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For Patients & Families
Facilitating Conversations
- Rabbi Charles Rudansky in Divine Prescription
- The Epic Rap Video that Starts the End of Life Conversation
- Hospice: What is it and when is it for you?
- Oliver Sacks: My Periodic Table
- Choosing How We Die- New Medicare Proposal
- How to Talk With Your Friends When They Get Sick (and Keep Your Sense of Humor)
- The Town Where Everyone Talks About Death, an NPR’s Planet Money Podcast
- Give Me Your Hand: Traditional and Practical Guidance on Visiting the Sick
- Making Sacred Choices at the End of Life and Making Decisions at the End of Life
- Glossary
- Jewish Lights Publishing searchable listing of their publications
- The New Old Age The New York Times Blog: Exploring the intergenerational efforts to care for our aging parents
- Jewish Sacred Aging: A Jewish community forum dedicated to discussing issues for Boomers and their parents
- Talking about Dying, by Rabbi David Tetsch
- Facing the End Like a Mensch by Rabbi Janet Marder
- “Bridging with the Sacred: Reflections of an MD Chaplain”
- Jewish Ritual, Reality and Response at the End of Life
- Coalition to Transform Advanced Care
- Initiating Palliative Care Conversations: Lessons from Jewish Bioethics
- Caring for a Child with Serious Illness
- NHPCO/National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization – Caring Connections
- The Halachic Medical Directive for use in New York State
- Jewish Medical Directives for Health Care
- Too Soon to Say Goodbye, by Art Buchwald.
- Beforef Hayamin: In the Winter of Life: A Values-Based Jewish Guide for Decision-Making at the End of Life
- Life Choice Hospice: Understanding hospice from a Jewish point of view (pdf)
- CLAL’s Embracing Life and Facing Death: A Jewish Guide to Palliative Care
- V’Zeh Piryah: And this is its fruit…
- My Own Life: Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer
- How Doctors Die: Showing Others the Way
- To Hope: Hospice Care in Line with Jewish Tradition
- Becoming a Family Caregiver: A Search for Identity
- Caring for Holocaust Survivors at End of Life
- Vayechi ‘He Lived’ – Finding Life and Blessing at the End of Life
- Let the Light Shine – Isolation and the Plague of Darkness
- Prepare for a Good End of Life
- Conversations On The Final Chapter: The Holiness Of Caregiving
- The Conversation Project
- Needed: Conversations on Choosing Life
Family Caregiving
- Rabbi Charles Rudansky in Divine Prescription
- A Hospice Social Worker on Grief and Empathy
- Oliver Sacks: Sabbath
- The Epic Rap Video that Starts the End of Life Conversation
- Hospice: What is it and when is it for you?
- Choosing How We Die- New Medicare Proposal
- Four Things That Matter Most: Study Guide
- How to Talk With Your Friends When They Get Sick (and Keep Your Sense of Humor)
- Sheryl Sandberg’s reflections at the end of sheloshim
- The Town Where Everyone Talks About Death, an NPR’s Planet Money Podcast
- Give Me Your Hand: Traditional and Practical Guidance on Visiting the Sick
- Making Sacred Choices at the End of Life and Making Decisions at the End of Life
- Glossary
- Jewish Lights Publishing searchable listing of their publications
- The New Old Age The New York Times Blog: Exploring the intergenerational efforts to care for our aging parents
- Jewish Sacred Aging: A Jewish community forum dedicated to discussing issues for Boomers and their parents
- Talking about Dying, by Rabbi David Tetsch
- A Collection of Jewish Quotes on Visiting the Sick, Sh’ma
- Mishkan R’fuah: Where Healing Resides
- Facing the End Like a Mensch by Rabbi Janet Marder
- “Increasing Access to Palliative Care for the Orthodox Jewish Community”
- “Jewish Law (Halachah) and Medical Decision Making: Helping Rabbis and Doctors “LEARN” to Communicate Effectively”
- Jewish Ritual, Reality and Response at the End of Life
- Coalition to Transform Advanced Care
- Center to Advance Palliative Care
- “Halachic Pathway” and Chayim Aruchim (Center for Culturally Sensitive End of Life Advocacy and Counseling)
- MJHS Guidebook: Caring for Holocaust Survivors with Sensitivity at the End of Life
- Initiating Palliative Care Conversations: Lessons from Jewish Bioethics
- Grieving a Loss
- Caregiving: A Special Report
- HelpGuide.org
