Aging with Dignity is a non-profit organization that defends the rights of all people as they approach the end of life. Our Five Wishes advance care planning program has helped bring peace and comfort to over 44 million families.

TalkDeath encourages generative conversations around death and dying as a hub for death-conscious education, advocacy, and community.

Offers educational, informational, and recreational programs and activities for local Seniors. A partial list of frequently offered programming includes: aerobics, yoga, core strength and balance, watercolor painting, and more.

Senior services, including short-term personal home care services, Meals-on-Wheels, health insurance support.

Providing care and information to support independent living including respite care, transportation, home-delivered meals, home health care, counseling and support, caregiver supports, and more.

Provides nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, home health aide, dietician, and social work services for patients in their homes and in St Peters affilitated hospital systems.

Dismantles the cultural expectation that grief should be solved or healed quickly. Reframes grief as a natural response to love and loss, not a pathology to fix. Widely used in grief circles.

The cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project and pioneer behind the compassionate care movement shares an inspiring exploration of the lessons dying has to offer about living a fulfilling life.

Profoundly moving, beautifully written, The Wild Edge of Sorrow is a balm for the soul and a necessary salve for moving together through difficult times. Grounded in ritual and connection, this book welcomes each grief with care and attention, opening us to the feelings, experiences, and sacred knowledge that connect us to each other and ultimately make us whole.

A companion to The Wild Edge of Sorrow, structured with reflections, rituals, and meditations to help readers move through Weller's Five Gates of Grief in an embodied, gradual way.

A deeply moving memoir about losing her mother and navigating Korean-American identity through food, memory, and grief. 

A spiritual memoir exploring identity, belonging, trauma, and existential grief through a nonbinary and Nigerian cultural lens.

A memoir about family, cultural inheritance, and grief after the death of her grandmother.

An anthology of disabled voices exploring embodiment, identity loss, and community that broadens how we understand grief around changing bodies.

A chronic illness memoir about identity loss, navigating medical systems, and the grief of a body that doesn't behave as expected.

Essays on racialized emotional life, the grief embedded in invisibility, diaspora, and living in a body that is read as "other."

Indigenous ecological knowledge and relationship with the living world. Grief appears through ecological loss, colonial disruption, and the severing of reciprocal relationships with land.

This overview of Macy's innovative work combines deep ecology, general systems theory, and the Buddha's teachings on interdependent co-arising. At its heart it is a book about how to love a world that is suffering — and how that love, rather than leading to despair, can be the ground of engagement. She does not shy away from discussing death; she situates us as ancestors to those who will come after. Essential reading for anyone doing ecological or community grief work, or anyone struggling with the grief of watching the world change.

Johnson brings together somatic practices, social justice frameworks, and contemplative traditions to address grief that lives in communities — particularly the grief of racism, violence, and systemic harm.

Honest, sometimes funny, always human storytelling about grief and what comes after loss.

Explores grief specifically in Black communities, intersections with career, motherhood, spirituality, and identity. 

Indigenous hosts discuss culture, kinship, land, and intergenerational grief in a way that expands our understanding of grief as relational and communal.

Political conversations about healthcare, structural violence, and the systemic dimensions of death and loss.

An online and IRL magazine for those living with grief (and actually living).

Guidance with managing care, covered by Medicare. Included are coordinated referrals to home care, transportation, in-home providers, safety equipment, medication oversight, benefits navigation, and Medicaid advocacy.

Senior services, including meals, short-term personal home care services, Meals-on-Wheels, health insurance support. 

Providing assistance, support and guidance to seriously ill people and their families. You or your family can begin by contacting The Community Hospice directly at 518-724-0242.

Provides nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, home health aide, dietician, and social work services for patients in their homes, as well as staffing support for the System's four hospitals: Albany Medical Center, Columbia Memorial Health, Glens Falls Hospital, and Saratoga Hospital.

When someone receives a diagnosis of dementia, it’s a stressful time for both the patient and their loved ones. While you’ll likely have many questions about the condition, one of the biggest concerns caregivers have is how the necessary care will be paid for. Long term medical care can get expensive fast and put a strain on the finances of loved ones, but for patients that qualify, disability insurance is available to help offset the cost of care.

A pioneering study of how to navigate life's biggest transitions with meaning, purpose, and skill. Feiler spent years collecting hundreds of life stories in all fifty states from Americans who'd been through major life changes — from losing jobs to losing loved ones; from changing careers to changing relationships. His research shows that the average life transition lasts five years, and that most of us are in one at any given moment. The framework is accessible and secular, making it a good bridge for those who are grieving roles, identity shifts, or the loss of a particular version of their life.

Short and piercing. A meditation written after the sudden death of her father during the pandemic. Captures the disorientation of sudden loss and how grief reshapes reality moment by moment.

Providing support for caregivers and loved ones as well, Anne-Marie explores self-care methods for moving with grief, ideas for “things to do” when there is nothing to do, and mindfulness practices for contemplating your own mortality. She also offers visualizations and techniques for talking with children about death and dying.

A memoir-guide blending personal grief with reflections on how loss shapes identity, relationships, and leadership.

Written by a death doula, this book explores mortality awareness as a way of deepening presence in life. Reflective and grounded in end-of-life practice.

Heart-wrenching and humorous, this book is an unflinching account of bereavement and a unique look at the magnetism of an extraordinary beast.

A disability justice framework that includes grief, survival, collective care, and the limits of individual resilience.

Drawing on twenty-plus years of facilitation and mediation work with movement groups, this book is about attending to coordination, to conflict, to being humans in right relationship — not as a constant state, but as an ever-evolving dynamic. It explicitly names grief as an essential dimension of social change, and offers tools for holding loss inside collective processes. Half brown's own writing, half an anthology of Black feminist wisdom on facilitation. Practical and visionary.

A profound shift for many readers. Wade explores how grief intersects with anti-Blackness, healthcare inequity, and cultural silence around death. 

A somatic exploration of racialized trauma and intergenerational grief held in the body that can help us understand how history lives in our nervous systems.

Written for those feeling the weight of collective acceleration — when institutions crumble and the expected patterns fail — this is a book about learning to inhabit thresholds rather than flee them. Rōshi Norma Wong, a Rinzai Zen priest and Native Hawaiian community leader, weaves Zen wisdom, Indigenous teachings, and quantum physics to help us understand how to create a different way forward. As a grief resource, it offers something rarer than comfort: the capacity to be present with dissolution itself, moving from "I" to "we" without bypassing the sorrow of what's ending.

An anthology of essays by activists grappling with grief across many forms of loss — from the death of loved ones to the slow erosion of communities, ecosystems, and dreams. Milstein gathers voices that refuse to privatize grief, insisting instead that mourning together is a political act.

In this interactive streaming show Anderson Cooper talks live with guests and listeners about their grief and the losses they’ve experienced. 

Long-form conversations with comedians, artists, and public figures about how grief shapes a life, allowing us to hear the texture of grief in real voices.

Interviews and stories that normalize conversations about grief across different life experiences.

A website chock full of grief related resources.