Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Providing Spiritual Support to the Dying

This Sacramento Bee article discusses an end-of-life seminar attended by more than 50 local faith leaders.

Hospice College of America (a distance-learning subsidiary of HFA) offers an online course, Engaging Faith Communities in End-of-Life Care. The course is for clergy and faith leaders designed to enhance understanding of issues related to end of life care, and to provide techniques to help clergy and lay leaders to assist members of their congregations who are facing an end-of-life medical crisis. This course was developed by Hospice Foundation of America in cooperation with the Florida Department of Elder Affairs and The Center on Aging at Florida International University.