Hospice Foundation of America
E-Newsletter
Volume 5, Issue 8
August 2005
http://www.hospicefoundation.org
In this issue:
- Message from David Abrams, President
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Date Set for
Thirteenth Annual National Bereavement
Teleconference
Message from David Abrams, President
We usually take a hiatus with this e-newsletter during August, but wanted to give you some brief updates on the teleconference. Please watch your e-mailbox for the September issue, which will arrive on Wednesday, September 14.
Date Set for Thirteenth
Annual National Bereavement
Teleconference
HFA’s 13th Annual National Bereavement Teleconference will focus on "Pain Management at the End of Life: Bridging the Gap Between Knowledge and Practice." The live-via-satellite program will be broadcast Wednesday, April 5, 2006 from 1:30pm to 4:00pm EDT.
HFA's 2006 teleconference will examine the gap between knowledge and application of effective pain control in the person with a terminal condition, including pharmaceutical, psycho-social, spiritual, and complementary aspects of pain management. The program will highlight cutting-edge knowledge and methodology in an attempt to bring the hospice approach to palliative care and to a broad clinical audience. The program will look at laws and regulations that hinder the practice of pain management. Discussions will examine ways in which health care workers and the general public can work together to improve the societal approach to pain management. These subjects and other interesting issues will be brought to the audience by some of the leading researchers and practitioners currently working in pain management.
The teleconference is seen each year by more than 100,000 people in over 2,000 communities in the U.S. and Canada. If you work with other organizations at the local or national level that would be interested in this year’s topic, please pass along information about the teleconference to them. If you belong to any professional associations whose members would benefit from knowing about the program, please contact us at telecon@hospicefoundation.org and we would be happy to share information with them.
Registration for organizations hosting the teleconference will begin in late September; more information and an online registration form will be available at that time. Please watch the Site Coordinator's Corner of this e-newsletter for updates.
This newsletter is sent to more than 6,550 subscribers on 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. We encourage you to forward this e-newsletter to an interested colleague or friend. To subscribe, go to HFA's E-Newsletter sign-up page.
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This newsletter is published by Hospice Foundation of America
Jack D. Gordon, Chairman
David Abrams, President
http://www.hospicefoundation.org
Board of Directors: Thomas E. Bryant, MD, JD; Myra MacPherson; Priscilla Perry;
Patricia Spulak; Thomas Spulak
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