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The Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life (ICEOL) was founded in 2000 at Duke University. Hospice pioneer Hugh Westbrook gave Duke a $13.5 million founding gift to establish the Institute. ICEOL is based in Duke Divinity School. Its mission 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.

History
Continues to receive large amounts of support from the VITAS charitable foundation

Resources
Key Topics on End-of-Life Care for African Americans The topics in this book range from the impact of health disparities on end of life decision-making to spiritual aspects of care at life’s end, to sociological and cultural perspectives on death and dying, and health policy considerations. Key Topics is a collection of papers that represent the topics covered in the Last Miles Home. Authors include Richard Payne, M.D., Gwendolyn London, D. Min., Sharon Latson, Myra Christopher, Ibrahim Abdul-Malik, Ed. D., Karla Holloway, Ph. D., Bethsheba Johnson, and many others. This series of papers provides African American perspectives on end-of-life care and explore questions about access to hospice and palliative care, and the quality of care delivered in those settings. The project was funded under the Targeted End-of-Life Projects Initiative, through which the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) advanced its strategy to improve care at the end of life. RWJF supported this unsolicited project with an $84,060 grant to the Duke University Divinity School from December 2004 through May 2006.

The Unbroken Circle: A Toolkit for Congregations Around Illness, End of Life, and Grief

Set for publication in June of 2009, The Toolkit was written by James Brooks, M.D.

Jewish Ritual, Reality, and Response at the End of Life

Vesta Vesta is a 90 minute play by Bryan Harnetiaux about how a family deals with the dying process of their matriarch. ICEOL licenses this play to congregations, hospices, community groups, and other organizations as a tool for raising end-of-life discussion.

Vesta was originally licensed by Life's End Institute, based in Missoula, MT. ICEOL became the exclusive licensor of the play when Life's End Institute closed in April of 2007.

Conferences
Last Miles of the Way Home

Magnified and Sanctified

Suffer the Children

Crossing Over Jordan

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