Back to Community Resources
The Ash Rose Foundation
The Ash Rose Project transforms cherished memories into personalized artwork incorporating cremation ashes, helping families find healing through creativity.
End-of-Life Toolkit: Utilizing the Arts
Are you a healthcare professional, hospice worker, caregiver, grieving a loss? The End-of-Life Toolkit suggests how the arts can ease the final passage.
A resource by City Lore
A complimentary, easily accessible resource that will help you work more effectively with dying patients and their families/friends. Visit the End-of-Life Toolkit, and learn how to use the Arts to ease the dying process and/or assist those who are grieving a loss. Whether you are a healthcare professional, a hospice worker, a caregiver, someone who is grieving the loss of a family member or friend, or even confronting your own death, the Toolkit customizes resources and ideas for you. It showcases videoclips, stories, music/dance, poetry, a variety of art forms, and offers suggestions for making the dying process more person-centered and culturally appropriate. The Toolkit also leads you to the online free accredited course: Harnessing the Power of the Arts for End-of-Life Care (1.75 CEUs). Many of the resources in the Toolkit will touch your heart, as well as provide comfort and solace.
Go to: https://citylore.org/end-of-life-tool-kit/
Faculty for the Toolkit and course are storytellers, folklorists, artists, tradition bearers, a cartoonist. Two National Heritage Award winners are featured. Developed by Phyllis Zimmer, MN, FNP, FAANP, FAAN and Steve Zeitlin, Ph.D.
Supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Our Inspiration
Two high school friends, Steve Zeitlin and Phyllis Arne Zimmer took entirely different career paths, and didn't see each other for many years. Steve became a folklorist and the founding director of City Lore in New Yorker. Phyl became a Nurse Practitioner who taught at the University of Washington in Seattle and founded the Nurse Practitioner Healthcare Foundation. The two stayed in touch and when a grant opportunity arose to bring together the arts with public health, began collaborating on the End-of-Life Toolkit and an e-learning course for healthcare professionals, Harnessing the Power of the Arts for End-of-Life Care.
FREE
Other resources you may like
Insight Dialogue harnesses the power of mutual support and interpersonal responsiveness in service of clear understanding and release.
Lynette Chiu
NYC Death Dispatch is a monthly newsletter compiling death-related events happening in person in New York City.
The Ash Rose Foundation
The Ash Rose Project transforms cherished memories into personalized artwork incorporating cremation ashes, helping families find healing through creativity.
Insight Dialogue harnesses the power of mutual support and interpersonal responsiveness in service of clear understanding and release.
Lynette Chiu
NYC Death Dispatch is a monthly newsletter compiling death-related events happening in person in New York City.
