"Putting Research into Action to Help Those Coping with Serious Illness"

The Center for Research on End-of-Life Care combines innovation, practicality, and compassion to advance research in the care of seriously ill patients and their caregivers.
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Grief Intensity Scale

The Grief Intensity Scale assesses common thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of people who have lost someone important to them. The scale is meant to capture the grieving respondent's intensity of his or her reaction to the loss

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We are a transdisciplinary team of clinicians, faculty, and students working to generate new knowledge in the field of end-of-life care

Holly G. Prigerson, Ph.D.

Co-Director of the Center
Irving Sherwood Wright
Professor in Geriatrics
Professor of Sociology in Medicine

Paul Maciejewski, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
of Biostatistics in Radiology
Department of Radiology
Weill Cornell Medicine

Research

Current Research
at Weill Cornell

Browse innovative end-of-life research studies from our faculty and staff. Investigators explore issues relating to the aging and ill population, with subjects ranging from patient cancer care to physician communication.

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Current Research
External Collaborations

Our center offers many opportunities for collaboration with other prestigious medical and academic institutions. Our partnerships address treatments and care for the terminally ill.

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New resources for caring for people with intellectual/developmental disabilities at end of life

An explanation of Prolonged Grief Disorder from the DSM-5-TR & the American Psychiatric Association

Naltrexone Treatment for Prolonged Grief Disorder is now recruiting!

An innovative study, the first of its kind to use naltrexone tablets to treat prolonged grief disorder, is now recruiting! If interested, please contact jmg2016@med.cornell.edu.

Join our "Together While Apart" COVID-19 grief resources site

Connect with people who have experienced similar types of loss in the COVID-19 pandemic, share your stories, hear their stories, provide/receive hugs, and stay connected to support each other.

Help us understand your losses in the time of COVID-19

COVID-19 Loss Assessment

News

11.14.2022

How PGD got into DSM-5-TR, a theory of adjustment to loss, & treatment implications

You can download the slideshow at this link below:

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12.08.2021

New York Times article about PGD and COVID

As Covid Deaths Rise, Lingering Grief Gets a New Name

Prolonged grief disorder was recently added to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, just as...

Events

09.20.2023

How Prolonged Grief Got into DSM

While the notion of pathological grief goes back at least as far as Freud's "Mourning and Melancholia", its recognition as a distinct mental disorder has met with some opposition. Holly Prigerson's work aims to...

10.25.2021

Advancing The Science Of Cancer In Latinos 2022

The Mays Cancer Center and the Institute for Health Promotion Research at UT Health San Antonio are hosting the third international conference on Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos on ...

Harlem health and wellness fair

Welcome Lili Tang, MD, the director of the Dept., of Psycho-Oncology Beijing Cancer Hospital, Peking University

"Putting Research into Action to Help Those Coping with Serious Illness"

Grief Intensity Scale