Andrea Sherman
Andrea Sherman, Ph.D., is a gerontologist, educator, trainer and end-of-life doula, and is co-author of Transitional Keys: Rituals to Improve Quality of Life for Older Adults. She is Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, and New York Academy of Medicine, former Curriculum Consultant to the Bronx VA, and National Center for Creative Aging, and teaches Aging for Beginners at Westchester Meditation Center. As an educator her focus is on palliative and end of life care.
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Upcoming Programs by Andrea Sherman
Compassionately Caring: A Community Gathering on End-of-Life and Caregiving
Also With Tsunma Jamyang Donma and Lori Solensten, MS
Join us for an experiential afternoon of insight, reflection, and connection—a nourishing space for caregivers of all kinds to gather, learn, and share. Whether you're supporting a loved one through illness, working in healthcare or hospice, or simply exploring how to care more deeply and wisely in daily life, this gathering offers tools, stories, and […]
Week Six: Noble Living, Noble Caring, Noble Dying: Healing Practices in Buddhism
Also With Tulku Migmar Tsering and Tsunma Jamyang Donma
This final offering of the Samye Institute Summer Immersion: The Buddhist Arts & Sciences gathers the inner and outer sciences explored over the preceding weeks into an extended reflection on what it means to live, care, and die well. Drawing on the medicine teachings of Week Two, the contemplative training of the inner science weeks, […]