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Connecting Lives -Formerly “Nurses matter too” - Updated 8/5/2016
“How might we provide dying patients and their caregivers precious connections to allow them to live their lives fully?”
Music at the End of Life: Songs for the Dying
Musicians offering their talents at the end of life, playing music and writing songs to honor the dying & the dead.
Mortal(IT)y VR [Updated July 31 - Updates Bolded]
Virtual Reality can be used as an archival tool to capture meaningful moments and thereby, our legacy.
Vykarious
Connect with people around the globe who will cross off the bucket list items you cannot, and will share their experience with you.
I Know Something About This
Create a global, peer-to-peer learning system that taps all the experience individuals have from going through the end of life experience.
Teaching a new mindset about death & dying in our schools by redesigning old views of the process.
All students would learn about death & dying in school. The process can be "re-imaged" as a beautiful part of life instead of scary or sad.
InMyHands
InMyHands is a creative way for independent types to capture and update end-of-life wishes, without navigating complex systems and forms.
Listen - Collect - Create [update in description 8.7.16]
Creating stories, tales and legends inspired by the lives lived by our loved ones.
Death-Ed: because abstinence is not an option
Death-Ed aims to normalize and prepare our youth for the ultimate life challenge through which we will all pass.
Gardening Connection - Update 8/4/16 (UX Map and Prototype)
Partnering with a community garden can lead to new opportunities to connect with nature and people, to nurture others and oneself, to live!
Re-imagine an Intimate, Personal & Affordable EOL Experience for You & Your Loved Ones - Die@Home, Celebrate@Home, & Go Green@Burial (04/17)
To insure EOL peace, comfort & safety ~ HDCR will provide the who, what, when, where, why & how of the Home Death Care process to all.
The Living Fully Guide: Honoring What Matters Most at the End-of-Life. [Update 8-2, title, body, project needs. 8-3 Descri. 8-4 pilot ]
Community members would live more fully by having access to a local-centric EoL planning guide and provider list.
Mortality Coach
Use coaching that is anchored in awareness of our mortality to live each day well, so death can be okay for individuals and loved ones.
"Get to Know Me" 2.0: digitally personalizing the ICU experience for patients, families, and providers (updated 8/1)
A tablet-based display allowing families to share -- and ICU providers to learn -- longitudinally, who the patient is as a person.
A wearable emotion "clock" to express feelings to forge connection & intimacy, and eliminate misunderstanding.
Sharing emotions is a way to connect people to one another, this idea uses a wearable device to show, express, share, & connect via emotions
How does one humanize a body bag?
This product would humanize transport of the deceased, by placing the body in a custom "death garment" that honors rather than dehumanizes.
LEAVE-A-WISH: Cherish and honor your loved ones - even after they have passed on (Updated 8/5/16- Hifi mocks)
Death doesn't have to signal the end of meaningful connection; connection can be found and nurtured by honoring our loved ones "wishes."
A web-based matchmaking application for connection and support in the dying process
A program designed to connect a dying individual or his/her loved one with a connection to someone who can provide support and guidance
"My Last Sound": What is the last sound you wish to hear at the end of your life?
Help humanize patient experience, one soundscape at a time
mind, body, space.
A new type of hospital space that doesn't look to replicate the home but better transitions the individual and family for change.
When I die, I wanna be ... (Update: Website Feedback Session 08/07)
A reflection and information sharing platform to encourage people to think about their mortality and educate them about end-of-life methods
