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"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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Co-Director of the Center
Irving Sherwood Wright
Professor in Geriatrics
Professor of Sociology in Medicine
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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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.
Study participant recruiting (with $100 compensation): Honoring and Memorializing the Deceased in Your Memory Home
The Cornell Center for Research on End-of-Life Care is now recruiting participants for our Living Memory Home study (with $100 compensation). To participate in the Memory Home Study, sign up at the link: Living Memory Home Online Bereavement Resource Beta Testing or contact wjs2004@med.cornell.edu
News
Events
Harlem health and wellness fair
Welcome Lili Tang, MD, the director of the Dept., of Psycho-Oncology Beijing Cancer Hospital, Peking University
Center for Research on End-of-Life Care Health & Wellness Fair
Empower team
