Site Links for Palliative Care
- What Is Life Support?
- Talking to Children about Death
- Pain Medications for Palliative Care
- Caring for a Person With Dementia
- What to Expect When Your Loved One Is Dying
- Feeling Grief and Loss While You're a Caregiver
- What’s the Difference Between Hospice and Palliative Care?
- Managing Pain: Beyond Drugs
- Questions of Death and Dying
- End of Life: Coping with Anxiety and Depression
- How to Get Pediatric Palliative Care
- Advance Directives
- Life-Threatening Illness: What to Tell Family, Friends
- Neonatal Palliative Care: Focus on Life
- Siblings of Children with Serious Illnesses
- How to Find Palliative Care
- When Is Palliative Care Appropriate?
- The Palliative Care Team
- Getting Your Affairs in Order
- What is a durable power of attorney for health care?
- What are things to look for when choosing a medical power of attorney?
- What are some things to consider in a living will?
- Advance Directives: Having the Talk
- What is an advance directive?
- How do I create an advance directive?
- What should I discuss with my medical power of attorney?
- What are advance directives?
- How can you make children feel more normal if their sibling is sick?
- If one of my kids is in the hospital, how can I make my other children feel included if they can't go to the hospital?
- Who can help a family deal with a child's serious illness?
- Who are child-life specialists and how can they help siblings of children with a serious illness?
- What are examples of what a palliative care team might do?
- When can I start palliative care?
- What are symptoms palliative care may help?
- What diseases can be treated with palliative care?
- Who is on a palliative care team?
- What are some questions to ask your palliative care team?
- What services can a palliative care team provide?
- What are the goals of palliative care?
- Does palliative care mean you are dying?
- What are non-drug options for easing pain due to an illness?
- What happens if your doctor is hesitating to make a referral for palliative care?
- What is the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine?
- How do you pay for palliative care?
- What is the Center to Advance Palliative Care?
- What is the National Institutes of Health: Clinical Trials on Palliative Care?
- What is the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization?
- What are national resources to help locate palliative care programs?
- What is the first step in finding palliative care?
- Coping with a Life-Threatening Illness
- Pediatric Palliative Care: Easing Your Child's Suffering
- What Is Palliative Care?
- The Palliative Caregiver
- What are side effects of opioids?
- What causes nerve pain and how can it be alleviated during palliative care?
- How are opioids taken?
- What causes bone pain and how can it be treated?
- What should you do in the last days or hours of death of your loved one?
- What are tips to help a 6- to 9-year-old sibling cope with their feelings about a sick or dying child?
- What is anticipatory grief?
- Is anticipatory grief normal for caregivers?
- What are common feelings from anticipatory grief?
- How can you take control of your feelings of grief as a primary caregiver?
- What should you do if you feel overwhelmed as a primary caregiver?
- Why is it important to create memories if you feel grief as a primary caregiver?
- Can you feel grief before a loved one dies?
- What personal things should you make time for when you're someone's main caregiver?
- Why should you be honest about your feelings of grief as a caregiver?
- What are tips to help a 3- to 5-year-old sibling cope with their feelings about a sick or dying child?
- What are things loved ones can do to help me with a life-threatening illness?
- Should you talk with your child about death if they have a life-threatening condition or a terminal illness?
- How well can infant and toddler siblings of a sick or dying child understand what is happening?
- How do I break bad news to my children if they have a life-threatening condition?
- What can parents say if they don't want to use the words "die, dead", and "dying" with their sick child?
- How do 10- to 12-year-olds understand death?
- How do 3- to 5-year olds understand a sick or dying sibling?
- How might children react sometimes to heavy conversations about their life-threatening condition?
- How do 6- to 9-year-olds understand death and dying?
- If your child has a life-threatening condition and you're not sure how to talk to them about it, is there a medical professional who can help you?
- What are some tips to soothe and care for an infant or toddler if their sibling is sick or dying?
- How do teenagers understand death?
- What are resources for dementia caregivers?
- How might siblings of a child with a life-threatening condition react?
- How do you tell your loved ones about a life-threatening illness?
- Are there resources to start the conversation with a child about their life-threatening condition?
- What should I expect if I talk to my children about life-threatening conditions?
- What might happen if parents avoid a child's questions about death if the child has a life-threatening illness?
- How should I talk to my child about death?
- What are tips to help a 10- to 12-year-old sibling cope with their feelings about a sick or dying child?
- Should you tell a child about a life-threatening illness?
- What are some tips to help a teenager take charge of their feelings about a sick or dying sibling?
- When might a pediatric palliative care team be recommended?
- Do you need to get a referral for a pediatric palliative care team?
- What wishes should parents consider if their unborn baby or newborn has a life-threatening disease?
- What do birth plans include if you have a baby with a life-threatening disease?
- What do neonatal palliative care givers assist in?
- How can parents find support if their baby has a life threatening disease?
- When is palliative care needed for an unborn baby or a newborn?
- What does neonatal palliative care look like after the baby is born?
- What kinds of emotions do some new or expecting parents feel after they learn their baby has a life-threatening disease?
- If your baby has a life-threatening disease, who should you share the information with?
- Should you consider getting a second opinion if your baby is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness?
- What happens during a baby's life for neonatal palliative care?
- What should parents know about their baby's life-threatening condition?
- What should you know about palliative care if your baby is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness?
- What does neonatal palliative care look like during delivery?
- Is grieving normal if you find out your unborn baby has a life-threatening illness?
- When is palliative care recommended for newborns?
- How can families find a pediatric palliative care team?
- What is pediatric palliative care (PAC)?
- What do you do if there is not a pediatric palliative care team available at your child's hospital?
- What is true clinical depression due to a life-threatening illness?
- How can a palliative care team help you and your child with emotions?
- Who can get palliative care?
- How does palliative care work and how is it different than hospice?
- Does insurance cover palliative care?
- Who should get palliative care?
- What is palliative care for children?
- How can clinical depression be treated?
- If you have life-threatening illness, why is talking about it important?
- Will insurance pay for palliative or hospice care?
- When do doctors stop life support?
- Palliative Care for Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer
- What are the different types of life support?
- What are signs you or your loved one may have clinical depression due to a life-threatening illness?
- How do you know what palliative medications to use?
- What are side effects of drugs taken for pain during palliative or hospice care?
- What are the signs one to three months before death?
- What can palliative medicines help with?
- Can you get addicted to opiates for palliative or hospice care?
- What are the signs one to two weeks before death?
- How do I get palliative care?
- When should you switch to hospice care for your loved one?
- Planning For Your Death
- What is hospice care?
- Do palliative care and hospice care use medications for pain?
- Are people with life-threatening illnesses more likely to be depressed?
- What if you are feeling grief and anxiety rather than depression from a life-threatening illness?
- What are the signs of death within days or hours?
- How is palliative care different from hospice?
- Where can you get help and support when your loved one is dying?
- Who is a part of a hospice care team?
- Who should you talk to if you or your loved one has clinical depression and a life-threatening illness?
- What are other signs of death?
- Palliative Care