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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

Compassionate Healthcare Systems

Primary Author: Christina M. Puchalski, George Washington University Medical Center

Recording of a talk given at Harvard Medical School's Spirituality and Healing in Medicine Conference in December 2008 (1 hour).

Date Last Modified 12/01/2008 Audio file (MP3, etc.), Lecture presentation

Dying, Dignity, and New Horizons in Palliative End-of-Life Care

Primary Author: Harvey Max Chochinov, University of Manitoba

Article from CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians (volume 56). Dr. Chochinov provides a brief overview of psychiatric challenges in end-of-life care, a discussion of spiritual or existential suffering toward the end of life, a model of dignity, and practical examples of diagnostic questions and therapeutic interventions to preserve dignity.

Date Last Modified 03/01/2006 Article

Dying into Grace

Primary Author: Artemis March,

This book provides guidance for for family and professional caregivers, as well as those who support and train them. The author expands the idea of what "dying well" can mean and treats caregivers and dying persons as partners in a dance toward wholeness and healing.

"Dying into Grace" intertwines the author's caregiving story with the story of her mother, and how they each were transformed by their psycho-spiritual journeys.

Date Last Modified 12/31/2007 Book

Empathy and the Practice of Medicine: Beyond Pills and the Scalpel

Primary Author: Howard M. Spiro, Yale University School of Medicine

From the publisher:

"The book-a collection of essays by physicians, philosophers, and a nurse-is divided into three parts: one deals with how empathy is weakened or lost during the course of medical education and suggests how to remedy this; another describes the historical and philosophical origins of empathy and provides arguments for and against it; and a third section offers compelling accounts of how physicians' empathy for their patients has affected their own lives and the lives of those in their care."

Date Last Modified 12/31/1993 Book