Kenneth J. Doka, Ph.D. “If she were eight, everyone would understand my grief. Why can’t they understand it now? Even though she was forty-eight years old, she was still my daughter” Other parents who have experienced the death of an adult child… Read More ›
Sarah Myers. Dignity therapy is a form of psychotherapy designed for terminally ill patients and their families. The focus is to document the most meaningful moments of a dying person’s life. In dignity therapy, the patients are asked a series… Read More ›
By Cheryl Barnes-Neff, PhD, MDiv, RN Twenty years ago, I was hired as the Quality Manager for a local hospice. I believed in the concept after years of working as a nurse in hospitals, but I was new to hospice… Read More ›
by Lizzy Miles. As part of the admission process for a hospice patient, the admission team will ask the patient about their spiritual orientation and/or religion. Because there is so much information and education to convey at the admission, the… Read More ›
Samuel Blair. I’ve been reading the excellent book Simply Sane by Dr. Gerald May, primarily for my personal benefit but secondarily for professional benefit. It wasn’t recommended to me by anyone, and I honestly can’t remember how I stumbled upon it, but… Read More ›
John Hardwig. When I am dying, I am quite sure that the central issues for me will not be whether I am put on a ventilator, whether CPR is attempted when my heart stops, or whether I receive artificial feeding…. Read More ›
Saul Ebema, DMin. For lots of people, “the thought of dying provokes so much fear and apprehension as does the thought of death itself. It is in this context of fear and apprehension, that the process of dying becomes a… Read More ›
Saul Ebema. There was a time when I visited a hospice patient. The family seemed concerned that he had withdrawn himself from a lot of family activities. Joe used to be very outgoing but as his illness progressed, he begun… Read More ›
Melissa J. Hart. How does spiritual care help people who are facing life-limiting illness to find courage and equanimity? How does it help people find balance, comfort, and strength? The added dimension that spiritual care brings to hospice and palliative medicine has enormous capacity to… Read More ›
Saul Ebema, D.Min. Hospice Chaplain #2 was a minister who exhibited anxiety and job dissatisfaction on a regular basis. He was often overwhelmed with his complex, patient-care assignments and expressed much sadness about his patients’ social and emotional problems. He… Read More ›
