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American Hospice Foundation offers half-day and full-day workshops for clinicians, school personnel, employee assistance professionals and employers. Costs vary, but start at $1,500 plus travel expenses.
Our standard workshop will address the topics listed below. For a customized workshop, please fill out our Workshop Request form.
Hospice and Palliative Care
- Hospice Care and Palliative Care – What’s the Difference?
- Alzheimer’s Disease and Hospice Care
- Cultural Issues in Hospice
- The Hospice Medicare Benefit: Financial Aspects of Hospice Care
End-of-Life Issues
- End-of-Life Decision-Making
- Ethics of End-of-Life Care
- Prognostication: An Opportunity for Meaningful Dialogue in Medical Care
- Withdrawing or Withholding Artificial Feeding or Hydration
- End-of-Life Issues for People with Alzheimer’s and Other Dementias
Pain and Symptom Management
- Pain Management in End-of-Life Care
- Assessment of Pain in the Cognitively Impaired
- Use of Opioids in Pain Management: Selection and Appropriate Use
- Symptom Management in End-of-Life Care
- Complementary Therapies in End-of-Life Care
Communication
- Delivering Bad News
- Communication with Those Facing the End of Life
- Communicating with Your Family about Your Wishes for End-of-Life Care
Veterans
- Special Needs of Veterans at the End of Life
- Successful Suffering: What Veterans Can Teach Us
- Wounded Warriors: Their Last Battle
Working through Grief
- The Writing to Recover Concept: What's Behind it and Why Does it Work?
Grief at Work
- The Many Faces of Grief in the Workplace
- Coping with Grief in Healthcare Settings
- Normal vs. Complicated Grief of Employees
- Caring for the Family Caregivers in the Workplace
- Compassion Fatigue in the Workplace
- Humor and Grief in the Workplace
Grief at School
- Identifying and Helping Grieving Students
- Suicide: Effects on Students, and School Staff
- Cultural Differences in Grief and Mourning
- Grief and Substance Abuse
- Parenting a Grieving Child
Contact us to schedule a workshop or to request additional information.
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