Hospice
Service
Amitabha Hospice
Service (Auckland, New Zealand)
We provide free practical
help and compassionate companionship to people who are elderly, or are
chronically or terminally ill with trained volunteers in every area of
greater Auckland. Caregiver Training is held four times a year as well as
classes on meditation, Buddhism, Reiki and stress management for carers
and the ill.
Amitabha Hospice Service
6 Lyttleton Avenue, Forrest Hill, Auckland 1309 NZ
Contact persons: Ecie
Hursthouse or Ven. Tardo
Tel: (09) 410-1431, Fax: (09) 410-1432
Email:
amitabha@stupa.org.nz
Website:
www.amitabhahospice.org
Tradition: Tibetan Buddhist
but encourages non-sectarian approach
Affiliation: Foundation for the Preservation of Mahayana Tradition (FPMT)
Spiritual Director: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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.
If you like to know more
about Amitayus please contact us at:
Amitayus Hospice Service
P.O. Box 696 Mullumbimby NSW 2482
Phone/Fax: (02) 6684 3808
Email:
amitayus@mullum.com.au
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
Email:
sanghalodge@bigpond.com
Phone/Fax: (02) 9590 3617
Sangha Lodge: 20 Victoria Street
Lewisham, Sydney, NSW 2049
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
Website:
Buddhist HIV/AIDS Projects - Engaged Buddhism
Buddhist AIDS Project
(San Francisco)
The San Francisco,
California-based Buddhist AIDS Project (BAP) provides free information and
referral to Buddhist resources and events, and to alternative medical
services for anyone living with HIV/AIDS – including family, friends,
caregivers, and people who are HIV negative.
San Francisco based
non-profit provides free information and referral to:
• Current HIV/AIDS news,
with links to local, national, and international resources;
• Buddhist teachings, practice centers, and special events;
• Complementary Alternative Medicine services. Updated weekly; Monthly
e-mail "News" available.
Steve Peskind:
Volunteer/Co-ordinator Buddhist AIDS Project
Email:
buddhistap@hotmail.com
24 Hour Voicemail: 415.586.4368
Website:
www.buddhistaidsproject.org
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:
Peter Goble
Email:
pgoble@buddhisthospice.org.uk
Tel: 01268 741419 or 01268 775521
Dennis Sibley
Email:
dsibley@buddhisthospice.org.uk
Cairns Hospice at Home
Volunteers (North Queensland,
Australia)
Cairns Hospice at Home Volunteers Inc
P.O. Box 448 Smithfield Qld 4879
Phone: 07 40592138
Email:
cairnshospiceathome@bigpond.com
Coordinator: Rinchen Wangmo
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.
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
129 Smutty Lane, Saco, ME 04072 USA
Phone: (207) 286-1602
Email:
cpl@ime.net
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)
Cittamani Hospice Service
230 Woombye - Palmwoods Road, Palmwoods, Queensland 4555
Postal Address: PO Box 324 Palmwoods, Qld 4555
Phone:
(07) 5445.0822, Fax: (07) 5445.0688
Email:
cittamanihospice@powerup.com.au
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
Unit 3, 2B Victoria Street, Bunbury WA 6230
Contact:
Ms Glenda Lee
Phone: (08) 9791 9798
Fax: (08) 9721 9497
Email:
gleehmt@geo.net.au
Website:
Hospice of Mother Tara
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:
100251.1722@compuserve
Website:
Karuna Hospice homepage
Inquiries regarding referral can be made to our
Nursing Co-ordinator by telephoning our office on (07) 3857 8555
The Karuna Hospice Service, PO Box 2020, Windsor, Queensland 4030
Karuna Hospice Service -
Caboolture
PO Box 600 Caboolture, Queensland
4510
Phone: (07) 5499 3911
Caboolture Care Team
The office is located at 8 Lee
Street, Caboolture
(50 minutes north of Brisbane) 24 hour holistic care at home.
Contact: Grace McGregor - Phone (07) 5499 3911
Maitri AIDS Hospice
(San Francisco, USA)
A compassionate residential
hospice in San Francisco for those with late-stage AIDS. Also specialise
in care for double - and triple - diagnosed residents (AIDS, addiction,
and/or psychiatric diagnosis) following a harm-reduction model. The Maitri
website provides links to Buddhist resources for AIDS and HIV on the net.
Website:
www.wenet.net/~maitri
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
335 27th Avenue, San Francisco CA. 94121
Tel: (415) 752-2436
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
Pure Lotus Hospice of Compassion
4, Jalan Wright 10350 Pulau, Penang, Malaysia
Phone/Fax: (604) 2295481
Email:
purelotus@pd.jaring.my
Website:
www.purelotus.org
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
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.
Website:
www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/7733/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
c/o Dzogchen Beara Spiritual Care Center
Garranes Allihies, West Cork, Ireland
Tel: +353 (0) 27 73 032
Email:
info@spcare.org
Website:
www.spcare.org
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.
The Tzu Chi hospitals are sponsored/funded by the Buddhist Compassion
Relief Tzu Chi Foundation. There are hundreds of offices around the world
including some 76 in America. With the missions of charity, medicine,
education, and culture, Tzu Chi volunteers "care with compassion, give
with joy", practicing compassion and wisdom in their daily lives.
Heart Lotus Palliative Care Ward
Tzu Chi General Hospital in Dalin
2, Minsheng Road, Talin Town, Chiayi, Taiwan
Phone: 886-5-2648000
Tzu Chi General Hospital in Hualien
707, 3rd Section, Chungyang Road, Hualien City, Taiwan
Phone: 886-3-8561825, Fax: 886-3-8560977
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.
Zen hospice has also
started an educational venture, the Institute on Dying. 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:
Zen Hospice Project
Institute on Dying a program of Zen Hospice Project
273 Page Street, San Francisco, CA. 94102
Phone: 415.863.2910, Fax: 415.863.1768
Email:
mail@zenhospice.org
Website:
www.zenhospice.org
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.
Website:
sunflower.singnet.com.sg/~fpmtsing/w-team.html
Hospices Care Services in Singapore
Assisi Home and Hospice
820 Thomson Road, Singapore 574623
Tel: 359 7819; Fax: 253 5312
Dover Park Hospice
10 Jalan Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore 308436
Tel: 355 8200; Fax: 258 9007
Hospice Care Association
12 Jalan Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore 308437
Tel: 251 2561; Fax: 352 2030
St Joseph's Home
921 Jurong Road, Singapore 649694
Tel: 268 0482; Fax: 268 4787
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.
Website:
Hospice Hand Link
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.
Website:
Resource Directory
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