- Respite – Taking a Break
- Finding Balance
- Learning to Speak Alzheimer’s: A Groundbreaking Approach for Everyone Dealing with the Disease
- Caring for a Child with Serious Illness
- Always on Call: When Illness Turns Families into Caregivers
- Next Step in Care – For Family Caregivers
- Family Caregiving
- NHPCO/National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization – Caring Connections
- The Halachic Medical Directive for use in New York State
- Jewish Medical Directives for Health Care
- Medical Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment
- New York State Health Care Proxy Law
- “Halachic Pathway” and Chayim Aruchim (Center for Culturally Sensitive End of Life Advocacy and Counseling)
- Prolonging Life in the Shadow of Death: Where Halacha Guidelines and Medical Expertise Meet
- Congregation Rodeph Sholom’s “End of Life Preparation and Consolation: A Jewish Guide to the End of Life
- Too Soon to Say Goodbye, by Art Buchwald.
- Beforef Hayamin: In the Winter of Life: A Values-Based Jewish Guide for Decision-Making at the End of Life
- Life Choice Hospice: Understanding hospice from a Jewish point of view (pdf)
- CLAL’s Embracing Life and Facing Death: A Jewish Guide to Palliative Care
- V’Zeh Piryah: And this is its fruit…
- How Doctors Die: Showing Others the Way
- To Hope: Hospice Care in Line with Jewish Tradition
- Becoming a Family Caregiver: A Search for Identity
- Walking My Mother To The Gate
- Caring for Holocaust Survivors at End of Life
- Vayechi ‘He Lived’ – Finding Life and Blessing at the End of Life
- The Conversation Project
Options at the End of Life
- Oliver Sacks: My Periodic Table
- “End-of-life: Jewish perspectives” by Rabbi Elliot Dorff
- Caregiving: A Special Report
- Always on Call: When Illness Turns Families into Caregivers
- The Halachic Medical Directive for use in New York State
- Chayim Aruchim Medical Directives
- Medical Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment
- My Own Life: Oliver Sacks on Learning He Has Terminal Cancer
- Vayechi ‘He Lived’ – Finding Life and Blessing at the End of Life
Hospice
- Rabbi Charles Rudansky in Divine Prescription
- A Hospice Social Worker on Grief and Empathy
- The Epic Rap Video that Starts the End of Life Conversation
- Hospice: What is it and when is it for you?
- What is hospice care? video
- The Town Where Everyone Talks About Death, an NPR’s Planet Money Podcast
- When Choosing Hospice means Choosing Life by Rabbi Tsurah August
- Making Sacred Choices at the End of Life and Making Decisions at the End of Life
- Glossary
- Jewish Lights Publishing searchable listing of their publications
- The New Old Age The New York Times Blog: Exploring the intergenerational efforts to care for our aging parents
- Jewish Sacred Aging: A Jewish community forum dedicated to discussing issues for Boomers and their parents
- Talking about Dying, by Rabbi David Tetsch
- A Collection of Jewish Quotes on Visiting the Sick, Sh’ma
- Mishkan R’fuah: Where Healing Resides
- Facing the End Like a Mensch by Rabbi Janet Marder
- “Jewish Law (Halachah) and Medical Decision-Making,” AJAS Journal on Jewish Aging
- “Chaplains & Physicians,” by Dr. Jason Mann
- “Bridging with the Sacred: Reflections of an MD Chaplain,” by Bruce Feldstein
- “Bridging with the Sacred: Reflections of an MD Chaplain”
- “Jewish Law (Halachah) and Medical Decision Making: Helping Rabbis and Doctors “LEARN” to Communicate Effectively”
- Jewish Ritual, Reality and Response at the End of Life
- Coalition to Transform Advanced Care
- “Halachic Pathway” and Chayim Aruchim (Center for Culturally Sensitive End of Life Advocacy and Counseling)
- MJHS Guidebook: Caring for Holocaust Survivors with Sensitivity at the End of Life
- Next Step in Care – For Family Caregivers
- NHPCO/National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization – Caring Connections
- Jewish Medical Directives for Health Care
- New York State Health Care Proxy Law
- “Halachic Pathway” and Chayim Aruchim (Center for Culturally Sensitive End of Life Advocacy and Counseling)
- Prolonging Life in the Shadow of Death: Where Halacha Guidelines and Medical Expertise Meet
- Jewish Law (Halachah) and Medical Decision Making,” AJAS Journal on Jewish Aging
- Too Soon to Say Goodbye, by Art Buchwald.
