Online self-directed resources whenever you need them.
Sometimes all you need or want is information to point you in the right direction. Our practical tools and resources are available to support individuals, professionals, and community advocates who are grieving or supporting others.
Resource Collections
The Children’s Grief Centre has created resource collections for children, teens, parents and caregivers. In each group you’ll find informative blog posts that can be downloaded as PDFs, book recommendations, and links to other organizations where you can find additional quality resources.
These resources can be used when explaining death or advanced illness to young children or to help them grieve.
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These resources can be used when explaining death or advanced illness to older children or teens or to help them grieve.
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The Living with Advanced Illness Centre and Rosedale Hospice have created resource collections for adults living with advanced illness and their caregivers.
Additional Resources
Resources for those Planning Advanced Care at End of Life
Palliative Care at End of Life
- AHS Advanced Care Planning: Conversation Matters
- AHS Palliative Care Resource Listing
- Alberta Hospice Palliative Care Association
- I Did it My Way: Aging Well To The End
- Life’s Last Chapter
- Living My Culture
- Compassion Alberta: Health, Financial, & Estate Planning
- Memorial Society of Alberta
Financial Management
- Canada Pension Survivors Benefit
- Canadian Virtual Hospice: Patient Benefits
- Compassionate Benefits Program
- Compassion Alberta: Health, Financial, & Estate Planning
Funeral Planning
Resources for Professionals & Volunteers Working in Palliative Care
- Alberta Health Services Infection Prevention & Control
- Canadian Virtual Hospice
- Chinese Patients with Cancer at the End of Life
- Family Conversations about MAID
- Life’s Last Chapter
- Living with Advanced Illness Brochure
- Musings of a Hospice Chaplain
- My Health Alberta: Palliative and End of Life Care
- St. John Ambulance and The Order of St. Lazarus
Our Practice at Rosedale Hospice
Mindfulness Practice
- Centre for Mindfulness in Medicine Health Care and Society
- Local Learning & Practice Opportunities
- New York Zen Centre for Contemplative Care
- Room Blessing
- Shift Change Blessing
- University of Rochester Medical Centre Family Medicine Mindful Practice
- Upaya Zen Centre
Suggested Books
- A Place of Healing by Joni Eareckson Tada
- A Year to Live by Stephen Levine
- Being with Dying by Joan Halifax, Ira Byock
- Crossing Over: Narratives of Palliative Care by David Barnard
- Dying Well by Ira Byock
- Heal Thy Self: Lessons on Mindfulness in Medicine by Saki Santorelli
- Mindfulness-Based Cancer Recovery by Linda E. Carlson, Michael Speca
- My Grandfather’s Blessings : Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging by Rachel Naomi Remen
- Resilience in Palliative Care Achievement in Adversity by Barbara Monroe
- The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully by Frank Ostaseki
- The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, And The Human Condition by Arthur Kleinman
- The Nature of Suffering: And the Goals of Medicine by Eric J. Cassell
- Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying by Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine
- With the End in Mind by Kathryn Mannix
Resources for Professionals & Volunteers Working with Children, Teens and Families
- Canadian Virtual Hospice
- Children’s Grief Centre Brochure
- Informing a Child of a Death
- Living with Advanced Illness Brochure
- KidsGrief.ca
- MyGrief.ca
Suggested References
- Continuing Bonds: New Understandings of Grief by Dennis Klass
- Never Too Young to Know: Death in Children’s Lives by Phyllis Rolfe Silverman
- Predictors and Parameters of Resilience to Loss: Toward an Individual Differences Model by A. D. Mancini, G. A. Bonanno
- The Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement by M. Stroebe, H. Schut
- The Grieving Person’s Bill of Rights by Alan Wolfelt