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Helpful Resources to Help You Navigate COVID-19 is a blog of the Conversation Project who has a saying often used by TCP Team “never worry alone.” They use that idiom to encourage one another to express concerns and let peers know how they can best support one another during challenging times. Acting on this sentiment
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The Center for Practical Bioethics, formerly known as the Midwest Bioethics Center, has a 20 year history of raising and responding to ethical issues in health and healthcare and works specifically in the following areas. Researchers looking for Midwest Bioethics Center publications should contact the Center for Practical Bioethics. Clinical and Organizational Ethics: solving moral
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These guidelines prepared by the Palliative Care Council of South Australia give an overview of cultural issues when serving Latinos, Vietnamese, and people of Muslim faith. Guidelines consider religion, place of treatment, communication of diagnosis/prognosis, role of family/relative/friends, role of health professionals/volunteers, attitudes to pain relief and euthanasia, taboo words, handling of the body, burial
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The mission of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) is to promote minority health and to lead, coordinate, support, and assess the National Institutes on Health effort to reduce and ultimately eliminate health disparities. In this effort NIMHD will conduct and support basic, clinical, social, and behavioral research, promote research infrastructure
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The Growth House Professional Forum gives you access to many mailing lists for end-of-life care provided by IICN Partner Organizations. You may read the web archives as a guest without registering. Visit Professional Forum at Growth House
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Promises to Keep: Changing the Way We Provide Care at the End of Life published by the National Coalition on Health Care and The Institute for Healthcare Improvement in October, 2000. This report presents the stories of institutions and organizations that made a commitment to change and innovation to improve care at the end of
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Dedicated to long-term changes to improve health care for dying people and their families. Through the work of innovative demonstration projects and peer workgroups they strive to address particular challenges to existing models of hospice and palliative care. Visit Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care
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Seniors & the Law: A Guide for Maturing Californians – Last updated in 2009. Avaialbe free in English or Spanish. Seniors & the Law offers an overview of important issues facing senior citizens, including finances and debt, social security and insurance, housing and caregiving, employment, health care, elder abuse/elder fraud, grandparents’ rights, divorce and remarriage,
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