We would like to bring to your attention an American project promoting palliative care. The joint venture between the Lien Foundation, IASP, Mayday Foundation, UICC and the Institute for Palliative Medicine in San Diego has released one of fifty short movies on ‘life before death’ every week since May 2011. For further information click on the link below:
http://www.lifebeforedeath.com/movie/short-films.shtml
We would like to hear your opinions about the movies – please leave comments below.
Posted in End of life care, Resource
Tagged Experiences, palliative care, United States
The Hospice Foundation of America has its own blog which has a great section on culture. The culture posts mostly deal with disparities in hospice use by ethnic group.
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Tagged cultural competency, End of life care, palliative care, research, resource, United States
Diversity and End-of-Life Care - Hospice Foundation of America
The Hospice Foundation of America broadcast the 2009 National Bereavement Teleconference “Diversity and End of Life Care” on April 29th 2009. For more information about how to access resources produced for the conference, click here.
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Tagged cultural competency, End of life care, palliative care, resource, United States
