January 21-25 The 14th Annual Pain Management Symposium. Cleveland Clinic Department of Pain Management We invite you to join us in the beautiful setting of the M Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada
January 23-25 - 7th Annual Private Duty Home Care Leadership Summit & Exposition, Las Vegas NV
February 6-8, 2012 9th Annual Medicare Conference, Lowes Portofino Bay Hotel, Orlando FL
February 27 PCORI National Patient and Stakeholder Dialogue 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. EST The National Press Club 529 14th St., NW 13th Floor Washington, D.C. The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) will hold a National Patient and Stakeholder Dialogue on February 27, 2012. We will present PCORI's Draft National Priorities and Research Agenda and welcome three-and-a-half hours of public comment by individuals attending in person and by phone. In addition, there will be two moderated discussion panels on the priorities and agenda featuring patient advocates, caregivers, clinicians and other stakeholders.
February 23 - 25 Palliative Medicine and Supportive Oncology, Key Largo, FL Sponsored by the Cleveland Clinic. National and international experts will challenge the audience to explore new options with the goal of improving patient outcomes.
March 3-7 NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders) 2012 Annual Conference. For more information visit http://www.nicheprogram.org
March 7-10 27th Intl Conference on Alzheimers Science, Fact and Fiction; London, England - Organized by Alzheimers Intl.
March 7-10 2012 AAHPM & HPNA Annual Assembly The Colorado Convention Center Denver, CO Register Now
March 19-22 1st World Conference on Healthy Aging; Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Perseketuan, Malaysia
March 28–April 1 Aging in America, the 2012 Annual Conference of the American Society on Aging in Washington, DC.
March 29 - 31 NHPCO 27th Management and Leadership Conference, Gaylord National Resort, National Harbor, MD
April 4 Looking after older people: Rights and wrongs; sponsored by the Royal Society of Medicine, London England. The aim of the day will be to promote the importance of primary and secondary care and health and social care professionals in working effectively together with the purpose of providing quality care for the elderly.
April 19 Hospice Foundation of America Spring Program: End-of-Life Ethics
April 27 AFTD Annual Conference AFTD’s Annual Meeting and Caregiver Conference will be held in Atlanta, GA
April 27 Dying in Canada: Medical, Cultural and Spiritual Communication in Palliative Care; Toronto-Markham, Ontario, Canada Cultural, Spiritual and Medical aspects of Communication with dying patients and their families in pediatric, geriatric, acute and chronic care contexts. The comforting role of religions and culture in End of Life Care.
April 29- May 1 Annual Hospice Palliative Care Ontario Conference 2012; Toronto, Ontario
May 13 - 15 The International Conference on Integrative Medicine. For information visit http://www.mediconvention.com
May 15-16 Hoosier Home Care & Hospice Conference Marriott East Conference Center (7202 East 21st Street, Indianapolis, IN 46219)
June 28-29 Death Down Under Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand; This conference aims to promote the dissemination of social aspects of death studies research in Australia, New Zealand, and the wider Pacific region.
September 5-7 Ageing: Moving Beyond Boundaries Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom. Interdisciplinarity of ageing research: contributing insights from across disciplines; moving beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries through exploring common strategies and solutions.
October 18 - 20 Aging in a Changing World: 41st Annual Scientific and Educational Meeting of the Canadian Association on Gerontology, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Abstracts due by April 2nd
OCTOBER 28-NOVEMBER 1: 13TH ANNUAL SCIENCE AND CLINICAL APPLICATION OF INTEGRATIVE HOLISTIC MEDICINE @ Hilton San Diego Resort in San Diego, California.
March 6-10, 2013 The 11th International Congress on Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease Abstracts due by 10/2012
Thanks to IAHPC, AAHPM, Conference Alerts, Alt Med Conf Calendar and NHPCO for calendar listings!
From Caregiver Revolution: 5 Easy Steps to Enlightened Caregiving - This book actually has its roots in the Art of Dying Conferences which were held in New York City back in the mid-1990s. Listening to speakers like Ram Dass, Steven Levine, Joan Halifax and Robert Thurman, my views on death and dying were completely transformed and I saw great hope in the hospice movement. I felt optimistic, certain that we could rid our Western culture of its terrible fear of death. The enlightened Tibetan teachings were finally having an impact. E.J. Gold had written the American Book of the Dead which framed these ancient teachings into a western context, and now we were ready to put them to work, out in the field, really helping people to find more conscious death experiences. I continue to strive for this goal. Learning how to do a reading and be present for those who are dying (see Step 5) are vital parts of this book. The relation between reader and voyager (the one who is passing), is the very same as that of caregiver and loved one, and establishing an essential relationship requires that we get rid of stress, learn to focus, and become mindful in our daily activities. Then we can be of real help. We may find ourselves struggling with the day-to-day details, so this book gives the tools to transform that struggle into a labor of love with real, practical outcomes.
