April 21, 2015—The annual TED conference invites some of the world’s most accomplished and eclectic thinkers to share their findings and visions with the world. This year’s lineup in Vancouver, Canada totaled 58 speakers and included one of San Francisco’s own — BJ Miller, the executive director of the Zen Hospice Project. Responding to San Francisco’s HIV epidemic, the Zen Hospice Project got its start back in the late 1980s. Medicine often focuses on bringing patients back to health, but that’s not always helpful if a patient is near the end. Caregivers with… [Read More…]
Listen: Healing the mind by way of hospice
Feb. 10, 2015–When someone is dying, sometimes the best medicine is not medicine at all. And sometimes what needs to be healed, is not the body, but the mind. That’s the kind of care taking that Paul Kelley takes pride in doing. When Kelley began his career as a hospice worker in 1983, he knew instantly that he had found his calling. “I can’t fix my toilet at home, I can’t fix the car, I can’t do bookkeeping, I can’t do computers. But I can be with someone who is dying,… [Read More…]
