There are over 1 million elderly and sick people in Israel– alone, facing terror, fear and uncertainty.
We owe these people support and reassurance in these terrifying times.
We at Life’s Door have mobilized our “Hope Responder Volunteer Initiative” to reach out to EVERY person in need.
We are working in collaboration with leading social service organizations in the south and across Israel.
The “Hope Responders Volunteer Initiative” of Life’s Door recruits, trains and connects volunteers to make outreach phone calls to seniors in need. The trained volunteers work under the supervision of professional staff to assess immediate needs as well as to offer reassurance, support and hope.
We have added 90 volunteers this past week and aim to add 150 more in the coming weeks.
Currently, the social service systems are crashing from overload. We are here to meet this need.
What you can do:
1) Volunteer- If you speak Hebrew, Russian, French, Spanish or Amharic- Join our Hope Responders training
2) Donate so that we can fund the staffing needed to continue this critical initiative throughout these terrifying days of war
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In May, 2021 Dr. Ben Corn was Honored With ASCO Humanitarian Award for Decades-Long Quest to Integrate Hopefulness Into Cancer Care
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“The science of hope”
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Just In Time For The Holidays: The Innovation Of Hope” FORBES November 2020 |
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n 2011, the Honorable Shimon Peres selected our chairman, Professor Ben Corn, to receive the Presidential Citation for Volunteerism in recognition of profound impact on improved quality of life for patients and their families.
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Subsequently, in 2018, Professor Corn received the Sylvan Adams Builders of Zion Award for Medicine and Science at a ceremony at the Knesset. |
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In October, 2020 Life’s Door was recognized by the Ministry of Immigration and Absorption with Prof. Corn being selected as one of 5 exemplary “Olim” for the organization’s impact on health and wellbeing in Israeli society. |
You have insured your future, planned for education, secured your material assets health care.
Have you insured your future quality of life?
Have you given thought to the values that give your life meaning?
Have you considered how health care decision-making might impact on how you live?
Health care decisions are often complex and frightening. But these decisions will likely effect how you will live your life till the very last day. Others may need to make these decisions on your behalf. Have you discussed your wishes about health care decisions with the people closest to you? If not, you may be forfeiting the opportunity to choose the care you will be given.
The Conversation Project (TCP) is a caring, and life-enriching process, which guides you in clarifying important issues around the complex areas of health care decision-making. Often, challenges arise when it is “too late” to make your wishes known …This tragedy can be avoided.
Life’s Door, in collaboration with The Conversation Project* in the United States offers a supportive experience to explore critical health care choices. TCP breaks the barrier of silence that interferes with providing value-based caring for you as your health needs may change.
Do not wait to have THE MOST IMPORTANT CONVERSATION OF YOUR LIFE. Do it for yourself… do it for your loved ones. Do it today! Have The Conversation…and invite others to join.
*Life’s Door is proud to have been selected as the first organization to launch The Conversation Project outside of the USA
To complete your advanced medical directives in the USA click here
Hopetimize ® is our new, dynamic, digital hope enhancement platform that is positioned to transform the way people around the world confront life’s challenges, aging and illness.
Rigorous research is investigating the impact of our personalized, cost-effective, interactive tool to determine quality of life, longevity, and compassionate care. Hopetimize ® offers the physician, the patient, and the caregiver effective health care management and decision making.
Hopetimize ® is continuously being validated by leading international health care and scientific forums, and it is already impacting tens of thousands of patients and professionals.
Our Hopetimize platform is rooted in “hope theory” as posited by Professor Rick Snyder from the University of Kansas, who portrayed hope as a goal-oriented cognitive construct with affective and behavioral implications.
Within this framework, hope is predicated on three components: establishment of plausible goals, creation of pathways to reach those goals, and motivation to set out on such a journey.
