Tag Archives: Death and Dying

Enhancing Communication About Goals of Care Through Video Interventions

How videos can improve communication at the end of life

In a 2023 study conducted jointly by Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, researchers uncovered a promising strategy to facilitate crucial goals of care discussions among elderly hospital patients. The study revealed that showing patients videos depicting real-life scenarios … Continue reading

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Dignified Hospice Design: Dans Arhitekti’s Hospice Facility in Ljubljana

The Power of Thoughtful, Human-Centered Design in Hospice Care Facilities

Hospice care facilities present a unique challenge for architects and designers. Although they are technically medical buildings requiring functional designs to accommodate health care staff and equipment, hospices are also intimate, emotional spaces where residents spend the last moments of … Continue reading

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Science Has Yet to Explain Near-Death Experiences

Near-death experiences have delivered plenty of answers, but even more questions

At one point or another, most of us have seen a raccoon or a squirrel that tragically attempted to cross the highway at the wrong moment. Those little, furry beings lying on the side of the road are heartbreaking to … Continue reading

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Reborn-Art Festival Breathes Life Into A Struggling Region

The Reborn-Art Festival hopes to revitalize an area affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake

On March 11, 2011, the magnitude 9 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami devastated the Tohoku region of in the northeast of Japan. In 2017, musician and producer Takeshi Kobayashi founded the Reborn-Art Festival with the aim of rebuilding the … Continue reading

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“The Goodbye Book” by Todd Parr

A children's picture book that addresses loss and grief

“The Goodbye Book,” written by bestselling author Todd Parr, is a children’s picture book that matter-of-factly and simply addresses what it means to lose someone you love. The book features a goldfish who has lost his companion, his green fish … Continue reading

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“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”

- Abraham Lincoln
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