Educational Programs Other - The Carolinas Center for Hospice & End of Life Care

The Carolinas Center for Hospice and End of Life Care does not provide the education listed below. It is offered by our hospice provider members and by collaborating agencies. For more information about a program listed below, please use the contact information provided. If you call The Carolinas Center, we will not have any further information about the program.

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New Pain Management Tool-Kit Available: Pain and Dementia
A New Look at Grief - the Research, the Care, the Challenges
2008 North Carolina Conference on Aging

New Pain Management Tool-Kit Available: Pain and Dementia

The Resource Center of the Alliance of State Pain Initiatives (ASPI) is pleased to announce the release of a new educational tool for detecting pain in patients with dementia.

"Detecting Discomfort in Dementia: Focus on Behaviors - What Nursing Assistants Need to Know About Pain," was developed under the direction of Karen Stevenson, MS, RN, Manager of Professional Education and Institutional Change Programs for ASPI and June Dahl, PhD., Senior Advisor for ASPI.

The 13-minute educational video and the accompanying booklet, "Tools for Inservice Education" provide the necessary information to help nursing assistants understand the role they play in practicing good care for cognitively impaired residents in pain. The video was filmed in several long-term care facilities and shows examples of residents' discomfort behaviors and nursing assistants' interventions to provide and advocate for comfort. After using these educational tools, nursing assistants will be able to identify the behaviors that cognitively impaired residents may show when in pain or discomfort and understand the ways they can help cognitively impaired residents get relief for their pain.

Half of all nursing home residents have pain that is severe enough to interfere with their daily activities and quality of life. Many of these residents are cognitively impaired because of dementia or other memory problems, and may not be able to use words to communicate about their pain. Instead, they may show their pain or discomfort through their behaviors. Nursing assistants, who provide most of their care, may be the first to notice the behaviors that signal a problem with pain.

For information on how to order "Detecting Discomfort in Dementia: Focus on Behaviors," please visit the ASPI website at: www.aspi.wisc.edu or call 608.262.0978. The cost for the DVD and Training Booklet is $49.99.

A New Look at Grief - the Research, the Care, the Challenges

When: May 2, 2008
Where: UpayaZenCenter, Santa Fe, New Mexico

This program is sponsored by Spartanburg Regional Department of Education. The workshop will run from 9:00 am - 4:30 pm and will be held at the Summit Pointe Conference Center in Spartanburg, SC. The speaker will be will be Gary Gardia, Med, LCSW.

The target audience is Social Workers, Counselors, Nurses, Chaplains, Funeral Directors and others who work with grieving persons and their families.

At the end of this program, participants should be able to:

Identify three recent research studies / reports related to grief and loss intervention.
Discuss three findings from recent research.
Explain the role of values and meaning in assessing "world view".
Demonstrate the use of the "values / meaning assessment tool".
Describe the role of assimilation in values / meaning model" approach to assessment.
Identify the limits of emotional support in achieving affective results.
Differentiate assertive from aggressive and passive-aggressive.
List 2 challenges associated with utilizing a more assertive approach to care.
Discuss the role of the "coach" and demonstrate one model for identification of choices and options.
Demonstrate the application of one model to a case requiring an assertive response.
Discuss 2 of the common challenges we face in end-of-life care.
List three challenging personality types with associated features.
Demonstrate interventions that are effective in responding to these personalities.
Describe on model useful in understanding complex family dynamics and family systems.
List 3 critical issues that interfere with family communication.
Identify one method for facilitating team collaboration around challenging cases.

For registration information, call Crystal Green at 864.560.6282. For program information, call Dianne Lanford at 864.560.6251.

2008 North Carolina Conference on Aging

When: October 29-30, 2008
Where: Greenville, NC

The 2008 North Carolina Conference on Aging Sponsor, Exhibitor, Advertiser Guide, AND the Call for Presentations are now available on the conference website at: www.aging.unc.edu/nccoa

This year's Conference Theme is: "HEALTHY? WEALTHY? AND WISE? - GROWING OLDER IN NORTH CAROLINA." A diversified program is being planned which features general sessions with national keynote speakers, a variety of educational workshops, best practice roundtables, paper and poster sessions. The PreProgram/Registration booklet containing the preliminary conference schedule, a listing of events, the conference registration form, information on special block room rates at the two conference hotels (The Hilton and The City Hotel & Bistro, Greenville, NC), as well as information on area attractions, will be available late Spring on the Conference website: www.aging.unc.edu/nccoa.

If you have any questions, please contact Diane Wurzinger at 919.843.2647 or diane_wurzinger@unc.edu.