Links Tools and Resources

Resources and Support for Grief, Bereavement, and Loss 

Websites offering information and resources for grief support: 

• Understanding Grief and its Impact
• Guide to internet resources for grief support, sorted into various categories
• Grief and bereavement—an overview
• Comprehensive website dedicated to grief support  
• Responding to COVID-19 Grief, Loss, Bereavement—website with multiple resources related to pandemic impact  
• Grief support for all ages, including resources in Spanish
• HelpGuide—Coping with Grief and Loss
• Children’s Bereavement Center: Resources for talking to kids about grief, and more
• Care for families grieving the loss of a loved one in the military service
• Resources for those grieving from a sudden death
• Understanding different cultures and how they grieve 

Articles and podcasts on grief and bereavement: 

• Grief, bereavement, and mourning—a basic overview
• “Too Much Loss:  Coping with Grief Overload”
• “That Discomfort You’re Feeling is Grief”
• “How to Cope with Grief Amid COVID-19”
• “Grief and COVID-19: Mourning our bygone lives”
•  Accepting and making peace with grief
•  Grief and creativity, and grief in the context of gender/ sexuality (podcast)  
• “How Men Grieve”

Scholarly Articles on Grief during the COVID-19 Pandemic  

• “Supporting Adults Bereaved Through COVID-19: A Rapid Review of the Impact of Previous Pandemics on Grief and Bereavement.”  
• “Grief During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Considerations for Palliative Care Providers.” 
•  “Managing Bereavement around the Coronavirus (COVID-19).”  
•  “Bereavement in the Time of Coronavirus: Unprecedented Challenges Demand Novel Interventions.” 
•  “Complicated Grief: What to Expect After the Coronavirus Pandemic.”
•  “Loss and grief amidst COVID-19: A path to adaptation and resilience.”  
•  “Grief and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Older Adults.” 

Planning for Future Healthcare Needs: Resources, Information and Support for Advance Care Planning (ACP) 

Websites offering comprehensive information and toolkits for Advance Care Planning: 

• The Conversation Project:  A comprehensive online guide to planning for your care, including toolkits, information, and resources  
• Information and resources from the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO)
• Advance Care Planning—website of the National Institute on Aging, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 
• The Five Wishes Toolkit—a guided approach to advance care planning 
• ACP toolkits and Resources from the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California:  https://coalitionccc.org/tools-resources/advance-care-planning-resources/ 
• Prepare for your Care—advance directive forms for CA in 11 different languages, guides to advance care planning, and more  
• Advance Care Planning:  Glossary of Terms  
• Advance Care Planning Guide:  List of Resources
• Alzheimer’s Association guide to advance care planning  
• Advance Directive designed for dementia patients  
• California Advance Health Care Directive—Online electronic form 
• English—Spanish translation of ACP terms, definitions, and clinical Q&A scripts 

Articles: 

• “Advance Care Planning: Ensuring Your Wishes Are Known and Honored If You Are Unable to Speak for Yourself.” (Centers for Disease Control, Healthy Aging Initiative)
• “I’m Young and Healthy: Why Do I Need an Advance Health Care Directive?”
• “Why Millennials Should Have an Advance Directive.” 
• “Why High School Seniors Need an Advance Directive.” 
• “How to Create an Advance Directive in California.”  
• “Advance Care Planning for Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease.” 
• “With Dementia, More is Needed than a Boilerplate Advance Directive.” 

Scholarly Articles: 

• “Failure to Engage Hospitalized Elderly Patients and Their Families in Advance Care Planning.”  
• “Tending to all their needs: Advance care planning for pediatric patients.”
• “Ethics and Advance Care Planning in a Culturally Diverse Society.” 
• “Ethical Challenges in Advance Care Planning During the COVID-19 Pandemic.”  
• “The Importance of Addressing Advance Care Planning and Decisions About Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders During Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19).”