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• Amitabha Hospice Service (Auckland, New Zealand) Hospice 'Volunteer Caregiver' support in all suburbs of greater Auckland. Following the World Health Organization's guidelines for palliative care, the NZ Palliative Care Strategy and the NZ Cancer Strategy for Palliative Care, we provide free practical help and companionship for those with progressive degenerative conditions / terminal illness with specially trained volunteers. Contact person: Ecie Hursthouse Amitabha Hospice Tradition: Tibetan
Buddhist but encourages non-sectarian approach • Amitiyus Hospice Service (Byron Shire Region, Northern New South Wales, Australia) Amitayus Hospice Service was formed in 1994/95 to fill a perceived service gap for those people wishing to remain at home whilst living with a life threatening illness. We are a not-for-profit organisation and registered as a Public Benevolent Institution. We are recognized as a service provider for the Department of Veterans' Affairs. We assist people to maintain control over there lives. We support people of all belief systems on a non-denominational and non-discriminatory basis. Amitayus endeavours
to provide comprehensive support for the physical, emotional and spiritual
needs of our clients. Our volunteers work closely with medical practitioners,
community and palliative care nurses and other community services.
All our volunteer carers have graduated from the Amitayus Carers'
Training Course. Amitayus Hospice
Service • Association of Engaged Buddhists (Sydney, Australia) The Association of Engaged Buddhists provides assistance and support to those who are suffering from serious or life-threatening illness throughout the Greater Sydney area. All major hospitals and hospices are visited by Sangha or volunteer members. The Association also provides a home visitation service to anyone requesting this service. Sangha and members provide guidance and instruction in meditation practice (including various healing practices) to people in their homes, hospices, or hospitals. They also assist in other ways such as pain relief, preparation for death and grief counselling. Currently the Association is attempting to establish a live-in hospice/retreat centre in the Sydney area in order to provide more intensive assistance to those who might benefit from such an opportunity. Various fund-raising activities are taking place in order to realise this goal. Anyone who is interested or who would like to assist in establishing this centre can obtain more information from Sangha Lodge. Inquires:
Ven. Tejadhammo • Melbourne Zen Hospice (Melbourne, Australia) Inquiries and new referrals are always welcome and can be made via our Melbourne Zen Hospice • Wheel of Life - Hospice Service (Kensington, WA, Australia) Help for the Dying and Their Carers Helping others wherever one can, according to their needs, is the true expression of compassion. Wheel of Life – Hospice Service aims to offer this gift of affection and love, companionship and emotional and spiritual support to those individuals and their families who are facing life-threatening illness, to the dying, to those who have died and to those who are left grieving. The Coordinator of the Wheel of Life-Hospice Service is Venerable Losang Chodron. Wheel of Life is a community service of the Hayagriva Buddhist Centre. • Metta Institute (California, USA) Inspired by the Buddhist tradition, Metta Institute was established to provide innovative education and professional training on spirituality in dying. Metta Institute's primary program is the End-of-Life Care Practitioner Program from which has grown a national network of educators, advocates and guides for those facing life-threatening illness and the individuals and systems that serve them. Our Institute was formed in 2004 as an outgrowth of the Zen Hospice Project. Our Director, Frank Ostaseski helped form ZHP in 1987 and guided the program for 17 years. The Metta faculty includes Ram Dass, Zoeketsu Norman Fischer, Rachel Naomi Remen MD and others Metta Institute • Anicca House
(Santa Cruz, USA) Anicca House • Buddhist HIV/AIDS Projects (New York, USA) The White Plum Buddhist AIDS Network is a non-profit group organised to facilitate resource sharing, information exchange and support for Buddhist groups and people with HIV-AIDS, and for those working in these communities. Email:
ohara@is.nyu.edu • Buddhist Lotus Hospice Care Foundation (Taiwan) A Buddhist Hospice in Taiwan where Buddhist philosophy and practices are used to comfort and inspire the dying and the bereaved to develop spiritually and particularly to be reborn in Amitabha Buddha's paradise. The Buddhist Lotus Hospice Care Foundation (the Lotus Foundation ) was founded in July 1994. It was established by a group of Buddhist medical professionals and Buddhists working in hospitals, pharmacies and related professions. The Board consists of 15 members including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, monks and social workers. The Lotus Foundation had four major goals: (1) To provide Buddhist spiritual care; (2) To promote filial doctrine; (3) To relieve the patient's suffering and the family's bereavement; (4) To establish a model of Buddhist terminal care in Taiwan. Website: www.lotushcf.org.tw • The Buddhist Hospice Trust (London, England) Hospice in the Heart. "Meeting the spiritual needs of seriously ill and dying Buddhists." The Buddhist Hospice Trust aims to provide compassionate care and companionship for the living, the dying and the bereaved. The Trust is non-sectarian and