Director’s Welcome

Thank you for your interest in the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life. As you explore our Web pages, I trust you will find valuable information about the Institute that also is helpful to you, your family, or your organization or program.

The Institute, born in 2000, has a bright future. We have facilitated and conducted important conversations with diverse religious, spiritual, patient and advocacy communities concerned about access to and quality of palliative and end-of-life care. Our trademark interdisciplinary educational conferences include: Crossing Over Jordan^© and the Last Miles of the Way Home^© for African-American and other communities of color; Magnified and Sanctified^© for Jewish communities, and Suffer the Children^© for children who are seriously ill or dying. Read more »

 

Mission & Guiding Principles

The Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life - A catalyst for growth and transformation, a global resource to improve care for those at life’s end.

The mission of the Institute is to create and promote the growth of knowledge and to encourage the application of that knowledge in caring for the whole person at life’s end. Read more »