Caring Community - Latino Resources

Go Wish Cards, Elizabeth S. Menkin, MD

Fri, 13 May 2011 12:52:13 -0700

Go Wish cards order information, Frequently Asked Questions and examples of clinical uses of these Values Sorting Cards helpful when considering end of life choices are provided at this site. The Go Wish cards were created by Elizabeth Menkin, MD and the CODA Alliance to simplify advance care planning choices and assist with setting goals of care. Now available in Spanish.

Healthfinder espanol -- su guía a la información confiable de la salud

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:04:43 -0800

healthfinder® is an award-winning Federal Web site for consumers, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services together with other Federal agencies. Since 1997, healthfinder® has been recognized as a key resource for finding the best government and nonprofit health and human services information on the Internet. healthfinder® links to carefully selected information and Web sites from over 1,500 health-related organizations.

Journey Project

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:50:35 -0800

Quality of life is the gold standard in palliative care. Francis Mueller, MD, Calistoga, California

Overview

Through the Journey Project, the Community Network builds upon nearly two decades of work advocating for quality, affordable neighborhood-based long-term care. Educational programming, strategic planning services, and publications offered draw upon a variety of perspectives representing the personal and professional experiences of those involved.

The basic premise of Journey Project is that wellness through the ending of life requires:

good planning

Memorial Hospice

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:52:49 -0800

Rooted in community, Memorial Hospice has been providing quality, compassionate hospice care and grief services to individuals and families facing life-threatening illness or the death of a loved one since 1997. Memorial Hospice and our sister program, Hospice of Petaluma, are a service of the St. Joseph Health System, a Ministry of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange.

Patients and families receive interdisciplinary patient care with individualized attention to nursing, psychosocial, spiritual and practical needs that may arise at the end of life. Memorial Hospice is proud of serving the Spanish-speaking community with our Latino Grief Services program and bi-lingual patient care staff. Hospice services are provided by professional staff and specially trained caregiver and grief support volunteers. Volunteer trainings are held in the spring and fall with both daytime and evening classes.

Multicultural Palliative Care Guidelines

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:35:02 -0800

These guidelines prepared by the Palliative Care Council of South Australia give an overview of cultural issues when serving Latinos, Vietnamese, and people of Muslim faith. Guidelines consider religion, place of treatment, communication of diagnosis/prognosis, role of family/relative/friends, role of health professionals/volunteers, attitudes to pain relief and euthanasia, taboo words, handling of the body, burial and other issues.

National Heart Lung and Blood Institute

Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:36:49 -0800

The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute provides numerous educational materials in Spanish concerning a variety of diseases and conditions. Health Topics provides science-based, plain-language information related to heart, lung, and blood diseases and conditions and sleep disorders. The site contains articles on diseases, conditions, tests, procedures, and other relevant topics, which you can e-mail, print, and share. New topics will be added regularly.

National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:38:16 -0800

The mission of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) is to promote minority health and to lead, coordinate, support, and assess the National Institutes on Health effort to reduce and ultimately eliminate health disparities. In this effort NIMHD will conduct and support basic, clinical, social, and behavioral research, promote research infrastructure and training, foster emerging programs, disseminate information, and reach out to minority and other health disparity communities. The NIMHD envisions an America in which all populations will have an equal opportunity to live long, healthy and productive lives.

Reluctant Realism - Latino Perspective on End of Life Issues

Thu, 3 Nov 2005 10:00:49 -0800

Reluctant Realism
by Margaret R. McLean and Margaret A. Graham published in Issues in Ethics, Winter, 2003 Volume 14, Number 1, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University pp. 7-9.

To assist in the goal of improving the Latino health care experience in the San Jose community, 66 adults agreed to participate in a series of three focus group sessions that explored their attitudes and concerns regarding end-of-life care. This article presents their views of death and dying, their interactions with the health care system, and their concerns about discussing these issues with their families.

Thinking Ahead: My Way, My Choice, My Life at the End

Fri, 13 May 2011 13:16:12 -0700

This advance care planning workbook was designed by and for people with developmental disabilities to enable them to do their own advance care planning. A DVD video is also available and may be previewed online. This project was created by the California Coalition for Compassionate Care, the Board Resource Center and Mark Starford who has extensive experience and expertise in adapting complex information for persons with developmental disabilities. This is also a great resource to use when working with the frail elderly, people with low reading comprehension or anytime simplification of complex advance health care planning issues would be helpful. It is also available in Spanish and Chinese.