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.
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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...
Dean Ornish on Healing
Dean Ornish talks about simple, low-tech and low-cost ways to take advantage of the body's natural...