Innovations in End-of-Life Care
an international journal of leaders in end-of-life care

I. Tools and Websites Related to this Issue's Contributors:

Film produced by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs:
Alzheimer's Disease: Natural Feeding Techniques
A 14-minute video that demonstrates how caregiving staff manage feeding difficulties for patients in the late stage of Alzheimer's. Includes three case studies that show how oral feeding techniques as opposed to tube feeding, can decrease infection, increase patient comfort and improve overall quality of life for the patient.

For more information contact:
Terra Nova Films
9848 S. Winchester Avenue
Chicago, IL 60643
telephone: (800) 779-8491
fax: (773) 881-3368
or visit their website at http://www.terranova.org

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VA Faculty Leaders Project for improved care at the end of life
http://www.va.gov/oaa/flp/
The VA Faculty Leaders Project is a two-year initiative of the Office of
Academic Affiliations, Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), to develop benchmark curricula for end-of-life care and palliative care as well as strategies for their implementation, for training resident physicians.  This project is supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Dementia Services Development Centre
http://www.stir.ac.uk/dsdc
The Dementia Services Development Centre is part of the Applied Social Science Department, Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland. Professor Mary Marshall, interviewed in this issue's International Perspectives Department directs this centre. Its purpose is to assist in the development and improvement of services for people with dementia and their carers. This website has extensive resources and tools including Specialist Reading Lists for people wanting to lead training sessions with staff at http://www.stir.ac.uk/dsdc/readlist.htm. You can also test your dementia knowledge at this site and have your quiz results scored immediately at http://www.stir.ac.uk/dsdc/QQuest.html.

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EACH: The European Alzheimer Clearing House  http://www.each.be/
The European Alzheimer Clearing House aims to bring together initiatives in dementia care in the European Union in order to make better use of existing information and expertise and to put forward and select examples of good practice  in the field of care for patients with Alzheimer Disease and related disorders.  This website is financed by the European Community and offers a search engine and a wide variety of substantive information on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias of interest to health care professionals and researchers.   This site offers many reports that can be downloaded directly including information on "Good Practice" at http://www.each.be/introduction/WP2/GoodPractices.htm

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II.  Other Web Resources

The following brief list of resources and tools includes some targeted to patients with dementia and their families and others to health care professionals.