THE END OF LIFE PROGRAMS
FEATURED THE END OF LIFE PROGRAM
"BEING WITH DYING TRAINING" PROGRAM
Training for physicians, nurses, psychologists, social workers, hospice workers, and clergy, in end-of-life care.
Palliative Care & Hospice Care Training
General End of Life Care
The Terminally Ill & Their Pets
End of Life Documentaries
Palliative Care & Hospice Care Training Programs
Being with Dying
Training
Program
Palliative care training for physicians, nurses, psychologists, social workers, hospice workers, and clergy, in end-of-life care.
Available Internationally.
Training
Program
Palliative care training for physicians, nurses, psychologists, social workers, hospice workers, and clergy, in end-of-life care.
Available Internationally.
Ethics and Decision Making in Critical Illness Program
A first of its kind medical school program in the United States dedicated to the study of ethical issues and decision making in critical illness.
University of Pittsburgh Department of Critical Care Medicine.
Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania, USA.
A first of its kind medical school program in the United States dedicated to the study of ethical issues and decision making in critical illness.
University of Pittsburgh Department of Critical Care Medicine.
Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania, USA.
Sacred Dying Foundation Sacred Vigil Dying Training Program
Hospitals, hospices, nursing homes, and religious congregations are trained in how to establish their own spiritual end of life care program by recruiting volunteer vigil leaders.
San Francisco, California, USA. Online Vigil Traning Available.
Hospitals, hospices, nursing homes, and religious congregations are trained in how to establish their own spiritual end of life care program by recruiting volunteer vigil leaders.
San Francisco, California, USA. Online Vigil Traning Available.
Palliative & End-of-life Training for Emergency Medicine Program
Emergency room doctors and staff learn how to communicate "bad news" to patients and families, and how to assess patients for psychological, spiritual, and social needs near the end of life.
Emergency room doctors and staff learn how to communicate "bad news" to patients and families, and how to assess patients for psychological, spiritual, and social needs near the end of life.
Palliative & End-of-life Training for Caregivers Program
Palliative care training to improve communication between caregivers, health care providers and cancer patient's during end of life care treatment.
Palliative care training to improve communication between caregivers, health care providers and cancer patient's during end of life care treatment.
End-Of-Life Issues for Psychologists Training Program
End of life training for psychologists and others from a psychological perpective on end-of-life treatment and issues.
End of life training for psychologists and others from a psychological perpective on end-of-life treatment and issues.
Living With Grief Alzheimer's Disease Program
Training in end of life care for those involved in the care of Alzheimer's and other dementia patients. Watch Video
Training in end of life care for those involved in the care of Alzheimer's and other dementia patients. Watch Video
Living With Grief Loss in Later Life Training Program
Hospice and palliative care training for professionals and others for dealing with loss and grief later in life.
Hospice and palliative care training for professionals and others for dealing with loss and grief later in life.
Pain Management at
End of Life Training Program
Informational palliative care and hospice care training on pain control in those with a terminal condition, including pharmaceutical, psycho-social, spiritual, and complementary aspects of pain management.
End of Life Training Program
Informational palliative care and hospice care training on pain control in those with a terminal condition, including pharmaceutical, psycho-social, spiritual, and complementary aspects of pain management.
Engaging Faith Communities End-Of-Life Training Program
Faith leaders and others learn how to support members of congregations facing an end-of-life medical crisis.
Faith leaders and others learn how to support members of congregations facing an end-of-life medical crisis.
Annual Educational Spirituality and End-of-Life Care Program
An annual DVD Program that provides hopice care and palliative care training on the role that spirituality can play in end of life care. Watch Video
An annual DVD Program that provides hopice care and palliative care training on the role that spirituality can play in end of life care. Watch Video
Hospice Education Network Training
Program
A comprehensive, innovative on-line program for hospice training and education.
Program
A comprehensive, innovative on-line program for hospice training and education.
