END OF LIFE PLANNING / HOSPICES
Table of Content
- Conversations Around Death & Dying
- End of Life Care Directives
- Hospices Network and Directories
- Spiritual Counselors
- Memorials
Conversations Around Death & Dying
This resource shares conversation tools for advance care planning, advance directives, and answers to your frequently asked questions.
A short documentary following the stories of three visionary medical providers, one of which is Zen Hospice Project, caring for and supporting those approaching the end of their lives.
Five approaches for caregivers to work with loss and grief
A blog by Zen Caregiving Project sharing mindfulness and compassion-based approaches to managing loss and grief.
Webinar on Working Mindfully with Grief
In this ZCP webinar we explore ways that mindfulness can help us truly experience the grief that is present for us, allowing us to accept more and suffer less.
Podcast on Dying and Death in the Zen Tradition On Shapes of Grief
In this podcast, our Executive Director, Roy Remer, speaks about death and dying in the Zen tradition.
End of Life Care Directives
The Coalition for Compassionate Care of California (CCCC) provides advance instructions and information on advance directives in different languages.
This interactive site provides templates, resources, and toolkits to help you with planning for your future care. Spanish versions of all site documents are also available.
Five Wishes: Advance Care Directive Form
A program of Aging with Dignity, Five Wishes is a booklet ( paper or online) that guides you through planning for end of life. It also facilitates conversations with family and friends about your future medical, spiritual, emotional, and physical needs. It is America’s most popular living will, with more than 35 million copies in circulation.
The Prepare for Your Care website caters to people with minimal to no computer experience. They walk visitors through basic advance care planning steps with prompts and videos to help people get started. The website is also available in Spanish.
A workbook designed by Ariadne Labs with The Conversation Project to help people with a serious illness get ready to talk to their health care team about what is most important to them.
Hospices Network and Directories
By The Bay Healthcare Professionals
By the Bay Health works closely with community physicians to ensure the highest quality end-of-life care for their patients, regardless of what service they choose.
A directory of certified end-of-life doulas thoroughly trained in all three phases of end-of-life care.
Sponsored by the Hospice Foundation of America, HospiceDirectory.org provides a national database to locate hospices by location and/or name, as well as links to additional information for both caregivers and patients.
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO)
Part of the NHPCO’s website, the Patient and Caregiver pages provide free resources on a range of topics, including deciding palliative care, hospice care, advance care planning, caregiving, and loss. Their resources are practical, clear, and easy to read.
Spiritual Counselors
A list of spiritual directors with interfaith understanding and practice.
A directory of faith-based therapists and other mental health professionals around the country.
Memorials
The bathing ritual, in which a body is bathed after the person has died, has been a part of Zen Caregiving Project’s rituals since it was founded. This blog explains its significance as a grief ritual.
A company offering interactive and collaborative remote memorial services enabling five to 500 family and friends to memorialize, eulogize, and celebrate a deceased loved one. From afar, family, friends, and community will virtually attend your loved one’s end-of-life celebration.