News
04/07/09
Spring 2009 Launch for Faith Leader Toolkit
Launch is planned for ICEOL’s latest resource — The Unbroken Circle: A Toolkit for Congregations Around Illness, End of Life and Grief
03/01/09
Results from ICEOL - St. John Hospital and Medical Center Collaboration
Palliative Care Screening Tool results presented at CAPC
01/05/09
Now Available: Bibliography of Articles on Spirituality at the End of Life
Annotated bibliography of almost 50 articles on spirituality and health at the end of life.
12/29/08
ICEOL and St. John Health Partner on Palliative Care Resources
ICEOL and St. John Health, Detroit, Mich. partnered to provide free articles on palliative care to over 300 Detroit area churches.
12/19/08
Survey of Faith Leaders and End of Life Care Shows Potential for Growth
12/10/08
Spring 2009 Launch for Faith Leader Toolkit
Launch is planned for ICEOL’s latest resource — The Unbroken Circle: A Toolkit for Congregations Around Illness, End of Life and Grief
12/01/08
New Resource to Help Hospices Reach Out to African Americans
In collaboration with ICEOL, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization's Caring Connections has launched the African American Outreach Guide for hospices.
10/21/08
ICEOL's Westbrook Scholar Speaks on Youth, Illness and Religion
Aaron Klink gives presentation titled, "Terminal Illness, and Traumatic Events in Youth and Young Adults: Rebuilding Connections in Congregational Life" at Emory University.
10/11/08
ICEOL Director Gives Humphrey Oei Distinguished Lecture on World Palliative Care Day
Dr. Payne’s lecture, “Realizing Palliative Care as a Human Right—Building Communities of Hope and Caring at End of Life,” fit squarely with this year’s theme emphasizing hospice and palliative as a human right.
10/10/08
ICEOL's Westbrook Scholar Presents on Controversial Mandates of Recent Papacies on End of Life Care
Aaron Klink presented at the University of Texas at Austin’s conference, “1968: A Global Perspective.”
10/02/08
Richard Payne, ICEOL Director, Comments to LiveScience on the State of Palliative Care
08/21/08
New Tools to Help Hospices and Faith Communities Work Together
New Resources Available to Help Hospices and Faith Communities Work Together to Help Patients
Caring Connections in collaboration with ICEOL and Project Compassion has produced a faith community outreach guide and consumer information pamphlet.
07/26/08
ICEOL Director Calls for Return to the “Ethic of Good Samaritanism”
Richard Payne offers lecture titled “What is Compassionate Pain Care in the 21st Century” at the Chautauqua Institute’s Contemporary Issues Forum in Upstate New York
05/07/08
ICEOL Leads Public Discussion about End of Life Decisions
Richard Payne helps attendees at Hyde Park United Methodist Church in Tampa, FL understand how to get their wishes honored if they are seriously ill.
04/21/08
ICEOL Director Richard Payne Participates in Nationally Broadcast Conversation on Cancer Survivors and End-of-Life Care
"Take One Step: A Conversation about Cancer" aired nationally on PBS on April 16. The program, hosted by well known broadcast journalist Linda Ellerbee, involves a panel of doctors - who also are cancer survivors - discussing their personal stories as well as a variety of issues related to cancer and the end of life.
04/03/08
Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life Announces Partnership with Hospice of the Florida Suncoast
The Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life (ICEOL) announces a partnership with The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast and The Hospice Institute of the Florida Suncoast. A common mission, to educate people about the intersection of spirituality and health care at the end of life, forms the nucleus of the alliance.
04/02/08
Physician, Researcher and Author Joanne Lynn To Lecture at Duke
Joanne Lynn, M.D. - ethicist, physician, health services researcher, and author of Handbook for Mortals: Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness - will visit the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life on Thursday, April 3.
02/01/08
ICEOL Announces Proposal Request for 2008 Research Grants Program
The Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life supports a research grants program to promote innovative scholarship on the intersection of spirituality and care at the end of life.
01/15/08
End-of-Life Play Performed Professionally
A play that explores various end-of-life issues and serves as an educational tool for the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life will be performed professionally for the first time this winter.
