“Don't let “End of Life Care” become “End of Road Care” – Integrate Palliative Education!
End of life care. What does it mean? Does it refer to care in the last days, the last weeks, or the last years? What type of care is provided by an end of life care program? Is it holistic? Patient and family centered? What are the program goals, criteria, expectations? In the past decade […]
Joy Berger – MusicoftheSoul.com
I met Joy at the ADEC conference in Miami in the late spring. She is bright, energetic, brainy, AND to top that all off, she sings – and she loves to sing. Her book, ‘Music of the Soul” links with her website of the same name. Check out the site if you want to understand […]
New dimensions in palliative care: a palliative approach to …. final illness in older people
Article by Linda J Kristjanson, Christine Toye and Sky Dawson published in 2003, cites the importance of a palliative approach when caring for those with neurodegenerative diseases as well as elderly people dying from diseases other than cancer. “A palliative care approach has much to offer people in the advanced stages of neurodegenerative diseases, as […]
Hospice Africa, Hospice Africa Uganda
We are thrilled to have students in our current online course, “Walking and Talking with Kids about Death and Dying” from Nepal, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. One of the participants who wanted to sign up, but is unable to at this point, asked for information on Hospice Africa, and asked that I link her with […]
