Living With Grief: Loss in Later Life
Living With Grief: Loss in Later Life explores the range of losses found in later life and discusses ways that professionals can more effectively serve those coping with loss.
Topics Covered Include:
Part I: Death as a Fact of Later Life
- Age, Death, and Life Review Robert N. Butler
- Practical Suggestions: Life Review: A Rewarding Activity Michon Lartigue
- Death in Life Kenneth J. Doka
- Voices: Preparing for Departure, Rounded Corners and All Richard C. Wald
- Stories of the Oldest-Old as They Face Death Lin Noyes
Part II: Growing Old and Dying
- Loss and Alzheimer’s Disease Lin Noyes
- Communicating with Families during Advanced Illness William Lamers, Jr
- Voices: My Maggie Memories Denise Jones
- Spiritual Care as Death Approaches Late in Life Paul E. Irion
- The Senior Population and the Spectrum of Care William D. Novelli
- Practical Suggestions: Linking the Generations Ashley Davis Prend
- Issues of Loss and Grief in Long-Term Care Facilities Timothy Keay
- Lessons for an Aging Population from the Hospice Model Stephen R. Connor
- Ethical Issues in Hospice Care Mark H. Waymack
- Practical Suggestions: A Final Affairs Fair Jane Louis
- Disenfranchised Grief Kenneth J. Doka
Part III: Loss and Grief in Later Life
- Loss and Transition in Later Life Phyllis R. Silverman
- Effects of Grief on a Survivor's Health J. Richard Williams
- Facing Life Alone: Loss of a Significant Other in Later Life Dale Lund, Michael S. Caserta
- Faces of Grief and Intimacy in Later Life Brian deVries, Rosemary Blieszner, John Blando
- Voices: Adult Orphans Jack D. Gordon
- Voices: A Grandmother’s Grief Judy Mann
- Suicide in Older People Patrick Arbore
- Voices: Reflections on Post-Traumatic Stress Myra MacPherson
- Culture and Loss Hosam K. Kamel, Charles P. Mouton, Deborah R. McKee
- Making Sense of Loss Robert A. Neimeyer
- Counseling Later-Life Families Janice Winchester Nadeau
- Expressive Therapies: Piecing Together the Quilt of Life Virginia Lynn Fry
- Rituals and Stories: Creative Approaches to Loss in Later Life Elaine Tiller
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 Loss: 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: Coping with Public Tragedy
- Living With Grief: Alzheimer's Disease
- 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
- Living With Grief:
After Sudden Loss
