cultures. Stories about traditions, rituals and spirituality, experiences of care,...

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Palliative Care: Transforming the Care of Serious Illness (lecture)

Leffert Lecture, December 2014, Massachusetts General Hospital, presented by Dr Diane Meir, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Care and Medicine...

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Start the Talk: Supporting Children and Teens When a Family Member has Cancer

This free online interactive resource is a guide for health care professionals and educators to support children and teens when...

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Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

Kate Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian upbringing, but she specializes in the study...

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Positive Communication- The Open Dementia Programme

These 20-30 minute modules of the Open Dementia e-Learning Programme are designed for anyone who has contact with someone with dementia. They...

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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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Am I Safe: Supporting conversations about patient safety in the home

Providing safe health care in an unpredictable home setting poses unique challenges.  This document discusses considerations and approaches to conversations...

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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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