Improving Care for Veterans Facing Illness and Death
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Living with Grief®: Improving Care for Veterans Facing Illness and Death is the companion book (ISBN: 978-1-893349-16-2) to the 2013 Living with Grief program and examines the impact that the military experience can have on veterans who are dying or facing grief and loss. (246 pages)
Journeys: Caregiving and Hospice Issue
This special issue of Journeys is a sensitive introduction to caregiving and hospice care. It answers questions such as: How does someone take care of him or herself while caring for a dying loved one? How can a family member or friend find hope after a loved one has entered hospice care? The issue is a helpful supplement to your organization's introductory literature and is also appropriate for family or friends of hospice patients who are experiencing hospice care for the first time. The issue is available as a single issue or in packs of 50 or 100. Organizations such as hospitals, churches and hospices have used Journeys Special Issues to support and inform their community.
Managing Conflict, Finding Meaning - Supporting Families at Life's End
Living with Grief®: Managing Conflict Finding Meaning: Supporting Families at Life’s End is the companion book (ISBN: 978-1-893349-20-9) to the 2016 Living with Grief® program and examines how to better help families cope with the inevitable conflicts that arise during the difficult journey through end-of-life care. Using various case studies and insights from clinicians, professionals, and leading researchers, this book illustrates the challenges surrounding dying and grieving as well as opportunities that may arise from crises.
Aging America: Coping with Loss, Dying and Death in Later Life - Book
America is aging at a rapid rate with 10,000 people in the U.S. turning 65 every day. By 2040, Medicare is expected to include 80 million enrollees. Advanced age can bring a range of losses from a spouse or partner to independence and identity. Along with experiencing multiple losses, older people are more likely to suffer from multiple chronic conditions requiring complex medical care and raising potential ethical issues at the end of life. Aging America: Coping with Loss, Dying, and Death in Later Life, examines ways that mental health professionals, healthcare providers, and the wider community can support the growing number of aging Americans through these losses. Chapters include discussions of the dying experience in later life, including coping with dementia, accessing hospice, suicide, and the reality of institutional care; specific losses such as the death of a spouse or an adult child; and factors that may influence grief, such as diversity and culture.
Before and After the Death
Living with Grief®: Before and After the Death (DVD) features a panel discussion exploring the most current theoretical perspectives on loss and grief as experienced by persons throughout a life-limiting illness and by survivors after the death. The companion book (ISBN: 978-1-893349-08-7) explores similar topics, with a special emphasis on anticipatory grief and mourning, professional self-care, DSM-V classification, disenfranchise grief, and other insights into the field of grief and bereavement.
Exploring Complementary Pain Management Techniques in End-of-Life Care - Self Study
Starting from $25.95
Individuals seek non-pharmacological interventions such as complementary/alternative medicine (CAM) for end-of-life care as an adjunct to conventional medicine to assist in symptom management and improve quality of life. This webinar focuses on the concept of "total pain" and highlights techniques such as aromatherapy and massage, to further support dying patients. Expert Panelist: Michelle Sproat, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, NP-C, JD Moderator: Marian Grant, ACNP-BC, ACHPN, FPCN, RN, Senior Regulatory Advisor for CTAC
Funerals and Beyond - Self Study
Rituals represent one of the oldest and most resilient tools that humans have used to deal with death. Even in Neolithic times, there is evidence of elaborate rituals used to bury the dead. Rituals can be a powerful tool to help children and adolescents deal with loss. This webinar explores the ways that funerals and therapeutic ritual can support grieving youth. Expert Panelists: Pamela Gabbay, EdD, FT, Co-founder and Executive Partner, The Satori Group, LLC and Brad Speaks, CEO, Speaks Family Legacy Chapels
Helping Adolescents Cope with Loss
Starting from $28.95
Living with Grief: Helping Adolescents Cope with Loss, the book (ISBN 9781893349179), focuses on types of loss adolescents may face and ways to assist. Some of the foremost experts in the field share their insights in this 24 chapter volume. Click here to view the free on-demand program (CEs not available).
