HFA's E-Newsletter - August 2012

Volume 12, Issue 8

In this issue:

Dear E-News Subscriber
Focus on: New Grief Webinar Series
New Perspectives on ANH
What's New @ HFA's Hospice and Caregiving Blog

Dear E-News Subscriber:

We're very excited to begin our new five-part webinar series on grief with Ken Doka, PhD, MDiv. On Tuesday, August 21, Ken and Terry Martin will discuss their groundbreaking work in a webinar focusing on Beyond Gender: Understanding the Ways Men and Women Grieve. Check out our other programs below, and tune in to these webinars for an inexpensive and easy way to bring great educational opportunities to your staff.

Registration continues for our upcoming New Perspectives program focusing on Artificial Nutrition and Hydration at the End of Life. In this fall program, available on DVD on October 3, we feature a discussion by a panel of experts, as well as real-life stories. Please see below for some short excerpts from three featured interviews.

Amy Tucci, President and CEO

Focus on: New Grief Webinar Series

Beyond Gender: Understanding the Ways Men and Women Grieve will take place live online on Tuesday, August 21 from noon-1:30pm ET. The discussion will challenge professionals to move beyond affect to explore the many ways that individuals cope with loss, and offer specific interventive strategies that are effective with different patterns of grief. Panelists will be Dr. Kenneth Doka, PhD, MDiv, and Dr. Terry Martin, PhD. Dr. Doka and Dr. Martin co-authored Men Don't Cry...Women Do: Transcending Gender Stereotypes of Grief in 2000, followed by a revised edition, Grieving Beyond Gender: Understanding the Ways Men and Women Mourn, in 2010.

Other program topics in the series include:

Anticipatory Mourning: What We Know, How We Can Help with Charles Corr, PhD
The Death of an Adult Child: Helping Families Cope with Patricia Loder
Helping Children Cope with Their Own Dying or with the Death of a Loved Onewith Sherry Schachter, PhD, FT
Death of a Spouse or Partner: Current Research, New Strategies with Dale Lund, PhD

HFA webinars are a convenient way to bring the knowledge and expertise of these renowned experts directly to your staff and professional community. Registration includes the live program, access online for a full year, and unlimited CEs for a wide range of professionals. Purchase the series before Tuesday's program for a discounted price.

Registration is available for both organizations (for unlimited participant viewing and CEs) and individuals (limited to one individual and CE only). The cost is $35 per program for individuals, or $85 per program for organizations, but purchase the webinar series and save. The full series can be purchased at a discounted price: $375 for organizations or $150 for individuals.

Register today.

New Perspectives on Artificial Nutrition and Hydration

ANH

Artificial nutrition and hydration (ANH) can be a contentious issue in hospice, palliative care, and long-term care and has been identified as one of the most common ethical dilemmas to arise in end-of-life care. Our New Perspectives experts will discuss the complexities of ANH, its benefits and its burdens. In addition, they will address, and take questions from, program participants about the need for good communication with families, patients, and staff who may not always grasp the clinical, ethical, legal, cultural and spiritual considerations of this medical treatment.

The program will also include interviews from experts and family members. Joan Teno, MD, discusses her cutting edge research around ANH and advanced dementia; a daughter speaks of the emotional toll of ANH-related decisions, and a 38-year-old ALS patient discusses what ANH does for her at this stage of her condition. To hear these interviews in their entirety, and to find out how the expert panel reacts to them, as well as to hear the panel's discussion of other important issues such as medical considerations, ethics, religion, the law, communication, and family dynamics, register here.

We are especially pleased to be joined by experts whose work bridges this critical gap between research and practice:

Terry Altilio, LCSW, ACSW, Social Work Coordinator in the Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care at New York's Beth Israel Medical Center.
Kenneth J. Doka, PhD, MDiv, Professor of Gerontology at the Graduate School of The College of New Rochelle and Senior Consultant to the Hospice Foundation of America.
Rabbi Gary S. Fink, DMin, MAHL, Director of Spiritual Care at Montgomery Hospice, Rockville, Maryland.
Thomas E. Finucane, MD, Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) School of Medicine and the JHU Bioethics Institute, and part of JHU'S Core Faculty of the Biology of Healthy Aging Program.
JoAnne Reifsnyder, PhD, APRN, Chief Nursing Officer for Genesis HealthCare and President of the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association Board of Directors.

ANH Panel

The program will be moderated again by Frank Sesno, Director of the School of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University.

The program will be available on DVD on October 3, but register now to take advantage of the planning and support resources that HFA offers.

What’s New @ HFA’s Hospice and Caregiving Blog

HFA’s Hospice and Caregiving Blog gathers and disseminates information useful to professionals and consumers from a single destination. Our goals are to inform, offer support, and generate online comments about important end-of life issues. Read some of the blog’s most recent postings:

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This newsletter is published by Hospice Foundation of America
Amy Tucci, President and CEO
http://www.hospicefoundation.org
© Hospice Foundation of America 2012

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