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Tzu Chiang (2007 CyberFair Project ID 4924)
Taiwan,
Hua-Lien
Official Status:
Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 2. Community Groups and Special Populations
We estimate 11 student(s) from 10 to 12 will work on this entry.
Description of Our Community: The patriarch of hospice palliative care is Dame Cicely Saunders. An institution based on the concept of hospice was started in England and now expanded everywhere in the world. The first hospice palliative home care institution in Taiwan was sited in 1992. It is found by Catholic Sanipax Socio-Medical Service & Education Foundation. Hualien Tzu Chi Medical center set up the first palliative care ward in eastern Taiwan in 1996 and provides an integral hospice palliative care and hospital homecare.
The main idea of "hospice palliative care" is from the concept of "Thanatology". Because talking about death is a taboo subject to the folks in Taiwan. We now named it the theory of living and death. Recently, Education for life has become a important topic that all schools want to introduce to students. The Heart Lotus Ward is located in a wonderful place full of beautiful nature scenery between mountains and sea. There is no better place to provide hospice palliative care in Taiwan. From those experiences that we contacted The Heart Lotus Ward, we've found out that each one of us can face death like……
Project Description: "How to die with dignity" has become an important issue to the advanced cancer patients and also to the hospice palliative care. It is an ideal of emphasizing comfortable death, but not lengthening the length of life. This ideal also shows the value of one's remaining years. Hospice palliative care connects humanistic care with medical technology, and offers the best care and treatment to the parting patients. Hospice palliative care in Heart Lotus provides the patients with holistic care, team care, Family care, and continuing care. The team members include doctors, nurses, social workers, volunteers, psychotherapists, and spiritual caregivers. All members are not only taking care of the patients to the end, but also pulling the patients' family through the sorrow. The Heart Lotus Palliative care takes care of the physical, the mental and the spiritual of the patients and their family. The Heart Lotus seek a win-win situation between clinical institution and the patients. In this project, we hope our students can build a healthy attitude toward the issue of death. We also expect these children can realize the particular meanings of hospice palliative care.