- That Your Values Live On- Ethical Wills and How to Prepare Them
- Beforef Hayamin: In the Winter of Life: A Values-Based Jewish Guide for Decision-Making at the End of Life
- Life Choice Hospice: Understanding hospice from a Jewish point of view (pdf)
- Hospice Care and Halacha: End of Life Treatment in the Jewish Tradition
- V’Zeh Piryah: And this is its fruit…
- How Doctors Die: Showing Others the Way
- To Hope: Hospice Care in Line with Jewish Tradition
- Becoming a Family Caregiver: A Search for Identity
- Walking My Mother To The Gate
- Caring for Holocaust Survivors at End of Life
- Lessening the “Illness Burden”
- MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care
- Prepare for a Good End of Life
Palliative Care
- A Hospice Social Worker on Grief and Empathy
- The Epic Rap Video that Starts the End of Life Conversation
- The Town Where Everyone Talks About Death, an NPR’s Planet Money Podcast
- When Choosing Hospice means Choosing Life by Rabbi Tsurah August
- Making Sacred Choices at the End of Life and Making Decisions at the End of Life
- Glossary
- Jewish Lights Publishing searchable listing of their publications
- The New Old Age The New York Times Blog: Exploring the intergenerational efforts to care for our aging parents
- Jewish Sacred Aging: A Jewish community forum dedicated to discussing issues for Boomers and their parents
- Talking about Dying, by Rabbi David Tetsch
- A Collection of Jewish Quotes on Visiting the Sick, Sh’ma
- Mishkan R’fuah: Where Healing Resides
- “Reflections on Palliative Care from the Jewish and Islamic Tradition“ by Rabbi Michael Schultz, Kassim Baddarni and Dr. Gil Bar-Sela
- “Bridging with the Sacred: Reflections of an MD Chaplain”
- “Increasing Access to Palliative Care for the Orthodox Jewish Community”
- “Jewish Law (Halachah) and Medical Decision Making: Helping Rabbis and Doctors “LEARN” to Communicate Effectively”
- Jewish Ritual, Reality and Response at the End of Life
- Coalition to Transform Advanced Care
- Center to Advance Palliative Care
- “Halachic Pathway” and Chayim Aruchim (Center for Culturally Sensitive End of Life Advocacy and Counseling)
- MJHS Guidebook: Caring for Holocaust Survivors with Sensitivity at the End of Life
- MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care
- Initiating Palliative Care Conversations: Lessons from Jewish Bioethics
- Caring for a Child with Serious Illness
- Next Step in Care – For Family Caregivers
- NHPCO/National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization – Caring Connections
- Jewish Medical Directives for Health Care
- New York State Health Care Proxy Law
- “Halachic Pathway” and Chayim Aruchim (Center for Culturally Sensitive End of Life Advocacy and Counseling)
- Prolonging Life in the Shadow of Death: Where Halacha Guidelines and Medical Expertise Meet
- Jewish Law (Halachah) and Medical Decision Making,” AJAS Journal on Jewish Aging
- Beforef Hayamin: In the Winter of Life: A Values-Based Jewish Guide for Decision-Making at the End of Life
- Curing vs. Healing
- CLAL’s Embracing Life and Facing Death: A Jewish Guide to Palliative Care
- V’Zeh Piryah: And this is its fruit…
- How Doctors Die: Showing Others the Way
- To Hope: Hospice Care in Line with Jewish Tradition
- Becoming a Family Caregiver: A Search for Identity
- Caring for Holocaust Survivors at End of Life
- Lessening the “Illness Burden”
- MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care
