Advance Care Planning |
| All on the Same Page: Video on Advanced Care Planning | Short video describing the process of advance care planning. |
| Advance Care Planning Kit | An in-depth explanation of advanced care planning, with descriptions of advance directives and substitute decision makers |
| Intro Video on Advanced Care Planning | Short video describing the process of advance care planning. |
| Intro Video on Advance Directives | Short video outlining advance directives and how they function. |
| Health Care Consent and Advance Care Planning, The Basics | A description of the process of advance care planning, with a specific look to the concerns of consent in the health care context |
| Discharge from Hospital to Long-Term Care: Issues in Ontario | An assessment and discussion surrounding the issues of discharge from hospital to long term care |
| CPR Decision Aid – CARENET | Brochure outlining the details of CPR and the process of deciding whether or not a loved one ought to receive CPR* |
| Home First” Is it Right for You? | A discussion of the relevant factors of the home first approach to long term care |
Consent and Capacity |
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| Government of Canada | What every older Canadian should know about: Powers of attorney (for financial matters and property) and joint bank accounts |
| Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General | Make a power of attorney* |
| What is a Power of Attorney – Willful Wills* | What is a Power of Attorney – Willful Wills* |
| Government of Ontario | Powers of Attorney, Questions and Answers* |
| A Guide to the Substitute Decisions Act, 1992* | |
| University Health Network | Making Health Care Decisions for Other People* |
| Trillium Health Partners | A Guide to Powers of Attorney for Personal Care* |
| A 5 Part video series on Substitute Decision Making* | |
| A Guide to Substitute Decision Making* | |
Food and Feeding |
| National Institute for Nursing Research | Making Choices: Feeding Options for Patients with Dementia. (Print Decision Aid)* |
Palliative Care |
| BMJ | Should elderly patients be told they have cancer? Questionnaire survey of older people |
| College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. | Advice to the Profession: Planning for and Providing Quality End-of-Life Care. |
| Pallium Canada | Palliative Care Resources. |
| Olsen M et al. | Ethical decision-making with end-of-life care: Palliative sedation and withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment. |
| Berry ZS | Responding to suffering: providing options and respecting choice. |
Moral distress |
Research Ethics |
| Tri Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans | TCPS 2 (2022) |
| TCPS 2 CORE Training | Free Research Ethics Course |
| Canadian Association of Research Ethics Boards | CAREB |
| Clinical Trials Ontario | CTO |
| Bioethics websites: some of our favourites |
| Impact Ethics | Impact ethics is a Canadian health ethics blog |
| Nuffield Council on Bioethics | A UK based Bioethics society |
| Joint Centre for Bioethics | This is a University of Toronto based Joint Centre for Bioethics |
Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) |
Patient oriented |
Journal Articles |
| Quill T. | Responding to a Request for Hastening Death. |
| Monforte-Royo C et al. (2012) | What lies behind the wish to hasten death? (A systematic review and meta-ethnography from the perspective of patients) |
| Wax JW | Voluntary Stopping Eating and Drinking |
HCP Oriented |
Elder abuse |