For the first time, thanks to the efforts of Life’s Door, Snyder’s paradigm is being comprehensively applied to the holistic care of patients, elderly citizens and their families. In doing so, Life’s Door programs galvanize patients to be more motivated to implement wise lifestyle changes, to keep up with their treatment and well-being regime, and to achieve proactive QOL goals.
We are presently transferring our hope enhancement intervention to a completely digital platform, and are about to launch an innovative approach that will transform the way people around the world confront and experience aging, illness, and end of life.
We have called this initiative “ Hopetimize ® ”.
Hopetimize ® is a word-contraction that implies harnessing the many merits of realistic hope to optimize life.
The Hopetimize program is being offered to health-care providers, care-givers, and volunteers in an effort to modulate hopefulness. We have observed that our tool minimizes staff burnout, and improves QOL for participants trained in “hope enhancement”. We are also exploring the potential for the Hopetimize platform to improve adherence to treatment interventions.
As we stand at the dawn of this hope-enhancement breakthrough, we are excited to build on collaborative partnerships to further research the potentially transformative impact of the Hopetimize® intervention, and its positive effects.
We have observed that Hopetimize ® minimizes staff burnout, and improves quality of life for participants trained in “hope enhancement”. It galvanizes the members of any type of organization to be more motivated, to implement wise lifestyle changes, and to achieve proactive goals.
We invite collaborative partnerships in which we share our unique, transformative hope-enhancement knowledge and experience, and the use of our Hopetimize® digital technology.
We will tailor-make our Hopetimize ® introductory and training package to meet your goals and requirements, and to cater for your unique organizational values, expectations, and practices.
Please take a look below at our menu of products and services, and contact us to explore the benefits that Hopetimize ® could offer your team.
Hopetimize ® Professionals Training Program
We are offering a range of lectures, seminars, workshops, and certifications to the health care, community, commercial, and educational sectors, to empower your professionals and volunteers to have greater impact through our hope optimization approach.
LEVEL 1
Customized Hopetimize ® Keynote Lecture- zoom or live
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Hopetimize ® Introductory Workshop
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Hopetimize ® Motivational Experience
LEVEL 2
Hopetimize ® Workshop for Professionals
LEVEL 3
Certified Hopetimize ® Facilitator Training
Hopetimize ® Your Organization
A holistic, transformative initiative to integrate Hopetimize ® theory, language, methodology, tools, and practice into the core of your organizational culture.
LEVEL 1
Customized inspirational Introductory Hopetimize ® Lecture- Zoom or live
LEVEL 2
Hopetimize ™ Your Community
Enhance and upgrade the function, culture, and advancement of your community’s individual and collective identity with our Hopetimize ® mutual enrichment program.
LEVEL 1
Customized inspirational introductory Hopetimize ® Lecture- Zoom or live
LEVEL 2
Series of customized Hopetimize ® training seminars for professional personnel.
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Series of customized of “Hopetimize ® Your Life” workshops for lay members.
Please email hopetimize@lifesdoor.org
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The Hope Enhancement Project offers a new model for living.
Patients and their families are often stressed, and may be filled with despair and fear. Health care professionals and caregivers who support people with illness and throughout aging, experience burnout and compassion fatigue.
The Hope Enhancement Project is an innovative and practical tool to set attainable goals. Users are able to harness inner strength to face obstacles presented by the life challenges of illness and aging – thereby fostering hopefulness and improving quality of life.
The Hope Enhancement Project: Opening a new, and hope-filled, horizon throughout the journey of illness and toward life’s end.
This program is supported by the Naomi Foundation the Albert and Yetta Lupine Foundation and other generous donors.
Training facilitators from the Bedouin community in the Hope Enhancement tool in order to support and empower women with low socioeconomic background in the Bedouin community. In collaboration with Ajik organization in the Negev.
The generous support of the DEAR Foundation has made this happen.
You have insured your future, planned for education, secured your material assets health care.
Have you insured your future quality of life?
Have you given thought to the values that give your life meaning?
Have you considered how health care decision-making might impact on how you live?
