Caregiving and Loss: Family Needs, Professional Responses
Caregiving and Loss: Family Needs, Professional Responses examines the ways that health care and other professionals can better understand and support family caregivers.
Topics Covered Include:
Part I:
Caregiving as an Issue: Policy and Programs
- Introduction: Nature of Caregiving Carol Levine
- Hospice as a Model for Caregiving Marcia Lattanzi-Licht
- Voices: Hoping This Could Be Somebody Else’s Life Elizabeth Halling
- Interview: Fannie Mae’s Elder Care Initiative
- Family Caregiving and Loss: The Work/Family Dynamic Myrl Weinberg & Dee Ellison
- Interview: AT&T’s Life Tracks Program
- Creating and Energizing Caring Communities Bill Gaventa
- Voices: Jitterbug Brian Alexander
- Programs That Work: CARE-NET
Part II: The Caregiving Experience:
Implications for Professionals
- Paraprofessional Workers in Long-Term Care: Dealing with Loss and Bereavement Eileen K. Chichin, Orah K. Burack, & John M. Carter
- Voices: No Fame or Fortune Karen
- Cultural Differences: Sensitivities Required for Effective Caring Bernice Catherine Harper, Michon Lartigue, & Kenneth J. Doka
- Programs That Work: Grotta Synagogue HOPE
- Practical Suggestions: What Caregivers Need From Doctors William Lamers
Selfless Soldier Barry Jacobs
- Voices: The Rest of My Life Jim Skofield
- Nursing’s Role in Family Caregiver Support Susan Reinhard
- Practical Suggestions: Caregiver Fairs: Support in Action
- Self-Care: The Path to Wholeness Beth Witrogen McLeod
- Programs That Work:
- Volunteer Hospices: Talbot Hospice Foundation
Part III:
Grief, Loss, and the End of Life
- Grief, Loss, and Caregiving Kenneth J. Doka
- Voices: The Wife: Seven Months Later Lynda Zycherman
- Providing Spiritual Support to Family Caregivers Reverend George Blackwell & Rabbi Harold Stern
The Reciprocal Suffering of Caregivers Deborah Sherman- Programs That Work: Family Caregiver Alliance
- Hard Decisions in Hard Times: Helping Families Make Ethical Choices During Prolonged Illness David M. Price
- Programs That Work: Whitman-Walker Clinic
- Voices: I Know Now Desmond Groarke
Part IV: Conclusion
Joyce D. Davidson
Participants must return the program evaluation form in order to received credit which will be issued by Hospice Foundation of America. HFA is recognized by the National Board of Certified Counselors to provide continuing education for nationally certified counselors (Provider #5729). HFA adheres to all NBCC continuing education guidelines.
Other Courses Offered
- Engaging Faith Communities in End-of-Life Care
- Living With Grief: Children and Adolescents
- Living With Grief: Before and After the Death
- Pain Management at the End of Life: Bridging the Gap Between Knowledge and Practice
- Living With Grief: Ethical Dilemmas at the End of Life
- Living With Grief: Alzheimer's Disease
- Living With Grief: Coping With Public Tragedy
- Living With Grief: Loss in Later Life
- Living With Grief: At Work, At School, At Worship
- Living With Grief: Who We Are, How We Grieve
- Living With Grief: When Illness is Prolonged
- Living With Grief:
After Sudden Loss
