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Local Support and Resources
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- AVOID Frailty: Click on “Access Community Resources” button. Or Call 613 483-9399. Eastern Ontario Community Navigation or call 211.
- Frontenac, Lennox & Addington Ontario Health Team: Find Services
- Mental Health/Addictions Support or call 1 833-527-8207
- Ontario Health 811: call 811.
- Everything Frontenac
- Southern Frontenac Community Services Corporation or call 613 376-6477.
- Advanced Care Planning Ontario
Advance Care Planning
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- Advance Care Planning in Ontario
- Advance Care Planning Canada
- Ontario Powers of Attorney: Powers of Attorney
- Dying With Dignity Canada
- Advocacy In Aging: a new book based on true stories by Mark Seguin, Ottawa. Subtitle: Building your team for the seamless transition of personal care and estate management. Order from the website.
- Plan Well Guide
- The Conversation Project: A public engagement initiative with a goal that is both simple and transformative: to help everyone talk about their wishes for care through the end of life, so those wishes can be understood and respected.
- How to Prepare Yourself for a Good End of Life by Katy Butler
- The Art of Dying Well by Katy Butler
- The public health of death, dying, and grief has been neglected, but now is the time By Richard Smith
- Death Over Dinner: an uplifting interactive adventure that transforms this seemingly difficult conversation into one of deep engagement, insight and empowerment. We invite you to gather friends and family and fill a table.
- Go Wish: Values and beliefs game (click on bottom left square for free online use)
- Dealing with a devastating life-threatening diagnosis – The Gini Rosen Story
- What is Self Directed Care – CTV News Article
- Talking About Death Won’t Kill You: An Essenital Guide to End-of-Life Conversations by Kathy Kortes-Miller
- Talking About Death Won’t Kill You Ted Talk
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in The End by Atul Gawande
- Extreme Measures: Finding A Better Path To The End Of Life by MD Jessica Nutik Zitter
- Die Wise: A Manifesto For Sanity And Soul by Stephen Jenkinson
- They Left Us Everything: A Memoir by Plum Johnson
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
- Crow: A Novel by Amy Spurway
- Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant
- A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
- A Good Death: Making the Most of Our Final Choices by Sandra Martin
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
- Patrimony by Philip Roth
- On Grief and Greiving by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
- A Bittersweet Season: Caring for our Aging Parents and Ourselves by Jane Gross
- Extraordinary by Miriam Spitzer Franklin
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- A Man Called Ove By Fredik Backman
- Can’t we talk about something more pleasant? by Roz Chast
- The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe
- The Funeral by Matt James
- Saturday Night Widows By Becky Aikman
- Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
- The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning by Margareta Magnusson
- With the End in Mind by Kathryn Mannix
- The Groundswell Project, Australia: A Library on Death Literacy
- To Die Well, We Must Talk About Death Before The End of Life Article
- Life Support is a New Digital Tool to Help us Talk About Death Article
- Older Patient Engagement in Advance Care Planning in Canadian Primary Care Practice: A Survey
- Although most elderly patients prefer only comfort measures at the end-of-life, life-sustaining technologies are increasingly being used in the final stages of life
- Studies into ACP tools for long-term care suggest that the tools with psychosocial content may improve uptake of ACP in long-term care
- Archaeology and contemporary death: Using the past to provoke, challenge and engage
- Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID): This subject is not part of our Advance Care Planning Sessions. However, a person wishing to choose MAiD must follow the application process provided on the Government of Ontario website. Currently, providing consent in advance of a specific date is not allowed. If you think you qualify for MAiD and want to know more, speak with your doctor or nurse practitioner who will answer your questions and, if you meet the criteria, assist you should you decide to choose MAiD.
Compassionate Communities
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- In Support of a Compassionate Community – The Whig Article
- Pallium Canada – The Compassionate Communities Exchange: a digital space to contribute to the conversations surrounding Compassionate Communities in Canada—learn from the inspiring work of other community champions across Canada and discover new resources to help you launch community-wide change.
- Abundant Community Edmonton: a grassroots initiative fostering neighbour to neighbour relationships.
- Compassionate Cities: Public Health and End-of-life Care by Allan Kellehear
- The Compassion Project: The true story of the town that beat loneliness by Dr Julian Abel and Lindsay Clarke
- Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
- Soft City: Building Density for Everyday Life by David Sim
- Enabling better aging: The 4 things seniors need, and the 4 things that need to change
- The Canadian Index of Wellbeing National Report