is open to Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. We also offer informal support and information to whomsoever may be concerned to better understand Buddhist approaches to living and dying. The Trust is not a "bricks-and-mortar" set-up. There is no hospice building, no paid staff, formal hierarchy or central office. Being a small and rather scattered organisation, we rely on the willingness of members to be proactive, to network in their own localities, and to keep in touch with each other by whatever means they can. Increasingly this means via the Internet. Website: www.buddhisthospice.org.uk Emergency Contacts: Dennis Sibley • Maitreya Hospice Care (North Queensland, Australia) The motto of our organisation is "Caring for the Carer". We are a non profit group of volunteers who give in home respite to the carers of palliatively ill loved ones. All our volunteers are trained and screened appropriately to give support the families and carers of those who are dying. If you would like more information about our organisation please contact the coordinator on the above number. Coordinator: Ven. Rinchen Wangmo Maitreya Hospice Care • Shagged P'hande Ling (Maine, USA) Chagdud P'hande Ling, an intergenerational Buddhist community dedicated to serving the elderly, ill, and dying, under the direction of H.E. Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, is in Saco, Maine, USA. CPL offers teachings and empowerments with visiting Chagdud Gonpa and other Lamas, weekly and regular meditations of Red Tara, P'howa, and other Nyingma tradition Vajrayana meditations, and monthly Open Houses for potential residents and clients. Contact:
Marina Stretch, MHS • Cittamani Hospice Service (Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia) A branch of Karuna Hospice Service: 'Hospice at home'. Full palliative care service to people facing terminal illness in the Sunshine Coast area north of Brisbane, Queensland. This service is offered to people of all faiths or of no faith. Who do we care for? We care for adults and children who have a life expectancy of less than six months and who: normally reside on the Sunshine Coast; have a carer available; and have a general practitioner who is willing to be involved in home based care. Inquiries regarding referrals can be made by telephoning our Cittamani Office on (07) 5445.0822 Contact:
Alex Moore (Director) Phone:
(07) 5445.0822, Fax: (07) 5445.0688 • Hospice of Mother Tara (Bunbury, Western Australia) This service assist the terminally ill with relaxation and meditation support when requested. There is a close connection with the Bunbury Cancer Support Group with visits once a month with meditation classes focussing on people with life threatening illness. Buddhist Meditation
and Healing Centre Contact:
Ms Glenda Lee Email:
gleehmt@geo.net.au • Karuna Hospice Service (Brisbane, Australia) Karuna is located in Brisbane, Queensland, in Australia. It offers compassionate home-based care for individuals and their loved ones who are facing a life-threatening illness. Karuna cares for adults and children who have a life expectancy of less than six months and who: normally reside in the Brisbane suburbs north of the Brisbane river; have a carer available and; have a general practitioner who is willing to be involved in home-based care. To maintain the quality of our care, we necessarily have to place a limit on the number of families we care for at any one time. Email: karuna@karuna.org.au Karuna
Hospice Service - Caboolture Caboolture
Care Team • Insight Hospice & Healing Project (USA) A Hospice and Healing Volunteer Outreach project based in a Theravada Buddhist Tradition serving people of all religions. Life is process, and death is but one event during this enormous unfolding. It is not a matter of life or death, of healing or dying, but simply of life which includes death, healing which excludes nothing. It means living our death, healing our dying. - Stephen Levine Contact: Insight Hospice
& Healing Project Website: www.insighthospice.org • Pure Lotus Hospice of Compassion (Penang, Malaysia) Pure Lotus Hospice of Compassion is a non profit charitable organisation providing in-patient hospice care for patients with advance cancer. It is the aspiration of a Buddhist nun who was a nurse tutor. It is her vision to have a hospice where the sick and suffering can find solace, the poor are not denied care and the dying find peace of mind. She found a response in a medical doctor and a group of supporters. A monk of like mind joined in to make the vision a reality. The Hospice is opened to all regardless of race and religion. PLHOC is staffed by a Medical Doctor who is a consultant in Palliative Medicine, volunteer doctors and qualified nurses. Medical and nursing care are available round the clock, with volunteer input. Contact information: Venerable Lyan
Shih Email:
