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Hospice Foundation of America Wins FREDDIE Award
Washington (September 19) – Hospice Foundation of America’s 2004 program, Living With Grief®: Alzheimer’s Disease, won the 2005 Health & Medical Media Award in the competition’s Alzheimer’s & Dementia category. This year marked the 31st year of competition for the prestigious International Health & Medical Media Awards, also known as the FREDDIE Awards.
The awards program, sponsored by medical publisher MediMedia, is open to organizations producing videos, films, DVDs, CD-ROMs, and Web sites addressing health and medical issues for both consumers and health care professionals.
HFA’s 11th Annual National Bereavement Teleconference, moderated by Cokie Roberts of ABC News, features a multidisciplinary panel of experts who discuss what is known medically about the diagnosis, progression, and treatment of Alzheimer’s.
The program also:
- explores some innovative programs for patients and caregivers coping with Alzheimer’s;
- focuses on the particular grief issues that patients and families face during the course of this illness; and
- examines the challenges and opportunities that Alzheimer’s disease presents to clinicians, caregivers, hospice workers, and policy advocates.
Living With Grief®: Alzheimer’s Disease offers insight and practical advice to all who are involved in the care of patients with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. This program is available both in VHS or DVD in its entire 2 ½-hour length or in an edited one-hour version.
Winning this prestigious award in the healthcare industry is comparable to winning the motion picture industry's Academy Award (Oscar).
Hospice Foundation of America’s 2003 program, Living With Grief: Coping With Public Tragedy and its Web site, www.hospicefoundation.org, were also honored as finalists in the respective Coping and Web site categories. Finalists in the competition included CNN Productions, Home Box Office, and WebMD Health.
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