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Memorial Home Services offers telehealth monitoring, an automated device placed in
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News: Memorial Home Services Hospice to Host Living with Grief Teleconference
Memorial Home Services Hospice to Host Living with Grief Teleconference
March 4, 2008
Each year the Hospice Foundation of America (HFA) presents a nationally recognized distance-learning program, live via satellite and Web cast, to more than 125,000 people in 2,000 communities.
For the past 15 years, this annual educational program has been instrumental in educating health care professionals and families on issues affecting end-of-life care. The program provides an opportunity for a wide variety of professionals, including doctors, nurses, funeral directors, psychologists, educators, social workers and bereavement counselors - to share and exchange ideas and obtain continuing education credits.
This year HFA’s 15th Annual National Bereavement Teleconference, which focuses on “Children and Adolescents,” will be available Wednesday, April 16, in Springfield Conference Room B 149. The teleconference will focus on the experience of grieving children and adolescents and the ways that all hospice professionals, educators and counselors, parents, social workers, physicians, grief counselors, funeral directors, and clergy can best support these populations as they cope with loss and grief. Moderated by Frank Sesno, Professor of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University and Special Correspondent with CNN, the program will be broadcast April 16, from 12:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. A Q&A session will follow until 3:30 p.m.
Mr. Sesno will lead the panel of noted authorities that includes: Kenneth J. Doka, PhD, MDiv from The College of New Rochelle, Nancy Hogan, PhD, RN, FAAN from Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing, Rita Milburn-Dobson, MA, RNC, FT from Precious Gems Supportive Services, Laura E. Olague, MEd, CT from Children’s Grief Center, Stacy F. Orloff, EdD LCSW from The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast, and J. William Worden, PhD, ABPP from Harvard Childhood Bereavement Study.
This distinguished panel of ethicists, educators and hospice experts will focus on the experience of grieving children and adolescents and the ways that all hospice professionals and others can best support these populations as they cope with loss and grief. Each year this award-winning, televised broadcast is seen in more than 2,000 communities across North America, reaching an estimated live audience of 150,000 people. The broadcast is sponsored in part by a grant from the Foundation for End-of-Life Care, and produced in cooperation with the Adventist Communications Network, the Association for Death Education and Counseling, the National Association of Social Workers, the Department of Veterans Affairs Employee Education System, and The Compassionate Friends.
Space is limited! For more information, call Bitsy Knepler, bereavement coordinator, Memorial Home Services Hospice, at (217) 757–7677.
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