Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch, senior rabbi of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York, discusses the upcoming Re-CHARGING Reform Judaism conference being held at the synagogue May 31-June 1. [Read more…]
Dr. Robin Plumer discusses Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) in New Jersey. In 2020, Dr. Plumer started Compassionate Endings NJ, a practice devoted to MAID with a former nurse colleague who shares her passion for intensely personalized and comprehensive patient care. [Read more…]
Mary Naylor, the Marian S. Ware Professor in Gerontology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and director of the NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health discusses the nursing school’s Caregiving Now initiative in partnership with NewCourtland. [Read more…]
On this week’s episode of the Seekers of Meaning TV Show and Podcast, Eileen Levinson discusses her websites Haggadot.com, where visitors can create customized siddurim for Passover observances, and ReCustom.com, where users can create other personalized life-cycle observance rituals. [Read more…]
On this week’s episode of the Seekers of Meaning TV Show and Podcast, author Stephen G. Post, Ph.D., discusses his books, Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People: How Caregivers Can Meet the Challenges of Alzheimer’s Disease and God and Love on Route 80: The Hidden Mystery of Human Connectedness. [Read more…]
Rabbi Jason Weiner, senior rabbi and director of the Spiritual Care Department at Cedars-Sinai Health System in Los Angeles, discusses his new book, Care and Covenant: A Jewish Bioethic of Responsibility. [Read more…]
On this week’s episode of the Seekers of Meaning TV Show and Podcast, Rabbi Address speaks with Michael Liben, host of the Bereaved But Still Me podcast. [Read more…]
On this week’s episode of the Seekers of Meaning TV Show and Podcast, documentary filmmaker Sky Bergman discusses her film, “Lives Well Lived.” The Lives Well Lived film captures the images, ideas, and ideals of those who are proving that aging is something to cherish, that retirement doesn’t mean you retire from life, and that growing older doesn’t mean growing silent. These are the people teaching a growing population of men and women how to age with dignity, grace, energy, and purpose. [Read more…]
This week, Hesh Zinman, Commissioner, Pennsylvania Governor’s Commission on LGBTQ+ Affairs, co-chair of the Aging Workgroup and founder and former chair of the LGBT Elder Initiative, discusses issues of interest to the aging LGBTQ+ community. [Read more…]
Rabbi Address was a guest speaker during a recent webinar series, “Caregiving Now!” for the New Courtland Center for Transitions and Health at the University of Pennsylvania. Several additional webinars are scheduled in the series. [Read more…]
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