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Lifting From Others the Burden of Your Own Death Giving your loved ones guidance on what to do as you approach... View Item Documents You Need When You Need Them A smartphone app helps keep all your important documents in one place. View Item Honoring a Father’s Last Wish: To Die at Home Maureen Stefanides wanted to fulfill her father’s request. View Item When It’s the Doctor Who Can’t Let Go Sometimes it’s doctors, not families, who can’t let a patient go. View Item When Medicine is Futile Doctors need to be able to say “no” when treatment won’t help. View Item Caring For the Dead: A Normal Part of Life A home funeral provides precious, personal time. View Item What It Means to “Hold Space for People” In this blog post, Heather Plett offers advice about how to support others. View Item Honoring Choices Pacific Northwest Information on terminology and medical interventions. Other resources for planning. View Item The Conversation Project A starter kit for advance care directives. View Item 5 Wishes – Aging with Dignity Resources for developing a living will and planning care at the end-of-life. View Item Death Wise Resources for starting the conversation about advance care planning. View Item National Healthcare Decisions National project to encourage the completion of advance directives, including resources. View Item National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization Exploring the varied roles of palliative care and hospice care. View Item Stanford Palliative Care Training Portal Educational materials about palliative and end-of-life care. Primarily for clinicians... View Item How to Save Money at the Hospital Going to the hospital can be scary—but medical bills can be... View Item Diagnois Decorder The Diagnosis Decoder™ helps you generate specific questions for your doctor... View Item At the End of Life, a Way to Go Gentle A NYT review of Jessica Nutik Zitter's book, Extreme Measures... View Item Is It Better to Die in America or in England? End of Life care in America has still has room to improve... View Item The Patients Were Saved. That’s Why the Families Are Suing Sometimes end-of-life choices are not honored. View Item What Do Caregivers Need Most? Caregivers need a break and they need support. View Item Funeral and Burial Rites are Changing Earth or Fire, Casket or Shroud? Funeral and Burial Rites are Changing. View Item A Guide to Burial and Funeral Alternatives Green burials, cremation, funeral pyres and family preparation of a body. View Item Palliative Care: What is It? If you’re confused about what Palliative Care means, this blog post might... View Item Offering a Choice to the Terminally Ill Health care providers in states where assisted suicide is illegal face wrenching... View Item Palliative Care Important for Prison Population Too With an aging prison population, end-of-life care for inmates is becoming more prominent View Item How to Tell Someone You’re Terminally Ill Give people a chance to help. Sometimes a text is O.K. View Item 16 Things I Would Want If I Got Dementia A heartfelt wish list from a dementia care worker. View Item Fraying at the Edges; A Life Changing Diagnosis A withered person with a scrambled mind, memories sealed away: the familiar... View Item Coloring Your Way Through Grief Dr. Derman has produced an intriguing new tool – an adult coloring... View Item 10 things to know about palliative care in Whatcom County A short article from the Bellingham Herald that describes palliative care and some... View Item Complementary Care Modalities This site offers a short description of some of the most commonly used... View Item Palliative Care: The Relief You Need When You’re Experiencing the Symptoms... This bulletin from the National Institute of Nursing Research outlines the benefits of... View Item Building an Alzheimer's resistant brain Alzheimer's doesn't have to be your brain's destiny. In this TED talk neuroscientist... View Item Alternative burial practices: Would you compost your body? This Terrestrial podcast examines our burial practices from an environmental perspective, because that’s... View Item How to recover when the worst happens Grief doesn't hit everybody the same way. And people deal with it differently.... View Item Handbook for Washington Seniors: Legal Rights and Resources This handbook provides significant legal information and advice about topics such as Health... View Item What is Diabetic Retinopathy? In this article, Dr. Michael Binder, founder of... View Item Exercise & Parkinson's Report on a study of the impact of Intense treadmill exercise on the... View Item How to support a grieving friend In this article, The Mistake I Made with My Grieving Friend, Celeste Headlee... View Item When a Grieving Mother Talks, Listen The loss of a stillborn child is one of our culture's unspoken griefs. View Item Understanding Grief In this editorial from the New York Times, Jane Brody explores what we... View Item Waiting too long to use hospice care can make suffering at... Many people who are near the end of life wait too long to... View Item How Do I Know that Palliative Care is Right for Me? This article answers some of the most frequently asked questions about palliative care. View Item What is Palliative Care? This short video from Health Matters explains how palliative care teams work to... View Item Long distance caregiving When a loved one in another state is ill, virtually attending appointments is... View Item Dementia Planning - Dr. Barak Gaster In this KUOW sponsored lecture, Dr. Barak Gaster talks about dementia, end of... View Item Sparking Conversations and Caring for Dementia & Alzheimer’s Disease Links to 12 articles about articles being published about caring for those with... View Item New Yorker: The Comforting Fictions of Dementia Care Many facilities are using nostalgic environments as a means of soothing the misery,... View Item Green Burials: At the End of Life, Thinking Outside the Coffin A lighthearted graphic explanation of how green burials differ from other traditional methods. View Item How to Cope With Grief During the Holidays The holidays can be the most painful time of year when you've experienced... View Item Ten Tips to Help Someone Grieving During the Holidays Holidays are often hard for those who have lost a loved one. Often,... View Item Sorting out the financial mess left after a death A partner’s or spouse’s death is one of the most emotionally wrenching events... View Item Parents Mourning Stillbirth Stillbirth, generally defined as the death of a baby in the womb after... View Item Miscarriage and grief. Miscarriage is one of the disenfranchised griefs in our culture. Those who... 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