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Nothing Left Unsaid: Creating a Healing Legacy with Final Words and Letters

Primary Author: Mary Polce-Lynch, Randolph-Macon College

Rituals exist to settle estates and bequeath material possessions after people die, but there isn't a ritual for making sure that nothing is left unsaid to loved ones. Messages of love, forgiveness, life lessons, hopes, and personal legacy can prevent regret during the grieving process and bring meaning to life in the present.

This resource assists people in writing two types of personal legacies: 1) Final Words written to loved ones before a person's death, and; 2) Legacy Letters written to loved ones approaching the end of their life due to age, illness, or going into harm's way. Both rituals create a different kind of inheritance to ensure that nothing is left unsaid.

Date Last Modified 10/10/2009 Exercise, Manual/guide

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

Spiritual Care to Elderly and Dying Loved Ones

Primary Author: Kevin Quiles,

This book seeks to the provide caretakers with the necessary tools to develop a warm approach toward the experiences of a loved one, friend, or patient. It covers topics such as cancer, dementia, deep loneliness, and loss of purpose.

Date Last Modified 09/01/2009 Book

Checklist: Improving the Quality of Spiritual Care as a Dimension of Palliative Care

Primary Author: GWish

Checklist based on the recommendations from the report of the Consensus Conference on Improving the Quality of Spiritual Care as a Dimension of Palliative Care. The checklist helps you compare your institution's spiritual care practices with the recommendations, and determine areas for improvement.

Date Last Modified 07/08/2009 Exercise, Other

Complementary Spiritual Practices in Professional Chaplaincy

Primary Author: Association of Professional Chaplains (APC)

A resource for chaplains seeking to learn more about complementary pastoral resources, practices, and interventions. This pdf document contains a list of practices across the mind/body/spirit continuum that a chaplain could do in his or her ministry. For each practice the purported benefits are listed along with references to research about the practice.

This is a work in progress and suggestions are requested.

Date Last Modified 06/01/2009 Manual/guide, On-the-job tool