Starting from $20
Adolescence, broadly defined, from middle school years to emerging adulthood, is a significant developmental period during which adolescents form identity, independence, and intimacy. Illness and loss profoundly influences these processes. Moreover, adolescent encounters with loss are likely to be traumatic – deaths by accident, suicide, and homicide. This program focuses exclusively on the issues that adolescents face as they cope with loss and explores the ways that healthcare workers, hospices, educators, social workers, counselors, clergy, funeral directors, and other professionals can assist adolescents as they cope with loss. Expert Panelists:
Helping Mourners Deal with Jealousy, Guilt & Shame - Self Study
Grieving people may experience surprising and unsettling emotions after a death including jealousy, guilt and shame. This webinar offers interventive strategies to help grieving individuals recognize, validate, and resolve such complicated reactions. Expert Panelists: Ken Doka, PhD, MDiv and Dale Larson, PhD On Demand: to registered individuals for 1 year after purchase Length: 90 minutes CE Hours: 1.5 CEs available for a variety of boards. Board Approvals List. CE Fees: 1 CE certificate is included with purchase
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HFA Membership: For-Profit Non-Hospice Organization
Starting from $625
HFA members are an exclusive group of individuals and organizations who seek continuous improvement and learning through high-quality professional education from leading experts in the field. Becoming a member demonstrates you share this passion, support HFA as a trusted provider of public information and professional education and recognize the benefits of improving care at the bedside and beyond. For-Profit members are for-profit organizations including hospitals, health systems, bereavement support centers, funeral homes, and healthcare vendors (e.g. pharmaceutical distributors, software companies).
HFA Membership: Hospice > 150 ADC
Starting from $375
HFA members are an exclusive group of individuals and organizations who seek continuous improvement and learning through high-quality professional education from leading experts in the field. Becoming a member demonstrates you share this passion, support HFA as a trusted provider of public information and professional education and recognize the benefits of improving care at the bedside and beyond. Hospice ADC ≥150 are hospice organizations with an average daily census equal to or greater than 150 patients.
HFA Membership: Hospice less than 150 ADC
Starting from $275
HFA members are an exclusive group of individuals and organizations who seek continuous improvement and learning through high-quality professional education from leading experts in the field. Becoming a member demonstrates you share this passion, support HFA as a trusted provider of public information and professional education and recognize the benefits of improving care at the bedside and beyond. ADC <150 members are hospice providers with an average daily census of less than 150 patients.
HFA Membership: Individual
Starting from $60
HFA members are an exclusive group of individuals and organizations who seek continuous improvement and learning through high-quality professional education from leading experts in the field. Becoming a member demonstrates you share this passion, support HFA as a trusted provider of public information and professional education and recognize the benefits of improving care at the bedside and beyond. Individual members are those with a professional or personal interest in hospice care and bereavement.
HFA Membership: Non-Hospice Non-Profit
Starting from $385
HFA members are an exclusive group of individuals and organizations who seek continuous improvement and learning through high-quality professional education from leading experts in the field. Becoming a member demonstrates you share this passion, support HFA as a trusted provider of public information and professional education and recognize the benefits of improving care at the bedside and beyond. Non-Hospice Non-Profit Memberships are non-profit organizations to do not provide hospice care.
HFA Membership: Volunteer Hospice
Starting from $150
HFA members are an exclusive group of individuals and organizations who seek continuous improvement and learning through high-quality professional education from leading experts in the field. Becoming a member demonstrates you share this passion, support HFA as a trusted provider of public information and professional education and recognize the benefits of improving care at the bedside and beyond. Volunteer Hospice members are organizations staffed entirely by volunteers.
Improving Care for Veterans Facing Illness and Death is designed to assist end-of-life care provider organizations and health and human service professionals in enhancing their sensitivities and understanding of veterans and to provide professionals with new interventions to better serve dying veterans and their families. Particular attention is placed on veteran generations now aging and most likely to be seen in end-of-life care (WWII, Korean War, Vietnam). In addition to individual interventions, the program will also look organizationally at military benefits and intersections with VA systems. Finally, the program explores the traditions and sensitivities of grieving families and resources that can assist them. Expert Panelists:
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