"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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What We Do

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Finding My Way

We all feel a bit lost sometimes, but in the aftermath of a significant loss some of us feel painfully adrift and struggle to find our way. Leveraging proven scientific, evidence-based techniques, we have developed an online web application to help people find their way forward through difficult times. We begin with an assessment of intra-personal and inter-personal needs, and then map an itinerary to address your personalized needs. We are in the development and testing phase of building Finding My Way (FMW). We welcome and appreciate your feedback as it is essential to making FMW as user-friendly and impactful as possible. If you are willing to take a “test drive” of FMW, we would be very grateful and want to learn from you how to make it better. If interested, please send us an email at eolstudysupport@med.cornell.edu or click here to help us evaluate/”beta test” the FMW web app. Thank you!

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

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

02.26.2025

Job Opportunity: Senior Clinical Coordinator of Adult Programs – NYC

https://www.idealist.org/en/nonprofit-job...

10.17.2023

Disparities in End-of-Life Cancer Care

Shannon Westin speaks with Holly Prigerson and Alfred Neugut about their thought-provoking editorial, "...

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...

01.13.2019

American PsychoPathological Association (APPA) Annual Meeting, March 5, 2020

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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