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2006; Volume 7 , No 12, December

 
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Hospice Palliative Care Meetings

The Second Annual Cicely Saunders Seminar - Dying Well in the 21st Century

Event Location: London, UK
Date Of Event: 15 February 2007

Event Description: This day is intended to open up a discussion on the meaning of death, and on the way in which approaching death is discussed with patient, family and carers. The day will offer varying perspectives on death and its meaning for living from faith and secular backgrounds

Contact Information:
For more details and registration please contact Dafydd Watkins, Education Administrator
Email: education@stchristophers.org.uk
Phone: 020 8768 4656.
Cut off date for registration 19 January 2007
Event Website: http://www.stchristophers.org.uk/css0207

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Multi-Professional Week in Palliative Care

Event Location: London, UK
Date Of Event: 21-25 May 2007

Event Description: This established course provides an opportunity for health and social care professionals from a variety of settings and countries to work together on exploring the key principles of palliative care and multi-professional working.

Contact Information:
For more information, and for an application form, please contact
Dafydd Watkins, Education Administrator
Email: education@stchristophers.org.uk

This course also runs in November 2007

Event Website: http://www.stchristophers.org.uk/MPWeek

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Living with Grief: Before and After the Death

Sponsored By: Hospice Foundation of America

Event Location: Nationwide via satellite and webcast!
Date Of Event: Thursday, March 22, 2007

Event Description: HFA’s 2007 teleconference will explore the most current theoretical perspectives on loss and grief as experienced by persons throughout a life-limiting illness and by survivors after the death. The panel will focus on areas where understandings of grief have been challenged. The program will be useful to a range of professionals who provide bereavement counseling or work with the bereaved. This teleconference is ideal for psychologists, counselors, clergy, social workers, nurses and other health care workers, funeral directors, educators, teachers and school-based personnel. The information will also be helpful to individuals who offer education on loss, grief, dying or death.

Contact Information: You may register online at www.hospicefoundation.org, or you may download and print a registration form to mail to our Washington , DC address.

Hospice Foundation of America
1621 Connecticut Ave, NW
Suite 300
Washington, DC   20009
Tel: (202) 638-5419
Fax: (202) 638-5312
1-800-854-3402

Contact: Kristen Baker
Email: kbaker@hospicefoundation.org

Please be sure to check our website for updates, www.hospicefoundation.org or call 800-854-3402 for more information.

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Current Issues in Palliative Care

Event Location: London, UK
Date Of Event: May 2-3, 2007


Event Description: Current Issues in Palliative Care brings together leading experts in the field to discuss the central issues, practival management and ethical concerns surrounding end of life care.

Contact Information: For further information and to book, please visit www.mahealthcareevents.co.uk

Contact Email:   amy.t@markallengroup.com

Event Website:   http://www.mahealthcareevents.co.uk/cgi-bin/go.pl/conferences/detail.html?conference_uid=16 

 

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