Audio Podcast: Spiritual and Religious Care of the Hospice Palliative Care Client.
Description: This is an audio podcast from Hospice Palliative Care Insights, a monthly palliative care podcast based in Canada. In this discussion Jacquie Peden, an Advanced Practice Nurse in Hospice Palliative Care, interviews Rev. Dan Cooper, Spiritual Care Development Consultant for the Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region. The audio is not the highest quality but it
Cunniff-Dixon Letter: Andy Baxter
This letter is part of my Healthcare Proxy/Living Will package "To My Health Care Proxy(ies), Anne, Cookie, and Michael: Personal Wishes; Supplemental Thoughts With complete foreknowledge of the consequences of my doing so, I hereby fully relieve and release, and without hesitation or qualification firmly direct and require my Executor(s) to relieve and release each
Audio Podcast: End-of-Life Care For Children: Adding Life to a Child’s Time
Description: This is an audio podcast from Hospice Palliative Care Insights, a monthly palliative care podcast based in Canada. In this discussion, Jacquie Peden, an Advanced Practice Nurse interviews Ms. Maria Rugg, Clinical Nurse Specialist of the Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto, Canada), Palliative and Bereavement Care Program. The Audio is not the highest quality
Cunniff-Dixon Letter: Carley Cunniff
Near the end of her life, Carley Cunniff wrote this letter with the assistance of Dr. Peter Dixon and her health care proxies. It is shared here as one example of a health care directive that played a crucial role in guiding caregivers at the end of Carley's life. This letter is part of the
Audio Podcast: Patients Choose Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Description: This is an audio podcast from Hospice Palliative Care Insights, a monthly palliative care podcast based in Canada. In this discussion, Jacquie Peden, an Advanced Practice Nurse interviews Barbara Findlay, a Canadian nurse leader in Integrative Medicine program development (now at the Samueli Institute in Alexandria, Virginia). This podcast offers one of the most descriptive,
Epilogue: A written piece by the late Lydia Prescott Thayer
Description: Epilogue by Lydia Prescott Thayer What is it in us, especially when we are young, that makes most of us fight for life with such dogged and desperate and passionate persistence? Life is a future we cannot see, mysterious and unpredictable. Yet we choose it, if choice is really ours, even with
Video: Palliative Care in Action
Description: This video posted on getpalliativecare.org gives a short, basic introduction to Palliative Care and how it is used. It includes interviews with Diane Meier, MD, FACP who is the director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care and the director of the Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. If
Excerpt from “In Blackwater Woods”; a poem by Mary Oliver
Synopsis: Mary Oliver is a poet from Province Town, MA and writes mostly about nature. Oliver was awarded the Pulitzer Prize (1984) and the National Book Award (1992). Her most recent collection is Evidence (2009). The following is an excerpt from her poem In Blackwater Woods that was recently published in the New York Times.
“Living Old” – Frontline’s 2006 documentary on aging
Description: "A powerful and intimate journey into the uncharted territory of Americans living longer than ever -- and what it means for them, their loved ones and our society." PBS's award winning documentary team explores the topic of "living old" and the rapidly growing population of people age 85 and older. Top notch film making