Events

Hospice Foundation of America's 16th Annual
National Bereavement Teleconference Diversity and End-of-Life Care

The Hospice Foundation of America's teleconference program will focus on ways of understanding diversity and how cultural histories, traditions and beliefs can affect end of life care. At the conclusion of the teleconference, participants will be able to: define diversity and discuss sources of diversity such as ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, religion, and disability; describe the ways that cultural diversity can both complicate and facilitate end-of-life experiences, including grief and adaptation to loss; discuss the knowledge, sensitivities, and skills necessary to work with culturally-diverse populations in end-of-life care; assess the challenges hospice and palliative care present for culturally diverse groups; and describe effective strategies and programs to work with end-of-life issues with culturally diverse populations. ICEOL Director, Dr Richard Payne, will be a panelist presenting at this year's teleconference.

For more information, please contact Phil Corrigan at 919-660-3586.