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Hospice Palliative Care Helpline
tip sheets & VIDEOS
- Running A Grief Group
- What's Your Worry: Worry Monsters Video and Tip Sheet
- Ways for Families to Stay Connected
- Mental Health Wellness Tips for Managing Isolation
- Planning and Preparing for Caregivers
- Planning for Conversation for Caregivers
- Talking About and Planning for Illness and Dying
- What You Should Know Before You Need a Ventilator
- Your Loved One Is Ill Or Dying and You Cannot Be With Them
- Meaningful Ideas for Funerals during COVID-19
- A Checklist of What To Do When Someone Has Died
- Video: Guided Meditation, "Grounding"
- Video: Poetry Writing with Charlotte Safieh
- Video: Guided Meditation with Sonia Madan (May 28)
- Video: Guided Meditation with Sonia Madan (June 8)
- Video: Creative Writing Workshop
- Video: Sound Bath with Elvira Hopper
- Video: Nutrition Hour - Benefits of Bone Broth
- Video: Meditation and Tapping
links
We recognize that the support received by a grieving child or youth can significantly influence his/her wellbeing. As a result we aim to connect individuals and organizations who provide services and resources that benefit children and youth who are grieving a death.
CAREGIVERS ONLINE CAREGIVER RESOURCES
HAVING THE CONVERSATION
Talking about death is not familiar for most and therefore not an easy conversation. We have listed some resources below that can help you plan for and start the conversation.
- How to have a conversation about serious illness, dying and death (HHH person served and families)
- How to talk to kids about grief, dying, death and loss
Book List
- Can’t we Talk about Something More Pleasant, Roz Chast
- Talking about Death Won’t Kill You, Dr. Kathy Kortes-Miller
- When a Parent is Sick: Helping Parents Explain Serious Illness to Children, Joan Hamilton
- Great Answers to Difficult Questions about Death: What Children Need to Know by Linda Goldman
- When Dinosaurs Die: A Guide to Understanding Death by Laurie Krasny Brown and Marc Brown
- Lifetimes: A Beautiful Way to Explain Death to Children by Brian Mellonie and Robert Ingpen
- Straight Talk About Death for Teenagers by Earl A. Grollman
Speak Up Ontario
Advance Care Planning Workbook Ontario Edition (English)
Parlons-en Ontario
Manuel sur la planification préalable des soins Édition de l’Ontario (French)
Your Conversation Starter Kit
When it comes to end-of-life care, talking matters.
Guide de Conversation
En ce qui concerne les soins en fin de vie, parler compte.
