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 The family seemed concerned that he had withdrawn himself from a lot of family activities.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 ›
Saul Ebema, DMin. Depression is a normal reaction to death and dying. It could be triggered by different factors as the terminally ill patient begins to contemplate death. It could be triggered by spiritual pain. I remember visiting a hospice… Read More ›
Saul Ebema, M.Div., DMin. One of my friends used to have dizzy spells that often came and went. He decided to go to the doctor to have some tests done on him in order find out what was wrong with… Read More ›
Kenneth J. Doka, M.Div., Ph.D. As children encounter illness, loss and grief — whether their own or someone close to them — they seek to understand those events and to make sense of their experiences. This inevitably is a spiritual… Read More ›
