Dignified Life & Death Fellowship
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My name is Caroline Walker and I have been awarded the Keegan Traveling Fellowship for the year of 2015-2016: “The Michael B. Keegan Fellowship enhances the development of future leaders through world travel and experiential learning. The program is designed to allow a graduating senior the opportunity to pursue an idea or an issue, about which the student is impassioned, and to do so in the context of daily life in a global scenario.” (http://www.vanderbilt.edu/travelfellowship/) This fellowship is carried out through the student traveling to various countries around the world for an entire year, immersing herself in the subject matter and creating a project around that subject and part of this Fellowship is a small stipend.
The subject about which I am impassioned is End of Life care and the title of my project is: Dignified Life and Death: A Global Approach to End of Life Decisions and Care.
In order to carry out this project, I hope to spend time shadowing, observing and interviewing patients, families and health care professionals in various end of life care settings. My guiding questions for this fellowship are as follows: how do various cultures around the globe view death as well as a person’s dignity at the end of life and what are the features that make them similar and different? And my overarching goals are as follows:
1. Investigate how different cultures view and define death from the perspective of patients, families and healthcare professionals and further how age, healthcare setting and faith values effect this perception.
2. Evaluate the unique aspects of each culture as well as those which are similar to others and look for underlying shared values.
3. Serve each community in which I am engaged in the clinical setting as a volunteer in order to immerse myself further in the culture as well as give back to these communities.
Because the stipend for this Fellowship is fairly limited, I am creating this go fund me account to humbly ask for some financial support as I embark on this endeavor even if it is only $1. The moneys will go directly to my living and travel arrangements so that I might conduct my project as thoroughly and broadly as possible.
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Best,
Caroline Walker
My name is Caroline Walker and I have been awarded the Keegan Traveling Fellowship for the year of 2015-2016: “The Michael B. Keegan Fellowship enhances the development of future leaders through world travel and experiential learning. The program is designed to allow a graduating senior the opportunity to pursue an idea or an issue, about which the student is impassioned, and to do so in the context of daily life in a global scenario.” (http://www.vanderbilt.edu/travelfellowship/) This fellowship is carried out through the student traveling to various countries around the world for an entire year, immersing herself in the subject matter and creating a project around that subject and part of this Fellowship is a small stipend.
The subject about which I am impassioned is End of Life care and the title of my project is: Dignified Life and Death: A Global Approach to End of Life Decisions and Care.
In order to carry out this project, I hope to spend time shadowing, observing and interviewing patients, families and health care professionals in various end of life care settings. My guiding questions for this fellowship are as follows: how do various cultures around the globe view death as well as a person’s dignity at the end of life and what are the features that make them similar and different? And my overarching goals are as follows:
1. Investigate how different cultures view and define death from the perspective of patients, families and healthcare professionals and further how age, healthcare setting and faith values effect this perception.
2. Evaluate the unique aspects of each culture as well as those which are similar to others and look for underlying shared values.
3. Serve each community in which I am engaged in the clinical setting as a volunteer in order to immerse myself further in the culture as well as give back to these communities.
Because the stipend for this Fellowship is fairly limited, I am creating this go fund me account to humbly ask for some financial support as I embark on this endeavor even if it is only $1. The moneys will go directly to my living and travel arrangements so that I might conduct my project as thoroughly and broadly as possible.
cccwalk27.wix.com/of-infinite-worth
Best,
Caroline Walker
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Caroline Walker
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Pittsburgh, PA