In the News!  Deva Nation Model/Partner City in Frome, England

• The Resurgence & Ecologist Mar/April 2018 Compassion is the best medicine
  

• itv England, Feb 2018 Tackling the growing pressures on our hospitals, Frome England
  

• The Guardian Feb 21, 2018 A potent cure for illness - community

Just published in the British Journal of General Practice: Reducing emergency hospital admissions:  A population health complex intervention of an enhanced model of primary care and compassionate communities   

>> Read the "Deva Nation Community Needs/Asset Assessment Report" (Greater Mankato Area Interview Report).
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Compassionate Communities for End of Life Care Info:

• Palliative Care - the new essentials - Article: Abel, Kellehear, Karapliagou - Annals of Palliative Medicine, accepted for publication 3/18

• Compassionate Communities for End of Life Care - ABSTRACT: Dr. Julian Abel Journal of the Royal college of Physicians 2/1/18

• Circles of care: should community development redefine the practice of palliative care? ABSTRACT: Dr. Julian Abel, et al. BMJ 3/26/13

• Why should we develop compassionate communities? - Publication: Dying Matters, National Voice of Hospice, UK

• An Overview of Compassionate Communities in the U.K. - Publication: National Council for Palliative Care Dying Matters, UK

• The Groundswell Project - Australia's Compassionate Community

• Pallium Palliative Care Education - Canada's Compassionate Communities

• End of Life at Home: Co-creating an Ecology of Care - Research Summary Publication: Australia

• Each Community is Prepared to Help: Community Development in End of Life Care - Toolkit: Community development, UK

• Public Health Approaches to End of Life Care - Toolkit: Public Health England, The National Council Palliative Care, UK

Organizations and Resources:

• Assisted Living Options for People Living with Disabilities

• Caring Bridge

• Chesley Center on Aging

• Conscious Dying Institute

• Conversation Project

• Crescent Cove Respite & Hospice Home for Kids

• Dougy Center - Developmental Responses to Grief

• Greater Mankato Diversity Council

• Honoring Choices Minnesota

• INELDA

• Lotsa Helping Hands

• Mankato ACT on Alzheimer's

• MCDES - MN Coalition for Death Education and Support

• Minnesota Help

• Minnesota Threshold Network

• Minnesota Network of Hospice and Palliative Care

• Minnesota River Area Agency on Aging

• National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization

• Public Health Palliative Care International

• The Soul Remains

• Third Messenger

• Vine Faith in Action

• We Can Die Better

Advanced Health Care Directive Tool Kits & Games  - AHCD or ACD:

An advance healthcare directive, also known as living will, personal directive, advance directive, medical directive or advance decision, is a legal document in which a person specifies what actions should be taken for their health if they are no longer able to make decisions for themselves because of illness or incapacity.

• All Ready to Go - Create your own death binder - AHCD + Guide to organizing papers & digital life + Celebration of Life

• Death and Dying Toolkit - Variety of resources including, music, videos, meditations, planning tools + articles

• Five Wishes - America's most popular AHCD, easy to use legal document, everyday language - available $5 or Online

• POLST - Standing medical orders for patients with serious illness or frailty, often used in addition to Advanced Directives

• Good-to-Go Toolkit - Compassion and Choices, Unique care & choice directives including dementia, and assisted living provisions

• Prepare for Your Care - Five Steps using videos to help you answer questions + print summary of your wishes + easy to read Advance Care Planning forms

• The Go Wish Game - Card game for prioritizing your end of life wishes, order deck or play online

• HELLO - Conversation game about what matter's most