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ABOUT GOOD ENDINGS®

Good Endings® is an innovative educational program on caring for the dying. No health care facility should be without this intense, compassionate approach to end-of-life care.

GOOD ENDINGS® will:

Provide your facilities with materials to educate your staff and caregivers regarding death & dying issues

• Assist you in developing your own GOOD ENDINGS® program
• Provide steps on how to recruit, train and facilitate Vigil Teams
• Enhance the marketability of your facility by providing this service to the community

GOOD ENDINGS® has been featured in:

Balance Magazine – The Republican Newspaper - Journal of Nurse Assistants – Nursing Homes Magazine – Caring For the Ages Magazine – Reminder Publications – Channel 40 TV News – The Register-Star Newspaper – Creative Forecasting Magazine for Activity Professionals – Healthcare News of Western Mass – CNA Today – The Catholic Observer – Healthcare Review- Healthcare Ledger

We carry books, therapeutic music CD’s, and a training video

For more information on GOOD ENDINGS®, see our website at www.goodendings.net

About Dr. Donalyn Gross, PhD., LCSW, CMP, Thanatologist

D. Gross, PhD., LCSW, CMP, Thanatologist, has worked with the terminally ill and their loved ones for over thirty years. She has worked in hospitals, correctional systems, been a hospice volunteer director, has taught college courses in death and dying, and gives workshops on death and dying issues.

Author of various books and booklets on her experience with the dying, she is presently a social worker. Dr. Gross created the Good Endings® program and began the first program at the SunBridge Care and Rehabilitation, of East Longmeadow, Massachusetts. She is currently the Good Endings® program director at Heritage Hall West, Agawam, MA.

"From my 30 years of experience working with the needs of the dying and those responsible for their care, I concluded that there is a need for psychosocial and psychological death education."

A professional musician and Certified Music Practitioner, Dr. Gross sings and plays the harp for the sick and dying at Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA, and Jewish Geriatric Services, Longmeadow, MA.

Her program, Good Endings®, is designed for nursing homes, healthcare agencies, and the education of their professionals and volunteers. It consists of a comprehensive, on-going program headed by a Vigil Team that provides care for actively dying residents and their loved ones.