Cross-Cultural Considerations in End-of-Life Care

Physicians and other health care professionals practicing in today's culturally diverse society face significant challenges when they treat patients with different beliefs, values and views of health care. These differences are often exacerbated at the end of life, and may include different attitudes towards suffering, how death is addressed and discussed and the expression of pain. This monograph, presented by the UC San Diego School of Medicine, presents practical strategies for the provision of culturally and linguistically competent end-of-life care. For more information and to register, click here.