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How Do I Start My Advance Care Planning?

Advanced Planning

Coalition for Compassionate Care of California

This resource shares conversation tools for advance care planning, advance directives, and answers to your frequently asked questions.

Compassion and Choices

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.

Prepare for Your Care

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.

Five Wishes

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 Conversation Project

The Conversation Project® is a public engagement initiative with a goal that is both simple and transformative: to have every person’s wishes for end-of-life care expressed and respected. The Conversation Project believes that the place for this to begin is at the kitchen table—not in the intensive care unit—with the people we love before it’s too late. The Conversation Project offers tools, guidance, and resources to begin talking with loved ones about yours and their wishes.

Five Useful Resources to Learn About and Explore Palliative and End-of-Life Care

A Beginners Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death

Written by BJ Miller (a previous Zen Hospice Project Executive Director) and Shoshana Berger, Director at IDEO, this book is a practical guide to approaching the end of life. It includes instructions on everything from navigating the health care system, to talking to your children about your will, to writing a great eulogy.

Get Palliative Care

This website provides clear and comprehensive information on palliative care for people living with a serious illness, or those caring for them. It includes detailed descriptions of what palliative care does and how to access it, videos and podcasts on the topic, and a directory of Palliative Care providers across the US. 

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.  

Compassion and Choices

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.

HospiceDirectory.org

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.

Tour of the Guest House

VICE Media took a tour of the Zen Caregiving Guest House that was open between 1990 and 2018. This video shares what they captured.

3-minute Guided Meditations

We are pleased to support your caregiving with a variety of guided meditations led by our Mindful Caregiving Education instructors. Below you will find several three-minute long meditations. We hope you will remember these whenever you need a break from your busy day or busy mind. If you enjoy these meditations, please drop us a line so we can produce more.  

By Roy Remer

By Mary Doane

By Alistair Shanks

5-minute Guided Meditations

We are pleased to support your caregiving with a variety of guided meditations led by our Mindful Caregiving Education instructors. Below you will find several five-minute long meditations. We hope you will remember these whenever you need a break from your busy day or busy mind. If you enjoy these meditations, please drop us a line so we can produce more.  

By Roy Remer

By Mary Doane

By Alistair Shanks

10-minute Guided Meditations

We are pleased to support your caregiving with a variety of guided meditations led by our Mindful Caregiving Education instructors. Below you will find several ten-minute long meditations. We hope you will remember these whenever you need a break from your busy day or busy mind. If you enjoy these meditations, please drop us a line so we can produce more.  

By Roy Remer

By Mary Doane

By Alistair Shanks

Meditaciones Guiadas

Nos complace apoyar su atención con una variedad de meditaciones guiadas dirigidas por nuestra instructora de Educación de Atención Plena, Teresa Bouza. A continuación encontrará meditaciones de tres, cinco y diez minutos. Esperamos que los recuerde siempre que necesite un descanso de su ajetreado día o de su mente ocupada. Si disfrutas de estas meditaciones, escríbenos para que podamos producir más.

Meditación de 3 minutos

Meditación de 5 minutos

Meditación de 10 minutos

 

Versiones en Español de la Meditación Guiada – Spanish versions of Guided Meditations

Nos complace apoyar su cuidado con una variedad de meditaciones guiadas dirigidas por nuestros instructores de Edcación para el Cuidado Consciente. A continuación encontrará meditaciones de tres, cinco y diez minutos de duración en español. Esperamos que los recuerde siempre que necesite un descanso de su ajetreado día o de su mente ocupada. Si disfrutas de estas meditaciones, escríbenos para que podamos producir más.

We are pleased to support your caregiving with a variety of guided meditations led by our Mindful Caregiving Education instructors. Below you will find three-minute, five-minute, and ten-minute long meditations in Spanish. We hope you will remember these whenever you need a break from your busy day or busy mind. If you enjoy these meditations, please drop us a line so we can produce more.  

By Teresa Bouza

Listen: ED Roy Remer Spoke About Our Own Death at TEDxTahoeCity

ED Roy Remer spoke about our relationship with our own death at TEDxTahoeCity in September of 2016.

We all know we will die. Why do so few of us choose to cultivate a relationship to our own death throughout life? In this talk Roy Remer shares his thoughts and stories on keeping death close as a way to prepare and a way to live life fully.

We’ve recently uploaded the audio to SoundCloud of Roy’s talk, “Our Relationship to Our Own Death (and Life).”

List of Resources on Loss, Death & Dying

Facing our own death, or that of a friend or family member, often elicits powerful emotions. To support us through this process Zen Caregiving Project have created a list of webinars, blogs, articles and websites that focus on death, dying and grief.

We hope these resources are helpful and encourage you to share them with anyone you feel may benefit from them.

Exploring Death and Dying

Want to talk about death? You’re not alone. This page lists a number of organizations and websites that explore death from all angles, and encourage discussion around loss and death.

Grief Support Resources

Coping with grief can be painful and challenging. Here we provide some resources and links to other organizations that can support you in your grieving process.

A List to Reduce Work for Your Next-of-Kin

In this blog, Donna Woodward, a hospice volunteer, shares a useful checklist and templates to help us get our affairs in order before we die, reducing work for those who survive us.

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.

Caregiver Corner: Working with Loss

This recording for Caring Across Generation’s Caregiver Corner shares techniques and practices for managing losses, big and small.

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.

Explaining the Bathing Ritual

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.