Hospice Foundation of America's E-Newsletter
The HFA newsletter will be sent the 2nd Wednesday of every month to keep you informed of what is happening in the fields of hospice, grief and bereavement, and caregiving, as well as what's new at HFA. Look for expanded coverage of topics and links in the coming months.
Read Past Issues
February 2008 - Focus On: Teleconference Partners and Friends
January 2008 - Focus On: Communicating with Families about Death and Grief
December 2007 - Focus On: Planning for Living With Grief: Children and Adolescents
November 2007 - Focus On: Interview with Margaret Clausen, California Hospice and Palliative Care Association
October 2007 - Focus On: Hospice and Caregiving Blog
September 2007 - Focus On: 15th Annual National Bereavement Teleconference
July 2007 - Focus On: International Work Group on Death, Dying and Bereavement
June 2007 - Focus On: HFA's National Bereavement Teleconference
May 2007 - Focus On: Community Support in Public Tragedy
April 2007 - Focus On:
2008 HFA
National Bereavement Teleconference Living With Grief: Children and
Adolescents
March 2007 - Focus On: HFA Sponsors and
Partners
February 2007 - Focus On: Interview with
George Kelder, New Jersey Funeral Service Education
Corporation
January 2007 - Focus On: Interview with Ken
Doka on Living With Grief®
Book Series
December 2006 - Focus On: Planning for HFA’s 14th Annual National Bereavement
Teleconference: Living With Grief®:
Before and After the Death
November 2006 - Focus On: Holiday Bereavement
Support Programs
October 2006 - Focus On: Grief and the Holidays
September 2006 - Focus On: Interview with Robin Fiorelli, VITAS Healthcare Corporation
July 2006 - Focus On: Concerns and Issues in
Grief and Bereavement
June 2006 - Focus On: An Interview with Kenneth
Doka
May 2006 - Focus On: 2007 National Bereavement
Teleconference
April 2006 - Focus On: HFA's Educational
Programs
March 2006 - Focus On: A
Discussion with Pamela Bennett and Dr. Lisa Miller
February 2006 - Focus On: An
Interview with Yvette Colón, American Pain Foundation
January 2006 - Focus On: Honoring Jack D.
Gordon
December 2005 - Focus On: Interview with Jack
D. Gordon, Hospice Foundation of America
November 2005 - Focus On: Holidays and Grief
October 2005 - Focus On: Pain Management at the
End of Life
September 2005 - Focus On: Response to the Crisis
of Hurricane Katrina
August 2005 - Date Set for Thirteenth
Annual National Bereavement
Teleconference
July 2005 - Focus On: Ongoing
Discussion on Making Decisions at End-of-Life
June 2005 - Focus On: Children, Adolescents and
Bereavement
May 2005 - Focus On: Pain at the End of Life:
Bridging the Gap Between Knowledge and Practice
April 2005 - Focus On: Ethical Dilemmas at the End
of Life
March 2005 - Focus On: A
Discussion with Richard Fife, Chair, Corporate Ethics
Committee, VITAS
Healthcare Corp.
February 2005 - Focus On: HFA Sponsors and
Partners
January 2005 - Focus On: Planning for "Ethical
Dilemmas at the End of Life"
December 2004 - Focus on: HFA's Consumer
Initiatives
November 2004 - Focus on: Holidays and Grief
October 2004 - Living With Grief: Ethical Dilemmas
at the End of Life
September 2004 - Interview with Ken Doka
August 2004 - Date
Set for Twelfth Annual National Bereavement Teleconference
July 2004 - Focus On: Resources for Family Caregivers
June 2004 - Focus On: ONEgeneration
May 2004 - Focus on:
Ethics and End-of-Life Care
April 2004 - Focus
on: HFA's National Bereavement Teleconference
March 2004 - Focus on: A
Discussion with Dr. Kathleen Foley
February 2004 - Focus on: HFA
Supporters and Partners
January 2004 - Focus on:
Planning
for "Living With Grief: Alzheimer's Disease"
December 2003 - Focus on: Interview
with Bill Colby
November 2003 - Focus
on: Holidays and Grief
October 2003 - Focus On:
Living
With Grief: Alzheimer's Disease
September 2003 - Focus on:
A Discussion with Dr. Earl Grollman
August 2003 - Eleventh
Annual Teleconference Announcement
July 2003 - Focus on:
Increasing Access to Hospice Care
June 2003 - Focus On: Loss and the
Arts
May 2003 - Focus On: Alzheimer's Disease and Loss
April 2003 - Focus On: HFA's Tenth Annual National Bereavement Teleconference
March 2003 - Focus On: HFA
Supporters and Partners
February 2003 - Focus On: Public
Tragedy
January 2003 - Focus On: Communicating
end-of-life choices
December 2002 - Focus On: Report on dying in America
November 2002 - Focus On: Holidays and
grief
October 2002 - Focus On: Hospice and long term care facilities
September 2002 - Focus On: Anniversary of 9/11; Interview with Cokie
Roberts
August 2002 - Focus On: Announcing 10th annual teleconference
July 2002 - Focus On: Six month
prognosis for admission
June 2002 - Focus On: Discussion with Dr. Lamers
May 2002 - Focus On: Professional
education opportunities
April 2002 - Focus On: Loss in later
life
March 2002 - Focus On: Opportunities for professional discussion
February 2002 - Focus On: HFA supporters and partners
January 2002 - Focus On: Preparing for
the future
December 2001 - Focus On: Grief in the
workplace
November 2001 - Focus On: Importance of
ritual
October 2001 - Focus On: Helping young people cope
September 2001 - Focus On: Aftermath of
a tragedy
July 2001 - Focus On: Impact of culture on grief
June 2001 - Focus On: Support from those living with grief
May 2001 - Focus On: Creative therapies and grief
April 2001 - Focus On: Caregiving and loss
March 2001 - Focus On: Physician education
February 2001
- Focus On: What is hospice
