Resources for knowledge, wisdom, and support.

 Caregiver Support

• Safe Patient Handling and Mobility

• The Quiet Rage of Caregivers, New York Times article about coping with anger as a family caregiver.

• Caregiver Stress: The Impact on Physical Health, online article highlighting the reality of caregiver stress/burnout and the necessity of self care and support for caregivers in order to stay strong, healthy and in the role of effective support.

• Soul and Science: Lessons for Caregivers, creative, on-line video lessons called “Take Five for Caregivers” – together with practical tools, the latest clinical research and inspiring insights.

• Conscious Caregiving, free video and blog online resource to assist those caring for a loved one moving toward the threshold of death.

• Re-imagining The End-of-Life: Self-Development and Reflective Practices for Nurses, 4-week, self-paced, online course for nurses and nurse coaches.

Advanced Directives Support

• Love Is Not Enough, Youtube video about the importance of Advance Care Planning

• Advanced Directive Toolkits

  • My End-of-Life Decisions: An Advance Planning Guide and Toolkit developed by Compassion and Choices, free online resource.

  • What Matters to Me: A Workbook for People with Serious Illness, free online resource.

• A ‘natural death’ may be preferable for many to enduring CPR, National Public Radio article.

• Better Your Goodbyes, an online resource developed by Liz Lightner, an End of Life Doula, who is passionate about helping people navigate their end of life options and communicate their wishes to their loved ones and medical team.

• Compassion and Choices improves care, expands options and empowers everyone to chart their end-of-life journey. Learn about the many options available to die with dignity.

• Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD), online article.

• Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED), online article.

• Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: A Compassionate, Widely-Available Option for Hastening Death by Quill, Menzel, Pope and Schwarz, book.

• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters at the End by Atul Gawande, book.

• Inheritance and IRAs, web resource.

End-of-Life Resources

• No Pressure No Diamonds: Mining for Gifts in Illness and Loss by Teri Dillion, a funny, sobering, and reflective book about the author’s journey living and dying with ALS.

  • Teri’s Facebook page, highlighting her transparent and courageous process that lead to final end of life decisions.

• Griefwalker by Time Wilson, free online documentary introducing Stephen Jenkinson, who has made it his life's mission to change the way we die - to turn the act of dying from denial and resistance into an essential part of life

• The Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware, book.

• The Grace in Dying by Kathleen Dowling Singh, book.

Aging Resources

• Wyoming Center on Aging, online resource dedicated to providing trustworthy and credible information about aging-related topics. Resources are for healthcare professionals, students, faculty, older adults, and family caregivers. They have many formats ranging from online education to a lending library of DVDs, videos and publications.

• Choose Nurture, online resource that offers thoughtful courses and expert guidance to help people age on their own terms.

• The Grace in Aging by Kathleen Dowling Singh, book.

• Aging Well: Solutions to the Most Pressing Global Challenges of Aging by William Haseltine and Jean Galiana, book.

• National Council on Aging, online resource for older adults and caregivers.