Planning Resources
Your family, friends and neighbors are often looking for ways to help and support you during difficult times. We would suggest that before you go looking to people you don’t know look and ask the people you do know if they would be able to help your family with some of the practical needs or if they know of someone who might be available to provide support.
Here you will find some resources and videos to help give you information and insight to help you or a loved one understand and live with illness.
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters Most in the End Atul Guwande
- The Four Things that Matter Most: A Book About Living, Ira Byock
- The End of You Life Book Club William Shawalbe
- Talking about Death Won't Kill You, Dr. Kathy Kortes-Miller
- Can't We talk about Something More Pleasant, Roz Chast
- When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi
- The Bright Hour, Nina Riggs
- A checklist of what to do when someone has died
- Funeral Planning
- ISTH Funeral Planning Checklist
- Understanding Power of Attorney and Wills
Advance Care Planning E Learning Course for Professionals
Expand your knowledge and advance your skills in facilitating ACP conversations, goals of care discussions & consent (in compliance with Ontario's Health Care Consent Act).
How to Have a Conversation About Serious Illness, Dying and Death
There is never a good time or easy way to talk about serious illness, dying and death. It is hard. It can be uncomfortable and very difficult.
Caregiver Support
You might be new to caregiving, or you might be well along your journey. Regardless of the unique circumstances of your situation, we do know that all caregiving can be incredibly rewarding, and it can be incredibly isolating and stressful too. This website is meant to assist you in finding the support you need, exactly when you need it. You can browse the topics in any order you would like to. Visit the website as many times as you like.
The Etiquette of Illness and Grief – Tip Sheet
“When we suffer loss or face difficulties of any kind, there is a real desire deep in most people for human connection.” Sheryl Sandberg, Option B
Advance Care Planning E Learning Course for Professionals
Expand your knowledge and advance your skills in facilitating ACP conversations, goals of care discussions & consent (in compliance with Ontario's Health Care Consent Act).
Caregiver Support
You might be new to caregiving, or you might be well along your journey. Regardless of the unique circumstances of your situation, we do know that all caregiving can be incredibly rewarding, and it can be incredibly isolating and stressful too. This website is meant to assist you in finding the support you need, exactly when you need it. You can browse the topics in any order you would like to. Visit the website as many times as you like.
How to Have a Conversation About Serious Illness, Dying and Death
There is never a good time or easy way to talk about serious illness, dying and death. It is hard. It can be uncomfortable and very difficult.
The Etiquette of Illness and Grief – Tip Sheet
“When we suffer loss or face difficulties of any kind, there is a real desire deep in most people for human connection.” Sheryl Sandberg, Option B