What comes to mind when I hear the name Karen Zander: case manager pioneer, brilliant and compassionate nurse leader, articulate teacher, mentor, and friend. Karen has a unique perspective on health care today as a consumer and provider. While she manages through physical limitations, it has never diminished her passion, commitment or can-do spirit. Her contributions to the case management prac...

India’s economic growth story of the past two decades has a recurrent theme, accentuating insecurities for millions. Yet, there is deep divide over how to distribute fruits its growth. How best plough back gains achieve equality and social protection everyone? Despite status as middle-income country, close 350 million people live in absolute poverty. According an affidavit presented Supreme Cou...

The 2015 publication of Nick Sousanis’s graphic dissertation, Unflattening, opened doors for artist-scholars who challenge conventional research methodologies by producing dissertations, research, and comics-based publications in academic, scientific, medical journals. Unflattening came out one year after I began a PhD program cultural studies at the University California, Davis, with proposed ...

The onset of dementia raises troubling questions. Does the person with dementia still recognize you? If someone cannot recognize you, can they still care about you? This essay takes such questions as the entry point for a broader inquiry into recognition, its linkages to care, and how claims to social and political "recognition" are linked to, or premised on, the demonstrated capacity to "recog...

In September 1998, Health Minister Allan Rock announced new federal hepatitis C funding of +50 million over five years for initiatives relating to community-based support, research, and disease prevention. Since then, broad cross-country consultations have taken place with individuals and their caregivers who are infected, or affected, by this disease; non-governmental organizations; provinces ...

Hospice programs provide comprehensive, compassionate care to dying patients and their families. However, many patients do not enroll in hospice, and those who do generally receive hospice care only in the last weeks of life. Although patients and families rely on their physicians to discuss hospice, there is often inadequate communication between patients and physicians about end-of-life issue...

Research suggests that being self-compassionate can have myriad benefits, including life satisfaction, health-promoting behaviours and improved mental health. Given the possible advantages of being self-compassionate, it seems critical to explore how to promote this in the general population. This qualitative study aimed to understand responses to the idea of being compassionate to oneself with...

BACKGROUND The topos of the Compassionate God is a dominant motive of the Jewish and Christian traditions. It is relevant for nursing because it asks the nurse to imitate God so as to become God-like. Also, to think that God suffers with the suffering believers is thought to give comfort to them. Because in the western world the topos of the Compassionate God represents the basis of the ethics ...

Compassionate capitalism combines the concepts of communism, which aimed for equitable distribution wealth, with principles work, opportunity, and just economic compensation. The socialist paradigms from Marx other contemporaries when seamlessly is merged “ Economic Individualism” Adam Smith its contemporaries, should lead to what can be called Capitalism. currently defined as “the equal access...

The issues of death and dying that have given impetus to the hospice movement include the effect on people with terminal illnesses and their families, impending death, renewed attention to long-term care centers and other alternatives to hospitalization, the scarcity of resources, the emphasis on holistic health, and recognition of the rights of people who are dying to die with dignity. Hospice...