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CANCER
AND END-OF-LIFE CARE Hospice
Foundation of America17th
Annual Living With Grief Teleconference
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
1:30pm-4:30pm
The Hospice Foundation of America’s 2010 teleconference will address care
options related to cancer diagnoses
as well as loss and grief reactions for patients, families and professional
caregivers. It will also examine psychosocial
aspects of cancer, pain management, and ethical issues related to the
disease
Public Welcome
Adirondack Medical Center, Redfield Room
Route 86, Saranac Lake, NY 12983
For information call Kathy Sauers at: 891-9631 ext 117 or email
kathysauers@highpeakshospice.com
Glens Falls Hospital, Community Room
For information or to register:
Call Erika Walker, Bereavement Coordinator, 518-743-1672
Elizabethtown Community Hospital
For information or to
register: Call Cherie Trudeau, 518-546-9850
or email cherietrudeau@highpeakshospice.com
**Local panelists will address
questions at each location.
CONTINUING EDUCATION AVAILABLE
CEUs are being offered for nurses, social workers, counselors,
case managers, funeral directors, clergy, and physicians. Please verify
CEU availability at your local site and your professional and state
board approval. There is a $25 online processing fee per certificate,
per participant. Online CEU instructions will be provided to you on
March 24.
Agenda is as follows:
Living
with Grief®: Cancer and End-of Life Care
Foreword: Perry Fine
I. The Nature of Cancer
1. Cancer: An Historical and Cultural Perspective (Kenneth J.
Doka)
2. Cancer and the History of Hospice (Stephen Connor)
3. Cancer: An Overview of the Many Diseases (Stuart Farber)
4. Language, Metaphor, and Cancer (Neil Small)
II. Treating Cancer
5. Treatment Options in Cancer (Brad Stuart)
6. Complementary and Alternative Cancer Therapies (Lynda Shand)
7. Ethical Dilemmas in the Treatment of Cancer (Bruce Jennings)
8. The Transition to Palliative Care (Brad Stuart)
9. End-Stage Cancer: The Role of Palliative Care and Hospice (Sherry
Schachter)
III. Psychosocial Aspects of Cancer Care
10. Guilt, Blame, and Confusion: Coping with Cancer Causation
(Noelle LoConte)
11. Cancer in Children and Adolescents: Psycho-Social Dimensions
(Marianne Walsh)
12. Gender Identity and Cancer (Neil Thompson)
13. African Americans and Cancer (Lovell Allan Jones)
IV. Grief and Cancer
14. Anticipatory Mourning and Cancer (Charles Corr)
15. Grief after Cancer Death (Kenneth J. Doka) Conclusion
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