Palliative Care
Leadership Centers Program
Training and mentoring in palliative care for organizations that wish to start a palliative care program or for those wishing to improve an existing program. Watch Video
Leadership Centers Program
Training and mentoring in palliative care for organizations that wish to start a palliative care program or for those wishing to improve an existing program. Watch Video
Hospice & Palliative Care Traveling Scholarship Program
Palliative care workers in developing countries get an opportunity to attend palliative care meetings, conferences, seminar, internship and other educational opportunities.
Palliative care workers in developing countries get an opportunity to attend palliative care meetings, conferences, seminar, internship and other educational opportunities.
Medical School
Palliative Care Education Project Program
To assist United States medical schools start or improve their palliative care curriculum for 3rd and 4th year medical students.
To assist United States medical schools start or improve their palliative care curriculum for 3rd and 4th year medical students.
End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium Project Program
National education initiative for nursing faculty, CE providers, staff development educators, and specialty nurses including geriatric nurses.
National education initiative for nursing faculty, CE providers, staff development educators, and specialty nurses including geriatric nurses.
Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Clinician Education Program
Tools to assist clinicians such as doctors, nurses and other health care professionals to effectively communicate with palliative and end of life care issues.
Tools to assist clinicians such as doctors, nurses and other health care professionals to effectively communicate with palliative and end of life care issues.
Building Closure into Your Practice–End of Life Care for Physicians
Teaching physicians the communication skills, medical principles, and techniques needed to improve the care that they provide for patients with life-limiting illnesses.
Teaching physicians the communication skills, medical principles, and techniques needed to improve the care that they provide for patients with life-limiting illnesses.
Training Caregivers in Long Term Care
Palliative Care Program
Training for caregivers and/or direct care staff on end of life care and other areas in nursing facilities.
Palliative Care Program
Training for caregivers and/or direct care staff on end of life care and other areas in nursing facilities.
EndLink - Resource for End of Life Care Education Program
An educational resource for health care professionals who work with dying patients and their families.
An educational resource for health care professionals who work with dying patients and their families.
Cultural & Spiritual Sensitivity for Health Care Professionals
Health care professionals become familiar with multi-cultural aspect, patient spirituality, religion, and health including end of life care.
Watch Video
Health care professionals become familiar with multi-cultural aspect, patient spirituality, religion, and health including end of life care.
Watch Video
Spiritual
End of Life Care Resources Program
Teaching materials to assist health care professions become familiar with spirituality, religion, and health including end of life care.
End of Life Care Resources Program
Teaching materials to assist health care professions become familiar with spirituality, religion, and health including end of life care.
General End of Life Care
Physician Orders for
Life-Sustaining Treatment POLST
An end of life care instruction form printed on bright pink paper, and signed by both a doctor and patient that clearly says what kinds of medical treatment patients want toward the end of their lives. POLST aims to give seriously ill patients more control over their treatment. California, USA.
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Life-Sustaining Treatment POLST
An end of life care instruction form printed on bright pink paper, and signed by both a doctor and patient that clearly says what kinds of medical treatment patients want toward the end of their lives. POLST aims to give seriously ill patients more control over their treatment. California, USA.
Watch Video
U.S. Living Will
Registry
Program
Registry that electronically stores advance directives, organ donor information and emergency contact information, making them available to health care providers across the country through an automated system. Across the USA.
Watch Video
Registry
Program
Registry that electronically stores advance directives, organ donor information and emergency contact information, making them available to health care providers across the country through an automated system. Across the USA.
Watch Video
Five Wishes
Living Will
Program
Living Will online or in booklet form that allows individuals to express their end of life care needs. Five Wishes is written in everyday language and helps start and structure important conversations about care in times of serious illness.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Available Across the USA. Watch Video
Living Will
Program
Living Will online or in booklet form that allows individuals to express their end of life care needs. Five Wishes is written in everyday language and helps start and structure important conversations about care in times of serious illness.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Available Across the USA. Watch Video
Legalzoom.com
Legal documents including Living Wills, Health Care Power of Attorney, Wills can be created by filling out online forms and the documents then mailed out for your records. LegalZoom provides a quick, easy way to complete and print legal documents.
