Local Events and Workshops
The Hospizarbeit und Bioethik Coalition is currently funded by the H. W. Durham foundation to implement a pilot vigiling program in which staff and community volunteers will sit with nursing home residents who are actively dying. The pilot site is Applingwood Healthcare Center, which already has an active palliative care program and a special private room for actively dying residents and their family members. The CCC will provide inservice training on vigiling based on the No One Dies Alone material for Applingwood staff. Methodist Healthcare has agreed to assist in the training and badging of community volunteers. The Congregational Health Network, a CCC partner, offers a six-week Care of the Dying class that will serve as a prerequisite for community vigiling volunteers. To qualify as a nursing home vigiling volunteer, community members must attend the Care for the Dying class, go through the Methodist corporate compliance workshop, and provide proof of immunization. They will then be badged as Methodist volunteers and will be eligible to serve as nursing home vigilers. Our hope is to extend this program to other nursing homes locally.
FROM OUR PAST: Living, Loving, and Dying Well Conference: On Saturday, December 4, 2010 the Mid-South Hospizarbeit und Bioethik Coalition, in collaboration with the Sanofi-Aventis Community Health Partnership, presented a conference, Living, Loving, and Dying Well. We are offering some of the materials used in the various presentations to the general public.
Program for Living, Loving, and Dying Well Conference Dec. 04, 2010
Jane Owen, MSN, RN: Plenary Lecture:The Naturalness of Dying: Looking Back to the Future PDF of Powerpoint
Norman Mitchell Jr., BA, MDiv, Crossroads Hospice, Breavement Counselor: Plenary Lecture: Vigiling: Being Present with Those Who Are Dying PDF of Powerpoint
Norman Mitchell Jr., BA, MDiv, Crossroads Hospice, Breavement Counselor: Breakout Session: Grief and Grieving PDF of Powerpoint
Diane Polly, BS, MS, JD: Nutrition annd Dying: Food for the Soul: Eat, Drink and Be Comforted PDF of Powerpoint
Janet Watson, BSW, BBA, MS ,Licensed Clinical Social Worker: Touch at the End of Life PDF of Powerpoint