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UPCOMING EVENTS:

Next meeting:  NO August meeting~ See you in September!

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2010 6th Annual Public Policy Summit – “Solutions for Quality End-of-Life Care”

September 30, 2010
Capital Plaza
415 W. McCarty St.
Jefferson City

 



Save the Date: 6th Annual
Policy
Summit
• Capitol Plaza Hotel
Jefferson City,MO







Wednesday Evening,
September 29, 2010



Annual Meeting - 6:30 pm
Opening Reception "Grace Before Dying" Exhibit - Capitol Rotunda - 7:30 pm






Thursday morning, September 30, 2010 - 7:30 am

• Plenaries

"Mental Health's Essential Role in Living and Dying at the end of life"
(Click here to listen to podcast)
Dying is hard enough work without depression and other mental health disorders interfering with achieving end of life goals. Washington University's Brian Carpenter, PhD will share what's normal, what's not and how to respond to both, for patients, caregivers and survivors. While dying may be stressful, it can also be life defining.

"Models, Myths and Momentum – Corrections and End of Life."
(Podcast available soon)
Regardless of how we've lived, we all deserve compassion and competence when our time comes. National expert, Carol McAdoo shares an intimate look at the challenges and rewards of serving prisoners at the end of life. From county jails to federal penitentiaries, this "mission intense" message challenges palliative care and hospice providers' assumptions in caring for society's forgotten outcasts while addressing some challenging policy tensions.

"Show Me" Surrogacy – Why can't a Missouri family decide when Mom didn't say?
(Podcast available soon)
Could a new law on surrogate decision making in Missouri change end of life care and still protect patient interests? Debra Schuster, JD (St. Louis) and John Carney, Center for Practical Bioethics (Kansas City) discuss proposals from legal and ethical perspectives that affect patients, proxies, guardians, and providers. Should MO join the rest of the nation in adopting a surrogacy law?

• Concurrent Sessions
"Access to Palliative Care for the Developmentally Disabled and Mentally Retarded"
"Music Therapy; Implications for End of Life Care"
"Seven Steps to Getting Affairs in Order"
"Grassroots Organizing as a First Step in Advocacy"

For more information contact Ann Bickel (573.635.4999)
abickel@mo-endoflife.org

 

 

Click here for Summit Schedule

Click here for the Reg. Letter

 

 


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The members and volunteers of the Community Alliance for Compassionate Care at the End of Life

We also receive support from:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

National Association of Health Care Assistants (NACHA )

The Center for Practical Bioethics, Kansas City, Missouri
 
Boardman and Associates, P & L Learning
 
 
Missouri State University
 
Drury University

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