Resource Links & Downloads

Brochures

• Bereavement Services (pdf | 174K)
  Information for Families and the Community
• Chaplaincy Services (pdf | 173K)
  Companions in the Search for Meaning
• Home Health (pdf | 153K)
  Skilled Services for the Adult Patient
• Inpatient Hospice Home Levels of Care (pdf | 159K)
  Information for Patients & Families
• Integrative Therapies (pdf | 493K)
  Enhancing the Quality of Life for Patients at Hospice of the Valley
• Pediatric Program (pdf | 203K)
  When a child is seriously ill
• When is it time to consider hospice care? (pdf | 148K)
  It is time to consider hospice care when a patient exhibits one or more of the following core and/or disease-specific indicators.

Education

• Dementia Education
  Teaching professional and family caregivers new ways to connect with patients with dementia, most commonly Alzheimer’s disease.
• Medical Student Education
  Palliative care rotations also are available to requesting medical schools in Arizona.
• Nursing Student Education
  Precepted clinical experiences are offered to student nurses and nurses currently enrolled in a nurse refresher program.
• Palliative Care Nursing Fellowship
  Learn more about providing state-of-the-art palliative care to patients with heart disease, COPD, stroke, dementia, or cancer.
• Resident/Fellow (Physician) Education
  A comprehensive palliative care rotation provides local physicians-in-training and fellows with an in-depth overview of the basic principles of hospice and palliative medicine.

Grief and Loss Articles

• Disloyalty (pdf | 185K)
  
• Four Key Facts About Grief (pdf | 154K)
  
• Gentle Journaling for Confronting Loss... (pdf | 177K)
  
• Gone But Not Forgotten: Creating a Memory Album (pdf | 169K)
  
• Grief, An Unpaid Bill (pdf | 119K)
  
• Helping Children Cope with Death and Grief (pdf | 167K)
  
• Holistic Concept of Care (pdf | 150K)
  
• Ideas for Letter Writing (pdf | 163K)
  
• Love Means Never Having to Say Goodbye (pdf | 157K)
  
• Memories (pdf | 170K)
  
• Moments of the Healing Process (pdf | 185K)
  
• Natural and Normal Grief Responses (pdf | 177K)
  
• No Shortcuts to Mourning (pdf | 168K)
  
• Not Forgetting (pdf | 160K)
  
• Recognizing Your Own Progress through Grief (pdf | 175K)
  
• Remarriage? (pdf | 156K)
  
• Roles (pdf | 155K)
  
• Self-Care Activities Inventory (pdf | 168K)
  
• Suggestions for Helping Yourself through Grief (pdf | 195K)
  
• The Four Tasks of Mourning (pdf | 172K)
  
• The Grieving Person's Bill of Rights (pdf | 158K)
  
• Understanding Different Family Grieving Patterns (pdf | 179K)
  
• We Remember Them (pdf | 141K)
  
• Why Do I Feel Guilty? (pdf | 168K)
  

Links

• Age Net
  
• American Cancer Society
  
• Arizona Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
  
• Cancer FAQ
  
• Department of Health and Human Services
  
• Grief Healing
  
• Growth House
  
• Health Care Decisions
  
• Last Acts
  
• Medicare
  
• National Cancer Institute's Cancer Net
  
• National Hospice Organization
  
• You Can Make a Difference in the Lives That Follow