Available Online.
Legal documents including Living Wills, Health Care Power of Attorney, Wills can be created by filling out online forms and the documents then mailed out for your records. LegalZoom provides a quick, easy way to complete and print legal documents.
Available Online.
Tool Kit for
Health Care Advance Planning Kit
American Bar Association Toolkit to help individuals ask the tough questions when planning for advance health care. The kit provides tools that assist individuals accurately communicate their wishes for advance health care.
American Bar Association Commission on Law and Aging. Available Online.
Health Care Advance Planning Kit
American Bar Association Toolkit to help individuals ask the tough questions when planning for advance health care. The kit provides tools that assist individuals accurately communicate their wishes for advance health care.
American Bar Association Commission on Law and Aging. Available Online.
Dream Foundation
Dream Granting
Program
A make a wish type program making dreams come true for seniors and adults suffering life-limiting illness.
Across the United States.
Dream Granting
Program
A make a wish type program making dreams come true for seniors and adults suffering life-limiting illness.
Across the United States.
Patient Education and Caring End-of-Life Series Program
End of life hospice training materials developed to help patients and families near the end of life. The Patient Educations and End-of-Life Series facilitates conversations between physicians, patients, and their families near the end of life. American College of Physicians. Across the USA.
End of life hospice training materials developed to help patients and families near the end of life. The Patient Educations and End-of-Life Series facilitates conversations between physicians, patients, and their families near the end of life. American College of Physicians. Across the USA.
Closure 101
Program
Patient education on end-of-life issues such as important questions to ask your doctor, advance health care planning and more.
Open to All Available Online.
Program
Patient education on end-of-life issues such as important questions to ask your doctor, advance health care planning and more.
Open to All Available Online.
Closure Community End of LIfe Conversations Series Program
A six-part series of open discussions that starts the end of life conversation. The aim is to increase awareness and improve end-of-life care within a specific community.
Open to All Available Online.
A six-part series of open discussions that starts the end of life conversation. The aim is to increase awareness and improve end-of-life care within a specific community.
Open to All Available Online.
Music for Healing & Transition
Program
Serving the ill and dying with music therapy to facilitate and promote healing or assist in the life/death transition. The Music for Healing and Transition program aims to provide an additional source of healing and/or comfort to the ill and dying.
Hillsdale, New York, U.S.A.
Program
Serving the ill and dying with music therapy to facilitate and promote healing or assist in the life/death transition. The Music for Healing and Transition program aims to provide an additional source of healing and/or comfort to the ill and dying.
Hillsdale, New York, U.S.A.
End-of-Life Vigil
Program
Providing a spiritual presence accompanying a person from life to death in the hopes of making the transition a peaceful one. The End-of-Life Vigil Program hopes to make the end-of-life transition an opportunity for reconciliation and acceptance for the dying and their loved ones. Based in San Francisco, California, USA.
Program
Providing a spiritual presence accompanying a person from life to death in the hopes of making the transition a peaceful one. The End-of-Life Vigil Program hopes to make the end-of-life transition an opportunity for reconciliation and acceptance for the dying and their loved ones. Based in San Francisco, California, USA.
Dreams for Seniors
Program
Make a wish type program dedicated to fulfilling the dreams of elderly with a chronic or critical disease (or a younger person suffering from a life threatening disease.)
Pekin Illinois, USA.
Program
Make a wish type program dedicated to fulfilling the dreams of elderly with a chronic or critical disease (or a younger person suffering from a life threatening disease.)
Pekin Illinois, USA.
Death Cafe
Death Cafe is a place for people to come together in a relaxed and safe setting to discuss their thoughts and feelings about death (a topic which is rarely discussed.)
United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and several other countries. Watch Video
Death Cafe is a place for people to come together in a relaxed and safe setting to discuss their thoughts and feelings about death (a topic which is rarely discussed.)
United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and several other countries. Watch Video
Hospice Lottery
A fundraising initiative to provide free hospice care in the UK that sells lottery tickets to the general public for a chance to win cash prizes.
United Kingdom.