purelotus@pd.jaring.my • Friends For Life (Thailand) A hospice for poor or abandoned persons with AIDS in Thailand. In the Chiang Mai Northern Region 400,000 people are living with AIDS, beyond the capacity of the government to care for them. In addition to providing residential hospice services for 200 terminal AIDS patients per year, the Friends For Life Home seeks to develop an innovative, cost-effective model for AIDS care in underdeveloped areas. It trains 2,000 people per year in low-cost family caregiving modalities following Buddhist principles. The website has a good link collection of resources for AIDS and HIV in Asian countries. Website: www.friendsforlife.org • Baan Peuan Cheewit (Thailand) Baan Peuan Cheewit Telephone: 053-283-272 or 01-952-5944 The Thai Buddhist monk, Phra Phongthep Dhammagaruko, established a temple hospice for people with AIDS in the Northern Thai city of Chiang Mai. Called Baan Peuan Cheewit [Friends of Life House], it assists people with AIDS who are abandoned by their families and trains families to care for people with HIV/AIDS. • Shakyamuni Community Health Care Centre (Bodhgaya, India) This is a clinic in Bodhgaya, India which operates six days a week, employing local doctors, a nurse and a medical assistant who jointly administer to over five hundred patients each week. The main modality of treatment is homeopathic and nutritional therapy, but Ayurvedic and allopathic medicines are also used when required. Shakyamuni Buddha Community Health Care Centre originated in 1991, when Lama Zopa Rinpoche, one of his Gurus and a group of westerners found an old man lying in the road covered in flies and close to death, took him back to Root Institute and nurtured him until he died peacefully some six months later. Gradually, the Health Care Centre started offering medical care to the many sick and needy people living in the rural areas surrounding Bodhgaya. Website: website.lineone.net/~rootinstitute/social_work/health-care.html • Spiritual Care Program (Europe and North America) The aim of the Spiritual Care Program is to demonstrate practical ways in which the compassion and wisdom of the Buddhist teachings can be of benefit to those facing illness or death and also to their families and medical caregivers. Based on the teachings of Sogyal Rinpoche and his classic bestseller, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, together with insights drawn from hospice experience, we offer an integrated approach for people from diverse cultural and religious backgrounds. Our seminars, study groups and trainings emphasize universal spiritual principles which many people find resonate with those of their own tradition. Spiritual Care
Program • Heart Lotus Palliative Care Wards (Taiwan) The Tzu Chi's
Medical network has several hospitals around Taiwan, two of them Tzu
Chi General Hospital in Hualien and in Dalin have hospice care wards
established. Two other hospitals in construction, Tanze and Hsintien,
will also have the same "Heart Lotus Palliative Care Ward".
With two hospices already established, it may well be the first network
of hospices in Taiwan. Website: www.tzuchi.com.tw • Zen Hospice Project (San Francisco, USA) Inspired by a 2500-year-old spiritual tradition, Zen Hospice Project encourages and supports a mutually beneficial relationship among volunteer caregivers and individuals facing death. This nationally-innovative model of conscious care provides a spectrum of collaborative volunteer programs, residential care, and trainings which aim at cultivating wisdom and compassion through service. Its mission is to seed the culture with new approaches to end-of-life care. Through educational programs, intensive trainings, public dialogues, experiential workshops, and consulting services, the Institute works to reaffirm the spiritual dimensions of dying. Contact: • Welfare Services Team of the Amitabha Buddhist Center (Singapore) The centre now has a small but steady group of hospice volunteers who regularly visit the Dover Park Hospice. The hospice, located beside the Tan Tock Seng Hospital house about 40 patients of whom about 80% are Buddhist/Taoist. At the current moment, our volunteer work centres around general duties, like changing bedsheets, changing diapers of those invalid and basically lending a listening ear to these patients. As we get familiarised with the hospice management, we will seek to provide spiritual help like prayer sessions, taking-and-giving meditation or loving-kindness meditation to those patients who are keen. Kindly contact:
Suriani at 2285786 if you are keen to join. • The Buddhist Hospice Trust (United Kingdom) The Buddhist Hospice Trust acts as a bridge to hospices and providers of palliative care services for Buddhist organisations and individuals. It provides an a Buddhist advisory and consultative service on hospice and palliative care issues to the wider community, and on Buddhist perspectives on living and dying. The Trust offers public meetings, occasional training events, and publications on hospice and related matters. The Trust is managed by a Board of trustees. The Chairman is Peter Goble. Kushog Pema Jigme Choder is an advisor. Contact information: • Hospices Care Services in Singapore Assisi Home
and Hospice Dover Park
Hospice Hospice Care
Association St Joseph's
Home Other Hospice Resources: • Hospice Hands (USA) Hospice
Hands has an extensive collection of links to hospice-related sites
and articles on the net, a hospice Q & A forum, discussion room
that is open to all, hospice employment pages, and information on
hospices around the world. • The Connecticut Hospice (USA) The Connecticut Hospice inaugurated hospice care in America in 1974. Since then, it has been the beacon and teacher of the growing hospice movement throughout the nation, and beyond. Connecticut Hospice addresses physical, spiritual, social, and emotional needs of patients with advanced irreversible illness, and their families. Such care is provided regardless of diagnosis and as long as the Hospice level of care is needed by the patients. Website: www.hospice.com • Growth House (USA)
A comprehensive directory for end-of-life issues, including palliative
care, hospice information, bereavement, and related topics.
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