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Advancing Online Spiritual Care: A Three-Phase Study with Chaplains on Co-Designing New Models of Delivery

This work is being presented as a poster presentation at the Annual Assembly of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) in San Diego, CA (March 4-6, 2026). This research was generously funded by Grant #62930 from the John Templeton Foundation, "Expanding Models of Delivery for Online Spiritual Care" (August 2023-July 2026). This blog post includes an …

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CaringBridge and the Science of Spiritual Support: Lessons from Professor Estelle Smith’s Research with CaringBridge Since 2016

Thinking about taking this survey (10-15 min.) about online spiritual care communities? Here’s some of the history that has inspired this research! Way back in 2016, Estelle Smith was a brand new Computer Science PhD student at the University of Minnesota. Coincidentally, that was the same time period when a new scientific collaboration team was …

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