Study group on End of Life: Medical and psychological perspectives
Participants are based in the fields of Medicine, Nursing, Social work, Public Health and Health Professions from different institutions around Israel, and work as nurses, palliative caregivers, physicians, psychologists, lawyers and social workers. The discussions focus on understanding end-of-life as a distinct stage and possibilities to improve the experience of people at that stage.
► Preliminary mapping of the topics and building an initial plan forum
► What is The Good Death? Facilitator: Prof. Jiska Cohen-Mansfield, Tel Aviv University
► End of life decision making. Facilitator: Prof. Netta Bentor, Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute, Jerusalem
► Joint discussion meeting for both study groups: The decomposition of corpses and corpus in the literary work of
S. Y. Agnon. Discussion of text: Agnon, S.Y. (1962) Ha'Esh Ve'Haezim (The fire and the woods).
Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: Shoken Press.
► Euthanasia. Facilitator: Prof. Shai lavi, Tel Aviv University
► Changes in Israeli Society and the perception of end of life. Facilitator: Dr. Yaffa Lerman,
Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov)
► Joint discussion meeting for both study groups: On the Death of Children. Facilitator: Prof. Thomas Macho,
Humboldt University of Berlin
► Coping with death of people with dementia in premises for people with dementia. Facilitator: Rachel Birenbaum,
Melabev, Jerusalem
► Questionnaires to measure suffering. Facilitator: Dr. Bechor Zvi Aminoff, Geriatric department, The Chaim Sheba
Medical Center at Tel HaShomer
► Legal and Halachic aspects on end on life. Facilitator: Dr. Yossi Green, Netanya Academic College
