For Professionals
Continuing education and other resources for hospice and bereavement professionals
Utilize our expert-led continuing education courses to help you and your staff achieve personal, professional, and organizational excellence. Explore our vast library of publications, outreach activities, and research opportunities to enhance your practice and bring you closer to the communities you serve. Or invest in your professional development by becoming an HFA member.
Expert-led online courses
Live and on-demand courses, Living with Grief® programs, and Five Wishes ACP courses improve the care you provide.
Books and publications
HFA’s print materials help you advance as a professional and enhance your community outreach.
HFA membership benefits
Join like-minded professionals and receive free access to live and on-demand CE courses and much more.
Anticipatory Grief: Helping Patients and Families Understand and Cope
Learn more about what anticipatory grief is and isn’t, and the research that has led to this important concept. Presenters Dr. Kenneth J. Doka and Dr. Laura Bradbury will discuss how anticipatory grief is often seen in “real-life” scenarios with patients, families, and end-of-life care professionals and share effective clinical interventions to support this specific type of grief.
Registration Options
- Individual: Live and on-demand viewing for one person.
- Organization/company: Live and on-demand viewing for employees within a single location.
- Organization + community license: Live and on-demand viewing for employees and community members at up to 3 locations.
Continuing Education
Professional CE hours included with registration; choose your certificate type below.
Living with Grief® series
HFA’s signature professional development series and books are perfect for staff development. The next installment, Alzheimer’s Disease, Related Dementias, and Hospice is live on April 14, 2026. HFA’s new, comprehensive book, Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia: A Guide for Hospice Clinicians, will be available in March 2026.
Click here to learn about the exceptional care programs that are profiled in the 2025 course, Improving Dying.
From Caregiver to Patient courses
HFA, in partnership with TGBeyond, offers the award-winning documentary A Butterfly Has Been Released and an accompanying professional education program, From Caregiver to Patient: Hospice Nurse Allyson’s Final 39 Days.
Whether you rent the film for personal viewing, are earning CE credits, or starting community conversations, Allyson’s story will change how you see both death and life.
Five Wishes® ACP courses
This comprehensive suite of training courses focuses on advance care planning with humanity and compassion. Courses are designed for those who facilitate advance care planning conversations and for those who deliver community education presentations.
Living with Grief® books
These companion books cover a wide range of topics. Available in print or on Kindle.
Free non-CE programs
Informational programs about hospice and grief for your staff, volunteers, and families.
Featured CE programs
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Food as Ritual in Grief
Price range: $39.95 through $390.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page -
Five Conversations You’ll Navigate in Dementia End-of-Life Care
Price range: $25.95 through $135.00 Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page -
Group Viewing – From Caregiver to Patient: Hospice Nurse Allyson’s Final 39 Days
$250.00
