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The Unbroken Circle: A Toolkit for Congregations Around Illness, End of Life, and Grief

Primary Author: James L Brooks, Duke University

The Unbroken Circle: A Toolkit for Congregations Around Illness, End of Life, and Grief is a new resource filled with practical tools and guidance to help congregations care for people facing illness, dying and bereavement. Developed by the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life and written by Rev. James L. Brooks, it provides clergy, lay leaders, parish nurses and chaplains with an inspiring vision, easy-to-use tools, specific tips, and hundreds of additional resources.

The Toolkit starts with a call to action and provides templates for congregations to plan a discussion of these issues. It also includes guidelines for support groups, information on how to offer spiritual support to families, and outlines for educational programs and liturgical services. The Toolkit is designed to be in sync with the self-organization of congregations, including organizing illness, death, and grief information specifically geared towards adult and child education, congregational care, and worship, facility, and clergy leadership.

Published in the summer of 2009, The Unbroken Circle has been embraced by congregationally-based clergy and nurses, chaplains in health care settings, educators in seminaries and clinical pastoral education programs, and students interested in spiritual dimensions of caring for those with advanced illness.

Date Last Modified 03/31/2009 Manual/guide, Book, On-the-job tool

Voicing the Spiritual: working with people with dementia

Primary Author: Jim Simpson, Royal Cornhill Hospital, Aberdeen

Report from a project that aimed to work with older people with dementia and their carers to develop, implement, and evaluate a spiritual care intervention designed to help patients and their carergivers remain connected with their communities and their spiritual lives. The project also sought to support the staff working with the patients.

Date Last Modified Report/Document/Book chapter

What is important to you? A booklet for people with learning disabilities

Primary Author: Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities

This booklet is written for people with learning disabilities. It is based on interview and focus-group based research on what is important to people with learning disabilities. It is intended to help patients think about what is important in their lives and communicate that to others.

Date Last Modified 04/01/2004 Manual/guide