Books
Gone From My Sight: The Dying Experience by Barbara Karnes
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Best Care Possible; A Physicians Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life by Ira Byock
Hard Choices for Loving People by Hank Dunn
Films
A glimpse of a hospice patient who chooses to stop artificial nutrition and hydration and his dying process
A beautiful portrayal of a woman dying from cancer and her experience being in our Western health care system
Blogs
A palliative care physician offers her insight and observations through years of experience
Palliative care blog that focuses on the older population
Links
Five Wishes
Center to Advance Palliative Care
Patient facing site that highlights real stories of people utilizing palliative care and how to locate a local provider
Colorado Palliative Care Guide
Colorado advance directive information
Toolkit for families to begin their own advance care planning conversation
Online storage of completed advance directives
The Guardian Alliance of Colorado
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
National Comprehensive Cancer Network
Tool for individuals to begin their own advance care planning