Southern Tier End of Life Coalition

National Healthcare Decisions Day, April 16, 2008

Join Americans across the country in making future healthcare decisions known to family, friends and healthcare providers. Share your wishes and complete your advance directive, because…YOUR DECISIONS MATTER.

Participate in one of the following Southern Tier End of Life Coalition sponsored events. Pick up your button while you're there, and wear it with pride!

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Tune into WBNG-TV at 5:30am for the Broome County Council of Churches “Encounter” program to learn more about the Southern Tier End of Life Coalition, and the LIVE campaign from coalition members Jennifer Benjamin of Action for Older Persons and Jennifer Marshall of Binghamton University.

Sunday, April 13, 2008

Be sure to check your church bulletin or the Lourdes Parish Nurse Newsletter on this weekend for a special insert about advance healthcare planning, and what you should do to prepare for the future.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Advance Planning for End of Life Day
Action for Older Persons
30 W. State St, Binghamton
Walk-ins welcome from 9am til 5pm! Trained volunteers will offer free information about Advance Care Planning, provide free Advance Directive forms and witness the signing of your Advance Directives.

Jennifer Benjamin, the Advance Planning for End of Life Program coordinator will also host Advance Planning Workshops at 10am, 2pm and 5pm.

Call 722-1251 to register for a workshop.

Advance Care Planning Materials for Residents & Community
Bridgewater Nursing and Rehabilitation Facility
Front St, Binghamton
Presented by Mary Vivona

Advance Care Planning Program
Binghamton University
Atrium of Academic Building B
9am to 5pm
Hosted by Maureen Daws, RN, MSN

Advance Care Planning Display & Resources
Stay Healthy
Oakdale Mall, Johnson City
Materials will be available from 7am until 3pm

RESOURCES for
End of Life Care

READINGS

Medical Students Receive Lessons That Will Live On
“Living with a Life-Threatening Illness,” a new course offered at Oregon Health & Science University and the first of its kind on the West Coast provides OHSU medical students a one-on-one match with a patient facing the end of life. In addition to a weekly seminar, the student and patient/teacher meet weekly. This feature article shadows and interviews both a medical student and her patient/teacher. To view the article, published May 21 in the Portland, Oregon newspaper The Oregonian, CLICK HERE.

Care with Compassion
"Care with Compassion,” presents a clear picture of the rapid growth trend and benefits of palliative care programs for hospitals and their C-suite leaders. The article may serve as a useful springboard to help bolster support and strategic placement of palliative care programs. The article was published in the May issue of Trustee Magazine, a periodical of the American Hospital Association. CLICK HERE.

What Motivates Individuals to Plan for End-of-Life Care?
What truly motivates people to plan for medical care at life's end? With record numbers of Americans now reaching senior status, surprisingly little is known about these decisions or the factors that shape them, says University of Wisconsin-Madison sociologist Deborah Carr. A study by Carr and her Rutgers University colleague Dmitry Khodyakov now offers insights into a critical aspect of end-of-life planning: the choice to appoint a "health care proxy" who will make treatment decisions should a person become incapacitated. Their findings indicate that education, religious attitudes and experience with a loved one's death - especially a painful death - are all powerful influences on this decision. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, June 2007. CLICK HERE.

CONFERENCES & COURSES

End of Life Nursing Education Consortium Courses for 2008:
April 21-23: ELNEC-Critical Care, Pasadena, CA (grant funded for CA nurses) May 5-7: ELNEC-Geriatric, Pasadena, CA (grant funded for CA nurses)
June 25-27: ELNEC-SuperCore, Chicago, IL
July 9-11: ELNEC-Pediatric Palliative Care, Pasadena, CA
October 9-11: ELNEC-Critical Care, Washington, DC
For more information and registration, go to: www.aacn.nche.edu/ELNEC/CourseSchedule.htm

Gifts of the Imagination – Guided Imagery for Surviving and Thriving Beyond Cancer
April 4, 2008 / Seattle, WA
April 5, 2008 / Portland, OR
Sponsored by Healing Journeys, Swedish Cancer Institute, Providence Cancer Center

Psychotherapist, author and guided imagery innovator Belleruth Naparstek will lead these guided imagery workshops. Participants will see how guided imagery dramatically demonstrates profound truths about the total merger of mind, body and spirit; learn tips on how to make the guided imagery experience more efficacious for both the narrator and the end- user; and learn effective ways to deal with pain, insomnia, anxiety and stress. For further information and registration, www.healingjourneys.org.

Conversations in Disciplines
Working together toward better quality: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on End of Life and Palliative Care
May 2, 2008: Binghamton, NY, Holiday Inn Arena Hotel
Sponsored by the Decker School of Nursing, Binghamton University

Key Note Speakers: Betty Ferrell, PhD. FAAN, Professor, Nursing Research & Education, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, Duarte, CA. Timothy Quill, MD, Director of the Palliative Care Program University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY

To Register on-line: www.continuinged.binghamton.edu/decker

The Patient Alone: Making Health Care Choices for Patients Without Surrogates
May 6-7, 2008 / Boston, MA
Sponsored by American Health Decisions and Massachusetts Health Decisions

The persistent problem of deciding what to do on behalf of patients who are incapacitated (or soon will be) and have no available surrogate is the focus of this conference. Responses to the problem include court- appointed guardianship, public guardian programs, surrogate decision making committees, institutional and system-wide policies and protocols, as well as ad-hoc decision making by persons without legal authority to decide for patients. This conference seeks to explore the responses to date, and move the discussion forward. For registration and conference information, www.ahd.org.

33rd Annual Congress – Declare Yourself!
May 15-18, 2008 / Philadelphia, PA
Sponsored by Oncology Nursing Society

Sessions for disease-specific information, new treatments and therapies, survivorship, leadership, safe practice, self care and growth, and research in practice will be offered. For more information and registration, www.ons.org.

2008 Catholic Health Assembly – The Future of Compassion
June 22-24, 2008 / San Diego, CA
Sponsored by Catholic Health Association

Health care of the future promises astounding medical and technological advances. But it also poses fresh challenges for the Catholic ministry. This Assembly will look out over the horizon to consider the opportunities and threats that lie ahead. Participants will hear futuristic, inspiring, poignant presentations from distinguished keynote speakers and share expertise from across the ministry in the Innovation Forum. Early bird registration for CHA members continues through April 18, 2008. For more information and to register, www.chausa.org/assembly, or call 1-800-230-7823.

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