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Redesigning Hospitals, With Grieving Family Members in Mind
Awaiting devastating news of a loved one in a hospital is harrowing for family members. The Design & Dignity Programme is creating comfortable, homey spaces in the wards to soften the experience. In 2011, the Mater Hospital received a grant to physically enhance the spaces…
Author: Fast Company
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Care 'should not be linked to location'
By OLIVIA KELLY OLDER PEOPLE’S ALLIANCE: OLDER PEOPLE’S access to palliative and end-of-life care, dementia care or carer supports should not depend on geographic location, the Older and Bolder alliance has said. The group of organisations representing or working with older people is calling for the…
Author: Irish Times
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Ethnic Seniors Avoid End-of-Life Talk, but Want More Options
New America Media/Northwest Vietnamese News, News Feature, Julie Pham,Part 2 of 2. Read part 1 here. At the Vietnamese Senior Association (VSA) in Seattle, Marie Thu Le, 75, confessed that “When my time comes, I don’t want to be dependent on machines. I don’t want to…
Author: The Immigrant Magazine
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Atlantic’s Health Equity Champions
Our grantees have led the way to fairer and better health care around the world. Meet some of them. Photo: Magnum Foundation One of the best things about working at The Atlantic Philanthropies is that we have the privilege of supporting extraordinary leaders and organizations to advance opportunity,…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Minister for Older People Launches ‘Living with Dementia’ – A Psychological and Social Research Programme in Dementia Care
The Living with Dementia programme seeks to impact on policy development and contribute to the design of best practice models for those affected by dementia. Dublin, Thursday, April 29th, 2010 – ‘Living with Dementia’ is a psychological and social research programme in dementia care that…
Author: School of Social Work and Social Policy
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IOM's "Retooling For An Aging America" Seen As Turning Point In Efforts To Improve Healthcare For Older Adults
Original Source The recent release of “Retooling for an Aging America” — the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report warning that the nation’s healthcare workforce is too small and unprepared for care for the aging population and calling for sweeping changes to avert this looming healthcare…
Author: Medical News Today
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House Calls Are Making a Comeback
A relic from the medical past — the house call — is returning to favor as part of some hospitals’ palliative care programs, which are sending teams of physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains and other workers to patients’ homes after they are discharged. The goal…
Author: The New York Times
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Sale of hospital to fund move for hospice
By Tommy Barker. THE planned sale of a 140-year-old hospital will help fund the move to a new €55 million hospice facility, west of Cork city. Marymount/St Patrick’s Hospital is vacating its historic city home at Wellington Road, St Luke’s Cross, ending a continuous caring…
Author: Irish Examiner
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Massive Grants to Transform Nursing Education in South Africa
New Programme Will Improve Nursing Education, Increase Ranks of University Educated Nurses and Benefit All South Africans Cape Town, 11 December 2008 – Nursing education in South Africa will be boosted by an unprecedented injection of R70-million over four years from The Atlantic Philanthropies, an…
Author: Inyathelo The South African Institute for Advancement
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A sneak peek at EUR55m Cork hospital
It’s not due to open until July next year, but the bold new St. Patrick’s Hospital and Marymount Hospice site in Curraheen is already taking shape. DAVID FORSYTHE had a guided tour of the new EUR55million complex IF you’ve driven along the Ballincollig Bypass lately,…
Author: Evening Echo