Family, Friends and Patients Area
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This area of the CDF website provides a multitude of palliative care and end-of-life resources for patients, caregivers and family members. If you have a story, letter or poem that you would like to share, please use the "submit content" link at the bottom of the left side bar.
Latest Content
Family Support in Pediatric Palliative Care: How Are Families Impacted by their Children's Illnesses?
This is an interersting article on the impact illness has on a pediatric patient's family. ...
GeriPal: What a nursing assistant will tell us...if we ask
Posted: 29 Jan 2010 01:34 PM PST
A friend recently forwarded me an update to a story first reported...
Hard Choice for a Comfortable Death: Sedation
This is an interesting article on terminal sedation (part of a series) that was featured on the...
On The Southern Front: A Written Piece by Julia Alvarez
This is a wondeful article written by Julia Alvarez, author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their...
Anna Deavere Smith: "Let Me Down Easy"
The link below is to a November 6, 2009 episode of democracy now where Amy Goodman interviews Anna...
Memory of My Father
Every old man I see
Reminds me of my father
When he had fallen in love with death
One time when...
A Meeting
In a dream I meet
my dead friend. He has,
I know, gone long and far...
Link to Full Poem
Two Songs For Hedli Anderson
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone......
Michael Christensen: Co-founder, Big Apple Circus; founder, Clown Care
Visiting children and their families in the hospital, Clown Care founder Michael Christensen has...