Tag / advance care planning
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Walking Around Heaven All Day: A Personal Journey Toward Empowered End-of-Life Choices
Gloria Thomas Anderson’s passion to promote Advance Care Planning has been inspired by the devastating effects of inequitable care provided to family members and her own near-death experience. In this essay, she describes how a simple conversation with her mother turned into a powerful discussion about her mother’s care goals. Dr. Anderson developed the Let’s Talk about ACP program.
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Let’s Talk About ACP Program
Let's Talk About ACPThe Program The Center for Practical Bioethics is honored to be selected as one of the Legacy Project recipients of The John and Wauna Harman Foundation! Their support gives us the opportunity to partner with Dr. Gloria Thomas Anderson, whose research and community engagement work, focuses on improving equitable end-of-life and advance… -
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Case Study – Aaron’s Siblings Need to Make a Tough Decision
Bioethics case study on shared decision making in video or print. Aaron’s siblings, who are wanting aggressive measures, are now unsure and need to make a tough decision.
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July 23 2024 Email Newsletter
The Center announces the 30th Annual Flanigan Lecture, publishes a blog encouraging filling out a DPOA for the benefit of your family, and provides links to news stories Ryan Pferdehirt has been in this month are highlighted in this issue.
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Protect Your Family Before the Phone Rings
Her father remained in a persistent vegetative state for the next 12 years, while Monica and her brothers wished to request a DNR, but their stepmother had apposing deeply religious views. Monica Delles, Communications and Website Coordinator at the Center, requests you complete your advance directive because the end of your life could be the end of your family without it.
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Gloria Thomas Anderson, PhD, LMSW
Gloria Thomas Anderson, PhD, LMSW Founder and Program Lead, Let's Talk About ACP Curriculum Vitae Contact Us Dr. Gloria Thomas Anderson is the Founder of the “Let’s Talk About ACP” Program and serves as the ACP Program Lead at the Center for Practical Bioethics. She drives transformative initiatives in the $85 billion Advanced Care Planning (ACP)… -
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Advance Care Planning: Responding to the Need for Diverse Communities’ Participation
In this blog, James Stowe, President and CEO, discusses building on the Center’s legacy work in Advance Care Planning, the Center’s national involvement in end-of-life care emphasizes our growing commitment to diverse communities’ participation and the need to respond effectively to emergent high stress situations in medical decision making.
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November 9 2023 Email Newsletter
Learn about the three definitions of medical futility and how to balance them, having a advance care planning discussion with your family during the Thanksgiving holiday and more in the Center for Practical Bioethics’ November 9, 2023 monthly email newsletter.
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October 26 2023 Email Newsletter
Learn how clinical ethics services has three ROI’s, Lindsey Jarrett is promoted to VP of Ethical AI, and how to share your final wishes with your family in the Center for Practical Bioethics’ October 26, 2023 monthly email newsletter.
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Accelerated Advance Care Planning in Long Term Care
Accelerated Advance Care Planning in Long Term Care The Center's accelerated advance care planning (ACP) in long-term care training programs is geared toward professional associations, long-term care providers, and organizations seeking guidance on how to respond to crisis situations quickly and compassionately, where families may be separated and difficult care planning discussions must be managed…
