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Cultural Competency - End-of-Life and Palliative Care

Providing culturally competent care at end-of-life is just as important as other life stages.  Use the following resources to enhance culturally appropriate end-of-life care.

General

Massachusetts Commission on End-of-Life Care
LInk to on-line and print resources.

Multicultural

When An Infant Dies: Cross Cultural Expressions of Grieving and Loss

End-of-Life Care Ethics: Recommendations for Culturally Competent

Cultural Issues for Palliative Care

Death and Dying in Multicultural Perspective: A Bibliography

Culturally Diverse Communities and End-of-Life Care (pdf)

Culture & End-of-Life Care
An online course for medical students and physicians.

African Americans

Palliative Care in African American Communities

Palliative and End-of-Life Care in the African American Community

Understanding and Supporting African Americans’ Perspectives of End-of-Life Care Planning and Decision Making

Asian

Vaisnava Hindu and Ayurvedic Approaches to Caring for the Dying

Acculturation of Attitudes Toward End-of-Life Care: A Cross-Cultural Survey of Japanese Americans and Japanese

Muslim

Dying and Deceased Muslim Patients: A Brief Guide