Facilitating spiritual and cultural rituals as desired by patients and families is an important component of holistic palliative care. The National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care makes this clear…
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Reflective writing is an important part of my spiritual practice and my wellbeing as a healthcare professional. I’m grateful for recent collaborations with The Human Touch, a literary journal for…
I first started making “house calls” to my home hospice patients in 1989. It was a privilege to be able to come into the house to see the patient in…
Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. This stanza from Mary Oliver’s poem “Sometimes” has made its way into every essay I have written about…
Understanding what you mean by “provide comfort care” can be very challenging. We use the term as shorthand within medicine, but it is confusing to the “real” world of our…
Part 3 of the continuing series “Pathways to Palliative Care” highlighting Palliative Care professionals and their unique journey into practice. What were their challenges, obstacles and lessons learned along the…
On January 26, 2017 the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus’ Graduate Council approved the expansion of the interprofessional Master of Science in Palliative Care (MSPC) to include an Allied…
The nation’s healthcare providers are ill-prepared for the oncoming “silver tsunami” – 75 million baby boomers entering their senior years needing individualized care and help making medical decisions, says CU professor…