2012

Summer Institute

Transition and Transformation
July 18 - 21, 2012

sponsors

Hospice Foundation of America provides leadership in the development and application of hospice and its philosophy of care with the goal of enhancing the U.S. health care system and the role of hospice within it.

Hospice Foundation of America meets its mission by conducting programs of professional development, public education and information, research, publications and health policy issues. Our programs for health care professionals assist those who cope either personally or professionally with terminal illness, death, and the process of grief, and are offered on a national or regional basis. Our programs for the public assist individual consumers of health care who are coping with issues of caregiving, terminal illness, and grief.

Program Director

WAGECC

The purpose of WAGECC is to improve the health, quality of life, and potential of older persons, particularly those in underserved areas. We provide education and training to health care professionals. Our learners include the disciplines of: medicine, nursing, social work, physical therapy, occupational therapy, health administration, nutrition, psychology, expressive arts therapy, clergy, and others. A person-centered approach, which incorporates learning through the arts and humanities, is a key component of the curriculum.

Program Director

The Institute

The Program

Beginning in 2006, the first summer institute was developed through the Graduate program in End-of-Life Care housed in the Health Sciences Programs within the School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) and offered only CEU’s. The institute continued in this format until 2009 when the institute format was changed..