
For Adults
- MyGrief.ca
- Preparing Emotionally for Disasters or Emergencies
- Psychological First Aid After a Disaster
- Recovery after a Disaster or Emergency
- Responding to a Disaster or Emergency
- Sleep Disturbances
Special Event & Holidays
- Help for the Holidays
- The Year I Ran Away From Christmas
- When Bad Things Happen
- When the Holidays Hurt
Suggested Books for Adults
- Catching Your Breath in Grief by Thomas Attig
- Healing Your Grieving Soul by Alan Wolfelt
- How We Grieve: Relearning the World by Thomas Attig
- Living a Life that Matters by Harold S. Kushner
- Option B: Finding Adversity, Building Resilience and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg
- The Heart of Grief: Death and the Search for Lasting Love by Thomas Attig
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For Caregivers Coping with Advanced Illness
- A Guide for Caregivers
- CareChannel Resource Library
- Emotional Journey of Caregiving
- Caregiver Alberta: Programs & Services Brochure
- Caregiver Alberta: Community Programs
- Caregiver Coaching
- Caregiver Connect
- Caregivers Guide: A Handbook about End of Life Care
- Caregivers Lighthouse
- Calgary Seniors Volunteer Respite for Caregivers
- Caregivers: Put on Your Own Oxygen Mask First
- Caregiver Support Program Online Training
- Canadian Virtual Hospice
- Family Conversations about MAID
- Living with Advanced Illness Brochure
- PEOLC Resources
- Sleep Disturbances
- Stories for Caregivers
- Support for Alzheimer's and Dementia Caregivers
- Talking to Children About Life-Threatening Illness
- Talking To Teens about Life-Threatening Illness
- When the Holidays Hurt
- When Grief Goes to School
- Video -- Tips for Caregivers
Suggested Books
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
- The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying by Nina Riggs
- The Grace in Dying: A Message of Hope, Comfort and Spiritual Transformation by Kathleen Dowling Singh
- Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
- Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying by Ram Dass, Bush Mirabai
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi








For those Living with Advanced Illness & their Families
- Alberta Cancer Exercise Brochure
- Canadian Virtual Hospice
- Child Grief & Life-Threatening Illness in the Family
- Chinese Patients With Cancer at the End of Life
- Family Conversations about MAID
- Grief in the Workplace
- I Did it My Way: Aging Well To The End
- Life's Last Chapter
- Living with Advanced Illness Brochure
- Living with Cancer Program
- Should My Child Attend the Funeral?
- Talking To Children about Life-Threatening Illness
- Teen Grief & Life-Threatening Illness in the Family
- The Grieving Colleague: 10 Do's and Don't's
- Palliative Care Resources
- When Grief Goes to School
- When the Holidays Hurt
Suggested Books
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul GawaBrocnde
- The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying by Nina Riggs
- The Grace in Dying: A Message of Hope, Comfort and Spiritual Transformation by Kathleen Dowling Singh
- Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying by Ram Dass, Bush Mirabai
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
View the full bibliography








For those Planning Advanced Care at End of Life
Palliative Care at End of Life
- AHS Palliative Care Resource Listing
- Alberta Hospice Palliative Care Association
- Life's Last Chapter
- Living My Culture
- I Did it My Way: Aging Well To The End
- Memorial Society of Alberta
Financial Management
- Canada Pension Survivors Benefit
- Canadian Virtual Hospice: Patient Benefits
- Compassionate Benefits Program
Funeral Planning








For Professionals & Volunteers Working in Palliative Care
- Alberta Health Services Infection Prevention & Control
- Canadian Virtual Hospice
- Chinese Patients with Cancer at the End of Life
- Family Conversations about MAID
- Life's Last Chapter
- Living with Advanced Illness Brochure
- Musings of a Hospice Chaplain
- My Health Alberta: Palliative and End of Life Care
- St. John Ambulance and The Order of St. Lazarus
Our Practice at Rosedale Hospice
Mindfulness Practice
- Centre for Mindfulness in Medicine Health Care and Society
- Local Learning & Practice Opportunities
- New York Zen Centre for Contemplative Care
- Room Blessing
- Shift Change Blessing
- University of Rochester Medical Centre Family Medicine Mindful Practice
- Upaya Zen Centre
Suggested Books
- A Place of Healing by Joni Eareckson Tada
- A Year to Live by Stephen Levine
- Being with Dying by Joan Halifax, Ira Byock
- Crossing Over: Narratives of Palliative Care by David Barnard
- Dying Well by Ira Byock
- Heal Thy Self: Lessons on Mindfulness in Medicine by Saki Santorelli
- Mindfulness-Based Cancer Recovery by Linda E. Carlson, Michael Speca
- My Grandfather's Blessings : Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging by Rachel Naomi Remen
- Resilience in Palliative Care Achievement in Adversity by Barbara Monroe
- The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully by Frank Ostaseki
- The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, And The Human Condition by Arthur Kleinman
- The Nature of Suffering: And the Goals of Medicine by Eric J. Cassell
- Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying by Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine
- With the End in Mind by Kathryn Mannix








For Professionals & Volunteers Working with Children, Teens and Families
- Canadian Virtual Hospice
- Children's Grief Centre Brochure
- Informing a Child of a Death
- Living with Advanced Illness Brochure
- KidsGrief.ca
- MyGrief.ca
Suggested References
- Continuing Bonds: New Understandings of Grief by Dennis Klass
- Never Too Young to Know: Death in Children's Lives by Phyllis Rolfe Silverman
- Predictors and Parameters of Resilience to Loss: Toward an Individual Differences Model by A. D. Mancini, G. A. Bonanno
- The Dual Process Model of Coping with Bereavement by M. Stroebe, H. Schut
- The Grieving Person's Bill of Rights by Alan Wolfelt
View the full grief bibliography