Learning Objectives

1. Define diversity and discuss sources of diversity such as ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, religion, disability;
2. Describe the ways that cultural diversity both complicate and facilitate end-of-life experiences including grief and adaptation to loss;
3. Discuss the knowledge, sensitivities, and skills necessary to work with culturally-diverse populations in end-of-life care;
4. Assess the challenges hospices and palliative care present for culturally diverse groups including African-Americans, Latinos/Hispanics, and Islamic-Americans; and 
5. Describe effective strategies and programs to work with end-of-life issues with culturally diverse populations including African Americans, Latinos/Hispanic, and Islamic-Americans.