Last Gift: Ethical Considerations for HIV Cure Research at the End of Life - Exploring Ethics
UC San Diego’s Last Gift study aims to identify where HIV hides in the body of individuals who are terminally ill from a disease other than...
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Experts and practitioners address critical end of life concerns for patients and their families.
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13 episodesLearning from Dying: Buddhist Understandings of Consciousness and Death - A Conversation with Robert Thurman
Renowned Tibetan Buddhist scholar and Columbia University Professor Robert A.F. Thurman is joined in conversation by his colleague Isa Gucci...
Late-life Depression and Bereavement - Research on Aging
Depression in older adults is under-recognized and under-treated. Sidney Zisook, MD shares the warning signs - with some surprising informat...
Nature's Impact on the Seriously Ill Patient
Rev. Denah Joseph, Chaplain and Associate Director UCSF Palliative Care Service, reflects on the positive effects of connecting the seriousl...
Power to the People: How Advance Care Planning Can Help You Prepare for Future Medical Decisions and Get the Care that is Right for You
It is important that our wishes about medical care, should we become incapable of making our own decisions, be known. Find out what you need...
What is My Prognosis? Using Information on Life Expectancy to Make Important Decisions
Dr. Alex Smith is a clinician-researcher at the University of California San Francisco who is at the forefront of efforts to integrate geria...
Hospice Care
Hospice Care brings compassionate care into the lives of terminally ill patients, and grief support services to their families. Series: "Com...
It Takes a Village: Caring for the Caregiver
Nearly 44 million adults in the US are providing care for family, partners or friends with disabilities or other needs. Dr. Michael Rabow ex...
Are There Atheists in Foxholes? Spiritual Issues in Serious and Terminal Illness
Rev. Denah Joseph, Chaplain and Associate Director UCSF Palliative Care Service, reflects on the domains of religion, spirituality, and cult...
Giving Your Loved Ones the Gift of Knowing What You Want: Advance Care Planning
Dr. Rebecca Sudore, Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSF, explains that the goal of advanced care planning is to make sure that the medic...
Palliative Care: Who is it For What Does it Do Why Should I Want it and When?
Serious illness and end of life care has changed. People live longer and death often comes after years of serious, chronic illness. Dr. Stev...
Ethics of Futile Life-Sustaining Treatment
James Hynds, PhD, discusses the ethics of futile life-sustaining treatments in pediatrics. Series: "UCLA Pediatric Grand Rounds" [Health and...
Decisions at the End of Life: The Illusion of Control and the Sense of Responsibility with Stewart J. Youngner
More than 2 million people die every year in the United States, almost always in the presence of life-sustaining medical technology. Sometim...