Resources
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Advance Care Planning
Helping you plan for what is important to you as your health changes by talking about and/or writing down your wishes about medical treatments.
Advance Directives
A form that allows you to document who you trust to make health decision if you are unable to do so yourself due to illness or injury. This form also captures your wishes about the care you want or don’t want, and what is important to you about how you live or how you die.
This form can be signed by 2 witnesses or a notary, an attorney is not required.
POLST (Portable Order for Life Sustaining Treatment)
A medical order that tells emergency responders about any limits in medical treatments. This order must be signed by your health care provider. This order is not necessary if you desire all available medical treatments. It can updated or changed by your health care providers at any time as your preferences change.
Conversation Guides
Talking about serious illness or end of life can be hard or scary. Getting support for who, how or what to talk about can make a big difference.
There are tools to help you prepare for these conversations, organize your thoughts and consider what really matters to you.
Caregiving
Taking care of others can be an act of love and a source of pride. It can also be a source of distress or strain. Learn more about caring for yourself while caring for others.
Memory Related Caregiving
Caregiving for someone whose brain is changing can be a profound and meaningful act of love and can, and it can also be challenge leading to stress, strain or burnout. Getting information about what to expect and accessing support along the way can help sustain caregivers over time allowing the best care and quality of life as possible.
Cancer Related Caregiving
While cancer may not live in the body of caregivers, they are impacted by the experience of cancer on those they love or care for. When caregivers are cared for, they are more effective caregivers.
Health Professionals
Despite what might be a calling that brought health care providers into the profession, emotional exhaustion, loss of compassion or limited meaning, accomplishment or satisfaction is all too common.
There’s support for nurses/NP’s/nursing assistants, dentists, physicians, midwives and more.
Grief
Grief can be complicated and lonely. We can experience emotional, physical, logistical and existential impacts. Grieving people do not need to grieve alone.
Understanding Grief
Grief
Grief Support Groups
Sometimes you need your own space to grieve, and sometimes you need to grieve in community.
Professional Grief
Despite what might be a calling that brought health care providers into the profession, emotional exhaustion, loss of compassion or limited meaning, accomplishment or satisfaction is all too common.
There’s support for nurses/NP’s/nursing assistants, dentists, physicians, midwives and more.
Palliative Care and Hospice
Both palliative care and hospice aim to promote the best quality of life possible for people facing serious illness but are NOT the same. Learn more here.
Palliative Care
Specialty service to help people living with and impacted by serious illness navigate the physical, emotional, spiritual, financial and relational needs.
Hospice
Sometimes you need your own space to grieve, and sometimes you need to grieve in community.