Developing Hospices within the Jewish Community


 

Publication Date: January 1986

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Audrey P. Harris

Research Area: Culture and religion; Health

Keywords: Communal Organization; Health; Terminally Ill

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

Identification of an expanded cultural framework for providing care has also stimulated the Jewish community to extrapolate a Jewish perspective from Jewish lore and precepts in helping the Jewish terminally ill.