Quick overview: YouTube Channel additions
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- Preparing Healthcare Providers for Age-Friendly Patient Empowerment
- CAPC’s Serious Illness Scorecard How is Hawai’i doing?
- What Matters to Older NativeHawaiians? A Qualitative Study of Care Preferences
- What is a Death Doula?
- Advance Care Planning for Native Hawaiian Kūpuna with Puni Kekauoha
- Innovations in Advance Care Planning
- Kōkua Mauʻs Palliative Care Awareness Committee
- Palliative Care PR: Exploring new message strategies
- 2023 ACT Index Report and what this data means for Hawaii
- Grieving Lahaina: Past and Present
- Radical Death Studies & the Association for Death Education and Counseling
- Highlights Kōkua Mau Activities 2023
- Quick overview Kōkua Mau Website
- Nechama: the Jewish Path of Comfort at the End of Life
- Updates from Maui Hospice about the fires and the community response
- What is the Kūpuna Collective?
- Improved Hawaii POLST Form 2023 step-by-step essentials with Dr. Daniel Fischberg
- Bereavement Network of Hawaii – What is it?
- Community Health Workers and how they can help in serious illness care
- Palliative Care Nursing Education at Chaminade University of Honolulu
- Compassionate Care and Evidence-Based Practice: Is it possible for them to co-exist?
- Ohana Pacific Medical a Medical Clinic in Your Home
- Advance Care Planning Billing and Coding for Billing Clinicians
- Psychedelic Medicine and Palliative Care: An exploration of old and ancient therapies to address twenty-first century clinical challenges
- A Caregivers Journey with Palliative Care in 3 minutes
- Prognostication and Palliative Care
- LymphaCare Hawaii advocates for cancer survivors who develop lymphedema
- Palliative Care – Extra Support for People with Cancer
- A Caregivers Journey with Palliative Care
- VA Resources for Seriously Ill Veterans in Hawaii
- Veterans Benefits and Entitlements
- Palliative Care Awareness Campaign on Instagram in Hawaii
- Advance Care Planning Innovations in Community Outreach in Hawaii
- Update on POLST nationally, new documents and the national POLST Form
- An Update on Hawaii’s Our Care Our Choice Act
- Innovations in Palliative Care
- Help with stress and and anxiety in COVID-19 times – Thought Field Therapy (TFT)
- Funerals and Memorials in the times of COVID-19
- Mapping Palliative Care in the State of Hawaii
- Palliative Care Summit in Hawaii 2020
- Advance Care Planning in the time of COVID-19 in Hawaii
- Questions about Medicare? – The ABCD’s of Medicare explained
- How to Help Your Older Parent
CAPC’s Serious Illness Scorecard. How is Hawaii doing? How can we improve?
CAPC’s Serious Illness Scorecard rates each state’s capacity to deliver high-quality care to people living with a serious illness, and their families and caregivers.
Stacie Sinclair, CAPC’s Associate Director, Policy and Care Transformation presents the findings and provides an in-depth report on each state’s palliative care landscape. She offers actionable recommendations to improve palliative care access in each state or region.
What Matters to Older NativeHawaiians? A Qualitative Study of Care Preferences
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A study by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Hā Kūpuna – National Resource Center for Native Hawaiian Elders has examined the end-of-life care preferences of Native Hawaiian kūpuna (Elders). Led by Laguna Pueblo and Quechan woman, Assistant Professor Miquela Ibrao, researchers from UH and ALU LIKE, Inc. identified culturally specific approaches to support kūpuna values in healthcare.
“Death is not an end but a transition that honors relationality, ancestors and the land,” Assistant Professor Ibrao said. “Decolonizing end-of-life care means respecting cultural beliefs and embracing Indigenous wisdom about healing and living well.” The study, published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine, is based on interviews with 20 kūpuna aged 60 and over from rural areas across Hawaiʻi. It highlights four key themes.
- Cultural perspectives on death: Kūpuna view death as a transition that acknowledges relationships with ancestors and the land.
- Traditional healing practices: Lāʻau lapaʻau (herbal medicine) and lomilomi (massage) are essential aspects of care.
- Family-centered decision-making: ʻOhana (family) plays a central role in healthcare choices, with deceased ancestors and the ʻāina (land) seen as sources of guidance and healing.
- Preference for home-based care: Many kūpuna wish to age and die at home but fear burdening their families, with limited long-term care options in rural areas adding to the challenge.