May 16, 2010 — May 23, 2010 at the Upaya Institute, NM
This revolutionary and practical training program for health care professionals gives essential tools for work with dying people and their families. Designed for physicians, nurses, social workers, hospice workers, and clergy, the training covers core issues related to dying, death, and grieving; ethical issues in end-of-life care and [...]
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from J Cancer Educ. 2006 Spring;21(1):30-4
Borod M.
Division of Palliative Care, Montreal General Hospital, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1A4. manuel.borod@muhc.mcgill.ca
Humor and laughter have been thought to be beneficial for thousands of years. Although much has been written on this subject, there is very little written about the actual use of humor in [...]
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from the journal, Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2009 Apr 24
Downey L, Engelberg RA, Standish LJ, Kozak L, Lafferty WE.
University of Washington.
Improving end-of-life care is a priority in the United States, but assigning priorities for standard care services requires evaluations using appropriate study design and appropriate outcome indicators. A recent randomized controlled trial with terminally [...]
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(Jul 10, 2009 — Jul 12, 2009 at the Upaya Institute and Zen Center, http://www.upaya.org/programs/event.php?id=280)
This retreat is for professional and family caregivers, those with life-threatening illness and those wishing to explore approaches to end-of-life care and issues related to dying and death. Participants will explore our views of pain, suffering, mortality, and freedom from suffering; perspectives on our encounter with [...]
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Posted in Death & Dying, Hospice on Sep 22nd, 2008
Qual Health Res. 1998 Nov;8(6):801-12; McGrath P.
Centre for Public Health Research, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
The hospice vision of providing democratic and humane care of the dying needs to be operationalized in the “real world” of health care bureaucracies. It is at this interface between idealists and the demands of mainstream health care that [...]
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by Anne Bruce
RN PhD
The perception of time shifts as patients enter hospice care. As a complex, socially determined construct, time plays a significant role in end-of-life care. Drawing on Buddhist and Western perspectives, conceptualizations of linear and cyclical time are discussed alongside notions of time as interplay of embodied experience and concept. Buddhist [...]
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Posted in Hospice on Sep 19th, 2008
A socially-engaged Zen Buddhist organization based in Melbourne, Australia with a small-scale community hospice service, dedicated to providing practical and spiritual outreach support to those facing life’s impermanence through a life-limiting illness.
http://zen.org.au/
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Posted in Hospice on Sep 19th, 2008
http://buddhisthospicecareproject.blogspot.com/
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Posted in Death & Dying, Hospice on Sep 18th, 2008
Maitri Compassionate Care
San Francisco
Zen Hospice Project
San Francisco
Amitabha Hospice Service
Auckland, New Zealand Affiliated withFoundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT)
Buddhist Lotus Hospice Care Foundation
Taiwan
Spiritual Care Program
West Cork, Ireland - Tibetan tradition
Upaya Zen Center & Institute (http://www.upaya.org/index.php), Santa Fe, NM
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Posted in Hospice on Sep 18th, 2008
The Medicare House Protection Act would delay implementation of a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) rule that will effectively cut Medicare payments for hospice care. Earlier this year, CMS announced plans to cut reimbursement rates for hospice by phasing out the budget neutrality adjustment factor that has applied to the hospice wage index [...]
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