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Closure Primary Author: Jonathan Weinkle, Jewish Healthcare Foundation Closure is an initiative to change expectations for end-of-life. Our goal is to empower consumers and healthcare professionals with easy-to-access, simple-to-understand information and resources to make educated decisions about end-of-life care. The Closure website includes blogs, listings of resources, news items, and the Closure 101 curriculum. Closure 101 is a curriculum of educational lessons dealing with an array of complex end-of-life issues including prognosis, advance planning, medical decision making, and hospice and palliative care. These difficult concepts are explained in a way that is designed to make sense to consumers. The curriculum contains 12 easy-to-follow lessons that can be viewed online or used by health educators to teach in-person. In addition to the lessons, the site contains questionnaires and information sheets that can help guide a person through the decision-making process. Guidelines for creating a Closure 101 program are available on the site. Date Last Modified 04/04/2011 Website, Article, Continuing Education course, Course curriculum, Manual/guide

Religious Beliefs and Practices Affecting Health Care Primary Author: University of Virginia Health System, Department of Chaplaincy Services and Pastoral Education This booklet provides a brief overview of aspects of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism affecting health care. Print copies are available for order. Date Last Modified 01/14/2010 Manual/guide, On-the-job tool

The Medical Manual for Religio-Cultural Competence: Caring for Religiously Diverse Populations Primary Author: Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding This book "details how religious traditions and practices affect medical decisions in ten major world religions - Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Shinto, Traditional Chinese, American Indian & Alaska Natives and Afro-Caribbean." It is a guidebook for medical practice. Date Last Modified 12/01/2009 Book

A Dictionary of Patients' Spiritual & Cultural Values for Health Care Professionals Primary Author: HealthCare Chaplaincy This is "a guide that is meant to describe beliefs and practices generally found within a particular cultural or religious group." The purpose is to help healthcare providers meet the Joint Commission's requirement for addressing and maintaining patient rights for their cultural, religious, spiritual, and personal values, and religious and other spiritual practices to be accommodated. Sections include: Western Religions: Comparison of Jewish, Christian and Muslim Traditions; Judaism; Christianity; Christian Science; Eastern Orthodox; Jehovah's Witness; Mormonism; Protestantism; Roman Catholicism; Seventh-day Adventism; Islam (Muslim); Sunni vs. Shiite Eastern Religions: Buddhism; Hinduism; Sikhism Other Religions: Baha'i; Native American; Rastafarian Movement; Santeria; Voodoo; Wicca Major American Cultures: African-American/Black Culture; Hispanic-American Culture; Native American Culture African Cultures: Somali-American Culture; Caribbean Cultures; Cuban-American Culture; Haitian-American Culture; Jamaican-American Culture Middle East/South Asian Cultures: Arab-American Culture; East Indian-American Culture; Iranian-American Culture East Asian Cultures: Chinese-American Culture; Filipino-American Culture; Japanese-American Culture; Korean-American Culture; Vietnamese-American Culture Euro-Asian Cultures: Gypsy/Roma Culture; Russian-American Culture Date Last Modified 09/01/2009 Manual/guide, Report/Document/Book chapter

Religious Diversity: Practical Points for Health Care Providers Primary Author: John Ehman, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania & Penn Presbyterian Medical Center Printable tipsheet for health care providers to use when caring for patients from a number of different religious traditions. These are not comprehensive descriptions but rather practical items that may affect a patient, family, and care team during a hospitalization. Includes points for Buddhist, Catholic, Hindu, Jehovah's Witness, Jewish, Muslim, and Pentecostal patients. This is also available as a tri-fold brochure. Contact the author, Chaplain John Ehman at the Department of Pastoral Care in the University of Pennsylvania Health System: john.ehman@uphs.upenn.edu Date Last Modified 02/19/2009 On-the-job tool