- Prepare for a Good End of Life
Provider Directories
Planning Ahead
- The New Old Age The New York Times Blog: Exploring the intergenerational efforts to care for our aging parents
- Talking about Dying, by Rabbi David Tetsch
- Family Caregiving
- NHPCO/National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization – Caring Connections
- Beforef Hayamin: In the Winter of Life: A Values-Based Jewish Guide for Decision-Making at the End of Life
- To Hope: Hospice Care in Line with Jewish Tradition
- Walking My Mother To The Gate
Advance Care/Planning Documents
- The Epic Rap Video that Starts the End of Life Conversation
- Hospice: What is it and when is it for you?
- Choosing How We Die- New Medicare Proposal
- Four Things That Matter Most: Study Guide
- What is hospice care? video
- The Town Where Everyone Talks About Death, an NPR’s Planet Money Podcast
- Glossary
- Jewish Sacred Aging: A Jewish community forum dedicated to discussing issues for Boomers and their parents
- “Jewish Law (Halachah) and Medical Decision Making: Helping Rabbis and Doctors “LEARN” to Communicate Effectively”
- Coalition to Transform Advanced Care
- Next Step in Care – For Family Caregivers
- The Halachic Medical Directive for use in New York State
- Chayim Aruchim Medical Directives
- Jewish Medical Directives for Health Care
- Medical Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment
- New York State Health Care Proxy Law
- Congregation Rodeph Sholom’s “End of Life Preparation and Consolation: A Jewish Guide to the End of Life
- Too Soon to Say Goodbye, by Art Buchwald.
- That Your Values Live On- Ethical Wills and How to Prepare Them
- How Doctors Die: Showing Others the Way
- Becoming a Family Caregiver: A Search for Identity
- Let the Light Shine – Isolation and the Plague of Darkness
- Prepare for a Good End of Life
Other Useful Resources
- UJA-Federation of New York Network Agencies Directory
- Four Things That Matter Most: Study Guide
- Medicine’s Growing Spirituality by Laura Landro
- “Bridging with the Sacred: Reflections of an MD Chaplain”
- “Increasing Access to Palliative Care for the Orthodox Jewish Community”
- “Jewish Law (Halachah) and Medical Decision Making: Helping Rabbis and Doctors “LEARN” to Communicate Effectively”
- Jewish Ritual, Reality and Response at the End of Life
- Coalition to Transform Advanced Care
- Center to Advance Palliative Care
- “Halachic Pathway” and Chayim Aruchim (Center for Culturally Sensitive End of Life Advocacy and Counseling)
- MJHS Guidebook: Caring for Holocaust Survivors with Sensitivity at the End of Life
- MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care
- Initiating Palliative Care Conversations: Lessons from Jewish Bioethics
- Grieving a Loss
- Caregiving: A Special Report
- HelpGuide.org
- Respite – Taking a Break
- Finding Balance
- Learning to Speak Alzheimer’s: A Groundbreaking Approach for Everyone Dealing with the Disease
- Caring for a Child with Serious Illness
- Always on Call: When Illness Turns Families into Caregivers
- Next Step in Care – For Family Caregivers
- Family Caregiving
- NHPCO/National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization – Caring Connections
- The Halachic Medical Directive for use in New York State
- Chayim Aruchim Medical Directives
- Jewish Medical Directives for Health Care
- Medical Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment
- New York State Health Care Proxy Law
- The Conversation Project