Health care decisions are often complex and frightening. But these decisions will likely effect how you will live your life till the very last day. Others may need to make these decisions on your behalf. Have you discussed your wishes about health care decisions with the people closest to you? If not, you may be forfeiting the opportunity to choose the care you will be given.
The Conversation Project (TCP) is a caring, and life-enriching process, which guides you in clarifying important issues around the complex areas of health care decision-making. Often, challenges arise when it is “too late” to make your wishes known… This tragedy can be avoided.
Life’s Door , in collaboration with The Conversation Project * in the United States offers a supportive experience to explore critical health care choices. TCP breaks the barrier of silence that interferes with providing value-based caring for you as your health needs may change.
Do not wait to have THE MOST IMPORTANT CONVERSATION OF YOUR LIFE . Do it for yourself… do it for your loved ones. Do it today! Have The Conversation… and invite others to join.
* Life’s Door is proud to have been selected as the first organization to launch The Conversation Project outside of the USA
TO DOWNLOAD THE CONVERSATION PROJECT KIT CLICK HERE
TO COMPLETE YOUR ADVANCED MEDICAL DIRECTIVES IN THE USA CLICK HERE
TO SIGN ON A MEDICAL POWER OF ATTORNEY IS ISRAEL CLICK HERE
Advancing compassionate caring for patients, families and healthcare professionals in geriatric and hospital settings. State of the art tools and skill building in Hope Enhancement combat compassion fatigue and improve quality of care.
This initiative is generously supported by The Dalia & Eli Horowitz Foundation, The Ted Arison Foundation and Friends of Poriah.
A training intervention process which provides healthcare professionals in medical and geriatric centers with practical tools for implementation to improve “Patient centered care”. The program incorporates tools for communication, self-awareness and self-care for enhanced coping with the clinical challenges healthcare teams face on a daily basis.
Active sites: Hadassah Mount Scopus, Shamir-Assaf Harofeh Medical Center, Barzilai Medical Center, Neot Haifa Geriatric Center, Nesher Medical-Geriatric Center, Amal Geriatric Center-Tiberius, Kiryat Menachem Geriatric Center-Jerusalem, Bet Hamarpeh Geriatric Center-Gedera.
This project is generously supported by Teva Pharmaceuticals, UJA Foundation of NY, Migdal Insurance, Horowitz Family Foundation, Rochlin Foundation.
The Pamm Gross Kahane Healthcare Research Institute (PGKHRI)
studies human suffering and loss, and formally documents how best to address these human conditions.
Life’s Door’s goal is to affect behaviors in medical practice that facilitate hope, meaning and resilience for patients, their families, and healthcare professionals. The Institute seeks to offer compelling, innovative solutions.
PGKHRI honors the memory and legacy of Pamm Gross Kahane and her approach to life and to illness – which she displayed and shared in her professional role as a nurse, and as a volunteer who supported patients and families within the Life’s Door community
PGKHRI Values:
Enhancing Compassion and Hope, Commitment to Excellence, Partnership and Collaboration, Integrity and Transparency .
PGKHRI shares information and insights, provides leadership, and works in collaboration on multiple initiatives. These relationships allow the PGKHRI to gather “big data” and my knowledge to develop state of the art models and measure their effectiveness.
In an effort to foster this global collaborative, Life’s Door has convened global leaders and thinkers in health care, education, science, community, philanthropy and private industry, and we have created our international Scientific Advisory Board.
Life’s Door’s distinguished international Scientific Advisory Board represents leading organizations, and is working in collaboration with:
Tel Aviv University, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins University, Duke University, MD Anderson, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) groups of NRG, and The Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG).
It has been immersed in the rigorous study of the science of hope, and its role as a mediator in wellbeing and health care improvement.
With access to world-leading technology, a proven aptitude to develop solutions, and our long standing collaborations with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) groups of NRG and The Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG), we are about to launch an innovation to transform the way people around the world confront and experience illness.