11/13/07
ICEOL Conference Participant Writes about the Stress and Rewards of Caregiving
Joanne Kenen, attendee at ICEOL’s “Magnified and Sanctified: Jewish Ritual, Reality and Response at the End of Life” and Kaiser Family Foundation media fellow, reports on caregiving in the Jewish community for Hadassah magazine.
10/19/07
National Healthcare Decisions Day Set for April 16, 2008
ICEOL is one of 40 national organizations supporting the inaugural National Healthcare Decisions Day in April 2008.
10/08/07
ICEOL Director Speaks to Detroit Free Press about African Americans and Hospice
Richard Payne explains some African American's resistance to hospice care.
09/24/07
Resource Available on Providing Spiritual Support to People with Serious Illnesses
ICEOL has partnered with Caring Connections, a program of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, on a new brochure-Offering Spiritual Support for Family or Friends.
07/17/07
ICEOL Offering "APPEAL" Training on Caring for African Americans at the End of Life
On November 9 and 10, 2007 ICEOL will train health care providers and others on caring for African American patients and families at the end of life using the APPEAL curriculum (A Progressive Palliative Care Educational Curriculum for the Care of African Americans at Life's End).
06/18/07
ICEOL Director Receives Benevolent Advocate of Healthcare Award from Old North State Medical Society
Old North State Medical Society presents Richard Payne, M.D., ICEOL Director, with award for his dedication to improving end-of-life and palliative care.
06/01/07
Guide to Caring for Jewish Patients and Families at the End of Life Now Available
ICEOL guide introduces Jewish beliefs and practices around illness, death and loss and provides suggestions for responding to situations where the clinical, religious and cultural are entwined.
05/25/07
Distinguished Scholars William May, Emilie Townes, and Keith Meador Speak on Aging, Lament and Caring
Plenary presentations from the ICEOL – Presbyterian Church conference, “In Life and in Death We Belong to God,” are now available along with event photographs.
05/4/07
ICEOL Works to Improve Care for Jewish Patients at the End of Life
ICEOL bringing expert physicians, social workers, rabbis, chaplains and scholars together on May 31 to examine Jewish perspectives on end-of-life issues
04/20/07
ICEOL Becomes Exclusive Licensor of End-of Life Play “Vesta”
Hospice, churches and others now have opportunity to produce play to spark dialogue about end-of-life issues.
04/01/07
ICEOL Deputy Director Comments to the Orlando Sentinel on the Work of Hospice Chaplains
Jeanne Twohig speaks to the role and work of hospice chaplains (story no longer available online).
03/20/07
ICEOL Announces Proposal Request for 2007 Research Grants Program
Two awards will be made to promote scholarship on range of end-of-life care issues.
03/15/07
ICEOL Director Speaks to WUNC Radio’s The State of Things on Elements of an "Appropriate Death"
Richard Payne discusses the intersection of medicine and spirituality at the end of life.
03/12/07
ICEOL Director Comments to The Washington Post on Access to End of Life Care for Minorities
Richard Payne speaks to differences in end-of-life care for African Americans.
01/19/07
ICEOL, Presbyterian Church USA, to Host March Conference
“In Life and in Death We Belong to God: The Congregational Continuum of Care in the Presbyterian Church” will include workshops on theological, medical and practical dimensions of end-of-life care
10/10/06
Retreat Focuses on Improving Care for Gravely Ill Children
Parents helped develop the program, which goes beyond clinical issues
03/31/06
Right-to-Die Case Lawyer to Speak at Duke Divinity School
Guest Bill Colby authored “Long Goodbye: The Death of Nancy Cruzan”
09/13/05
ICEOL Hosts Researchers’ Symposium
Topics include intersection of end-of life care with spirituality, health services research, care giving, nursing homes, and clinical care issues.
09/09/05
Drug Cops and Doctors: Is the DEA Hampering the Treatment of Chronic Pain?
Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life leaders participate in Cato Institute symposium.
07/11/05
ICEOL Offers Summer Learning for Students
Projects tackle issues ranging from ethical issues related to pain and suffering to the role of clergy in end-of-life care.
04/22/05
It’s Time We Talk: Conversations about End-of Life Wishes
Community Conversations about End-of-Life Care Wishes. |
