For Patients & Families
Options at the End of Life
Hospice
- To Hope: Hospice Care in Line with Jewish Tradition
- When Choosing Hospice means Choosing Life by Rabbi Tsurah August
- Curing vs. Healing
- Life Choice Hospice: Understanding hospice from a Jewish point of view (pdf)
- Hospice Care and Halacha: End of Life Treatment in the Jewish Tradition
“Kudos to Rabbi Charles Rudansky for his Opinion essay, “To Hope: Hospice Care in Line with Jewish Tradition” (Jan. 17)” – Read this reader’s response from The Jewish Week,2/21/2014 edition.
Palliative Care
- MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care
- CLAL’s Embracing Life and Facing Death: A Jewish Guide to Palliative Care
- Center to Advance Palliative Care
Palliative Care Patient Information Act (New York State)
Provider Directories
- National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, Find a Provider site
- Jewish Healing and Hospice Alliance Resource Directory (PDF)
Facilitating Conversations
- Needed: Conversations on Choosing Life
- The Conversation Project
- Conversations On The Final Chapter: The Holiness Of Caregiving
- Prepare for a Good End of Life
- The Town Where Everyone Talks About Death, an NPR’s Planet Money Podcast
Conversations before the Crisis, End-of-Life Caregiving, and Communicating End-of-Life Wishes are available at the Caring Connections Brochures
Planning Ahead
- Beforef Hayamin: In the Winter of Life: A Values-Based Jewish Guide for Decision-Making at the End of Life
- Jewish Lights Publishing searchable listing of their publications
- Too Soon to Say Goodbye, by Art Buchwald.
- Congregation Rodeph Sholom’s “End of Life Preparation and Consolation: A Jewish Guide to the End of Life
- “Jewish Law (Halachah) and Medical Decision-Making,” AJAS Journal on Jewish Aging
- Prolonging Life in the Shadow of Death: Where Halacha Guidelines and Medical Expertise Meet
- “Halachic Pathway” and Chayim Aruchim (Center for Culturally Sensitive End of Life Advocacy and Counseling)
Advance Care/Planning Documents
- New York State Health Care Proxy Law
- Medical Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment
- Jewish Medical Directives for Health Care, approved by the Rabbinical Assembly of the Conservative Movement
- Chayim Aruchim Medical Directives
- The Halachic Medical Directive for use in New York State
Family Caregiving
- NHPCO/National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization – Caring Connections
- Caring Connections – Caring for Someone
- Compassion and Support at the End of Life
- United Hospital Fund – Family Caregiving
- Next Step in Care – For Family Caregivers
- Always on Call: When Illness Turns Families into Caregivers, edited by Carol Levine
- Caring for a Child with Serious Illness
- Learning to Speak Alzheimer’s: A Groundbreaking Approach for Everyone Dealing with the Disease, 2003 by Joanne Koenig Coste
- Finding Balance
- Respite – Taking a Break
- HelpGuide.org
- On March 5, 2014 The Washington Post published “Caregiving: A Special Report,” with articles, videos and resources about the special force of silent heroes caring for America’s aging population. A must read for anyone who is/will/has cared for an older loved one.
- Grieving a Loss