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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