Living With Grief: Ethical Dilemmas at the End of Life
Living With Grief: Ethical Dilemmas at the End of Life offers constructive advice to those who are facing the difficult circumstances that surround caring for someone who is dying. (This course is available on VHS or DVD.)
Topics Covered Include:
Part I: HISTORICAL, SPIRITUAL, AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES
- Philosophical Principles of Ethical Judgments James L.Werth, Jr.
- Religious, Spiritual, and Ideological Perspectives on Ethics at End of Life Cynthia B. Cohen
- Cultural and Religious Views on Nonbeneficial Treatment Noel Tiano and ElizaBeth Beyer
Case Study: “Please don’t tell her.” Family Opposition to Breaking Bad News San Diego Hospice and Palliative Care - Ethics, End-of-Life Care, and the Law: Overview Alan Meisel and Bruce Jennings
Part II: CURRENT ETHICAL ISSUES IN END-OF-LIFE CARE
- How Americans Want to Die—Grassroots Values and Cultural Diversity Bruce Jennings
Case Study: Patient Autonomy, Beneficence, Medical Futility, and the Hospice Health Care Provider Hospice of Palm Beach County - Autonomy, Consent, and Advance Directives William M. Lamers, Jr.
- Initiating, Facilitating, and Honoring Conversations about Future Medical Care Bernard J. Hammes and Linda A. Briggs
Case Study: The Withdrawal of Ventilator Support at Home San Diego Hospice and Palliative Care - When Families Disagree: Family Conflict and Decisions Samira K. Beckwith
- Ethical Dilemmas in Surrogate Decision Making Bruce Jennings
- Rational Suicide in Terminal Illness: The Ethics of Intervention and Assistance Thomas Attig
Case Study: Privileged Information or Confused Communication? Hospice and Palliative Care Associates of Central New York
Part III: ETHICS AND THE HEALTH SYSTEM
- Ethical Dilemmas in Hospice Care Richard Fife
Case Study: Sarah: Autonomy and Medical Paternalism Hospice of the Bluegrass - A Life Cut Short: When Children Die Craig M. Klugman
Case Study: Brian: Autonomy and Self-Determination of a Minor The Center for Hospice and Palliative Care - Living and Dying in Nursing Homes Sandra Johnson
- Organ Donation: Ethical Issues and Issues of Loss and Grief Charles A. Corr
- The Ethics of Excess and Deprivation: Implications for End-of-Life Care Larry R. Churchill
SECTION IV: CONCLUSION
- Ethics, End-of-Life Decisions, and Grief Kenneth J. Doka
Case Study: Withdrawal of Implantable Cardiac Devices Alive Hospice - Emerging Ethical Issues in the 21st Century Robert Kastenbaum
- Resources Lisa McGahey Veglahn
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:
Alzheimer’s Disease - Living With Grief:
Coping with Public Tragedy
- Living With Grief:
Loss in Later Life - Caregiving and Loss:
Family Needs, Professional Responses - 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 - Engaging Faith Communities in End-of-Life Care
- Living With Grief:
After Sudden Loss
