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Compassionate care Resources
ClosurePrimary 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.
Date Last Modified 04/04/2011
Website, Article, Continuing Education course, Course curriculum, Manual/guide
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Compassionate Healthcare SystemsPrimary 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
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Dying, Dignity, and New Horizons in Palliative End-of-Life CarePrimary 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
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Dying into GracePrimary 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.
Date Last Modified 12/31/2007
Book
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Empathy and the Practice of Medicine: Beyond Pills and the ScalpelPrimary Author: Howard M. Spiro, Yale University School of Medicine
From the publisher:
Date Last Modified 12/31/1993
Book
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