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Videos in Clinical Medicine from The New England Journal of Medicine — Family Meetings on Behalf of Patients with Serious Illness

These tools for palliative care programs, drawn from best practices in palliative care program design, are curated, proven resources for building or strengthening your program.

Learn skills that matter. VitalTalk’s free resources are organized into topics (or “tools”) that all clinicians need. Within each tool below are a series of related videos and access to “Quick Guides”…

How to build relationships with family and promote patient-centered care.

Family Conference: Bringing family members into the conversation

National Resources Click a topic below for a list of resources collected and cultivated to benefit patients and loved ones: ADVANCE DECISION-MAKING TOOLS ALZHEIMER’S RESOURCES BEREAVEMENT GROUPS BLOGS…

Share Print Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering have pioneered the use of prediction tools known as nomograms to help patients and physicians make important treatment decisions. These tools are ba…

University of California Television provides informational, educational, and enrichment television programming to the public and draws upon the vast intellectual, scientific, and creative talents of t…

The Mini-Nutritional Assessment Short-Form (MNA®-SF) is a screening tool used to identify older adults (> 65 years) who are malnourished or at risk of malnutrition.

CCCC joined with Choosing Wisely to provide resources for consumers and physicians to engage in conversations about overuse or misuse of medical tests and procedures.

Find resources here in Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Armenian, Hmong and Farsi.

The aim of END GAME screenings is to engage a wide and diverse range of communities – multi-ethnic and cultural, in rural, suburban and urban settings —in conversations about end-of-life and end-of-li…

Decision Aids are an educational series designed by the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California (CCCC) that explains the complex topics of life-sustaining treatments, using consumer-friendly la…

View a list of some commonly used mobile device applications for geriatric health care professionals, provided as a convenience by the Aging Institute.

Ebell et al developed a simple prearrest point score that can identify patients unlikely to survive in-hospital cardiac arrest neurologically intact or with min

Now that you know your wishes, it’s time to prepare all the necessary legal documents and make your plan. You will find everything you need to ensure that your end-of-life wishes will be recorded.

Learn why you should consider POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment), a legal form that helps aging adults get better end-of-life care.

View a list of malnutrition screening and assessment tools.

GO-FAR calculator to estimate the chance of good outcomes following CPR in the hospital.