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End-of-Life Issues
10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET
Live Interactive Online Webinar
$60.00

Preparing for yourself, or someone else’s end-of-life can be daunting. Logistics such as planning for care, knowing your own values, respecting the wishes of others, and preparing documents related to these values and wishes can be incredibly challenging. Initiating and engaging in conversations with the important people in your life about these wishes, values and documents can be even more challenging. This course will explore definitions related to end of life, challenge participants to think about their own values and wishes related to their own dying process and identify the needed documentation that will ensure their care is in line with their desires. We will also explore different options available for care at the end of life including hospice, voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED), termination of treatment and medical aid in dying. [Elective for Gerontology Certificate Program]

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3.0 Ethics
Objectives

At the conclusion of this webinar, participants will be able to:

  1. Define loss, grief and mourning and understand the difference
  2. Identify their own values related to their own end of life wishes
  3. Describe how their values may impact the way they treat others who are dying
  4. Identify at least 3 end-of-life options and how to access them
Outline

  1. Outline

    1. Welcome and Overview                                                                  

    2. What is End of Life- Definition                                                      

      1. Definition of Loss in context

    3. What is Advance Care Planning                                                  

      1. Health Care Proxy

      2. Advance Directives

      3. Break Out #1: Thinking about Values

      4. Why is it important

      5. Special Populations in ACP

        1. Solo agers

        2. LGBTQ

        3. BIPOC

    4. Life is like a box of dominoes                                                        

      1. Listen, curiosity, validate

      2. Break Out #2: Starting the Conversation

    5. Options for End of Life                                                                           

      1. Treatment

      2. Withdrawal of Treatment

      3. Never starting Treatment

      4. Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED)

      5. Hospice (and Palliative Care)

        1. Differences between hospice and palliative care

      6. Medical Aid in Dying

        1. Definition

        2. Eligibility

        3. Ethics

    6. Break Out #3: Talking about your own EOL                             

    7. Grief and Bereavement                                                                   

      1. Definitions of Loss, Grief and Mourning

        1. Companioning Model of Grief

    8. Wrap up/Q&A                                                                                      

Level
Beginner - Advanced
Audience
Social Workers and Allied Health Professionals