Watch Video
A fundraising initiative to provide free hospice care in the UK that sells lottery tickets to the general public for a chance to win cash prizes.
United Kingdom.
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Dying Matters
The Dying Matters Awareness Campaign is the work of a coalition to promote openness and communication surrounding the attitudes around death and dying.
United Kingdom.
Watch Video
The Dying Matters Awareness Campaign is the work of a coalition to promote openness and communication surrounding the attitudes around death and dying.
United Kingdom.
Watch Video
The Terminally Ill & Their Pets
Pet Pals of Texas Program
Program assists those with terminal illness or disability to take care of their pets by providing things such as walking dogs to vet visits and arranging pet adoptions if an owner is hospitalized or passes away. Texas, USA.
Program assists those with terminal illness or disability to take care of their pets by providing things such as walking dogs to vet visits and arranging pet adoptions if an owner is hospitalized or passes away. Texas, USA.
Peace of Mind
Dog Rescue
Program
Finds new homes for dogs whose senior pet owners can no longer care for them due to illness, death, or other challenging circumstances. Pacific Grove, CA, USA.
Dog Rescue
Program
Finds new homes for dogs whose senior pet owners can no longer care for them due to illness, death, or other challenging circumstances. Pacific Grove, CA, USA.
Safe Place
for Pets
Program
Finds a new home for pets when a terminally ill owner can no longer can care for their pet. To ensure that pet owners are able to spend their last days peacefully and that pets find loving homes.
Colorado Springs, CO, USA.
Program
Finds a new home for pets when a terminally ill owner can no longer can care for their pet. To ensure that pet owners are able to spend their last days peacefully and that pets find loving homes.
Colorado Springs, CO, USA.
Pet Guardians
Program
Finds permanent homes for pets that belong to terminally ill elderly patients or those who are entering a nursing facility.
Pet Guardians eliminate any stress and worry the patient may experience in having to give up their pet to a shelter for adoption or putting it to sleep.
Pennsylvania, USA.
Program
Finds permanent homes for pets that belong to terminally ill elderly patients or those who are entering a nursing facility.
Pet Guardians eliminate any stress and worry the patient may experience in having to give up their pet to a shelter for adoption or putting it to sleep.
Pennsylvania, USA.
Pet
Peace of Mind Program
Program that takes care of the pets of hospice patients so that hospice care patients don't have to worry about their pet's current or future care
Banfield Charitable Trust. Available to Hospices across the USA.
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Program that takes care of the pets of hospice patients so that hospice care patients don't have to worry about their pet's current or future care
Banfield Charitable Trust. Available to Hospices across the USA.
Watch Video
Pet Project
Program
Assists those with terminal illness by helping take care of their pets. The Pet Project empowers those with life threatening illness to keep their pets. To preserve the benefits of the human-animal bond such as socialization, and improved emotional health.
Program
Assists those with terminal illness by helping take care of their pets. The Pet Project empowers those with life threatening illness to keep their pets. To preserve the benefits of the human-animal bond such as socialization, and improved emotional health.
Oakland Park, Florida, USA.
Cinnamon Trust
Program
Helps the elderly and terminally ill to take care of their pets by walking dogs, temporarily fostering pets, running errands such as buying pet food etc. The trust also promises to take care of pets after an elderly person moves into a care home or after a terminally ill person passes away.
United Kingdom UK.
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Program
Helps the elderly and terminally ill to take care of their pets by walking dogs, temporarily fostering pets, running errands such as buying pet food etc. The trust also promises to take care of pets after an elderly person moves into a care home or after a terminally ill person passes away.
United Kingdom UK.
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Pets of Older Persons Program
Helps elderly who are terminally ill or admitted to hospital to take care of their pets. The program also helps socially isolated elderly or elderly who are unable to take care of their pets for other reasons. RSPCA
New South Wales. Australia.
Helps elderly who are terminally ill or admitted to hospital to take care of their pets. The program also helps socially isolated elderly or elderly who are unable to take care of their pets for other reasons. RSPCA
New South Wales. Australia.