Making life richer: creating a compassionate community

Vu @ Second Life∗– Creating a (virtual) Community of Learners

In this paper we report on our experiences in creating presence for our university in the Second Life environment. After a brief explanation of our motivation(s), we will describe our approach, which resulted in creating a virtual campus acting both as a portal for information, and, more importantly, as a meeting point, offering the opportunity to create a virtual community of learners, in line...

Creating a Chimpanzee Community **

The following narrative by Robert M. Yerkes of his creation of the famous colony of chimpanzees at Orange Park, Florida, has been extracted by his daughter, Roberta W. Yerkes, from an extensive autobiographical manuscript. Readers of this selective account might think Professor Yerkes a man of one idea. So he was, for from 1916 to the end of his life, a period of 40 years, he thought, planned, ...

Be a better leader, have a richer life.

Work fills most executives' lives to the brim, leaving insufficient time for their families, their communities, and themselves. But Wharton professor Friedman suggests that, rather than view the problem as a set of trade-offs, executives use their leadership talents to benefit all four domains at once. The idea is to design experiments--small, short-term adjustments to their daily routines--tha...

Creating learning environments for compassionate care: a programme to promote compassionate care by health and social care teams.

BACKGROUND The consistent delivery of compassionate health and social care to older people is a matter of global concern to the nursing profession and the public it serves. The development and evaluation of effective interventions to address this concern is of prime importance. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES This paper draws on findings from previous research to propose the use of a novel implementation...

Compassionate care at the end of life.