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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
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Save
the Date: 6th Annual
Policy Summit
• Capitol Plaza Hotel
Jefferson
City,MO |
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Wednesday
Evening,
September 29,
2010 |
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Annual
Meeting - 6:30 pm
Opening Reception "Grace Before Dying" Exhibit - Capitol Rotunda - 7:30 pm |
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Thursday
morning, September 30, 2010 - 7:30 am
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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?
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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)
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Click here for Summit Schedule
Click here for the Reg. Letter
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