Monthly Reading
The 2024 July "Monthly Reading" article "安心茶話屋馬來西亞引導員分享" is a collective reflection from the facilitators of the in-person Heart to Heart Cafe held in Malaysia at the end of March, 2024. In the article, they talked about their experience in communicating with the participants and what can be improved in the future.
We started the "Monthly Reading" column on the CACCC website in 2019. In the past two years, we shared many touching stories from our volunteers and our members about facing end-of-life with theirs loved ones or patients. If you have a story you would like to share, please send a short article (English or Chinese) together with a recent picture to info@caccc-usa.org.
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NoCal Bliss and Wisdom Buddhism Foundation and CACCC jointly held a workshop for California Advance Health Care Directive. Around 100 people attended this workshop and spent 3 hours in learning this meaningful topic.
New Guide to Improve Equity and Increase Access to Hospice and Palliative Care for Chinese Americans
In celebration of Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month and in partnership with the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), the Chinese American Coalition for Compassionate Care (CACCC) is pleased to announce the release of NHPCO’s new Chinese American Resource Guide, Edition 2022, that replaces a previous resource. The guide, developed by NHPCO’s Diversity Advisory Council, will improve equity and increase access to hospice and palliative care for Chinese Americans. Click here to download the Guide.
Following is a short abstract of the article. Click here to see the full article.
“Heart to Heart Cards: A Novel, Culturally Tailored, Community-Based Advance Care Planning Tool for Chinese Americans”
Results:
The 54 HTH Cards were organized into 4 suits (spiritual, physical, financial/legal, and social). Each card displayed a culturally-tailored EOL issue in English and Chinese. Play styles included one-on-one and group formats (ie. HTH Café). CACCC volunteers conducted 316 HTH Cafés for 2,267 Chinese American adults. The top priority was “If I’m going to die anyway, I don’t want to be kept alive by machines.” Participants thought the session was pleasant and expressed intent to complete advance directives (86.5%).
Conclusion:
HTH Cards represents the first, theory-driven, culturally-tailored ACP tool for Chinese Americans. More research is needed to establish its impact on ACP conversations and outcomes.
查詢您所在地區的安寧緩和療護服務機構,可在以下網站查詢,也可以詢問您的保險單位。 美華慈心不做推薦。
1. National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
https://www.nhpco.org/find-a-care-provider/
2. Get Palliative Care
https://getpalliativecare.org/howtoget/find-a-palliative-care-team/
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https://hospicefoundation.org/End-of-Life-Support-and-Resources/Coping-with-Terminal-Illness/How-to-Choose
- In June 2019, the founder of CACCC, Ms. Sandy Chen Stokes, the board member Dr. Gary Lee and volunteer Cheryl Chi visited Wuhan, China to help with the growth and development of palliative and hospice care among Chinese health care professionals. The trip was sponsored by Project HOPE. During their visit, they conducted a four day training class to a group of nurses from the major hospitals in Wuhan, and attended Oncology Nursing Committee annual meeting. Dr. Lee shared wrote an article to share his experience with all the CACCC friends.
- On behalf of the staffs, the volunteers and all the patients and family members who were or will be benefited by our services, the board of directors of CACCC would like to thank and congratulate the great success of the Tsai Chi Charity Concert organized by Chinese Cancer Memorial Foundation (CCMF). As one of the beneficiary organizations of the concert, CACCC, together with the other four organizations, received $125,000 donation out of a total of $627,000 net profit. CACCC is deeply grateful for the generosity of all the donors and will strive to serve the Chinese community with end-of-life need.
- The founder of CACCC, Ms. Sandy Chen Stokes is invited to serve as a panelist in "Improving Access to and Equity of Care for People with Serious Illness: A Workshop" organized by The National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine on 4/4 at Washington DC. For more detail, please click here. Ms. Sandy Chen Stokes's talk can be viewed here.
- There is a new end-of-life conversation video posted on AARP AAPI Community Facebook. In this video, Melinda Leong Capozzi (CACCC Board Member) and her mother played Heart to Heart® Cards and talked about end-of-life preferences. Another five AARP videos will be previewing in the next few weeks. Please share the video with your friends.
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