How to Talk About Dying – via Zoom

Understanding your own personal feelings and views of death and dying is essential when providing end-of-life care. This session focuses on practical approaches to use when speaking with patients and...

How to Talk About Dying – via Zoom

Virtual

Understanding your own personal feelings and views of death and dying is essential when providing end-of-life care. This session focuses on practical approaches to use when speaking with patients and...

Being Mortal – via Zoom

In this documentary and discussion from PBS Frontline, Dr. Atul Gawande, offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly. He also explores the...

Being Mortal – via Zoom

In this documentary and discussion from PBS Frontline, Dr. Atul Gawande, offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly. He also explores the...

Trauma-Informed Care: Why It’s Important

Trauma-informed care acknowledges that caregivers need to have a complete picture of a patient’s life situation — past and present — in order to provide effective care. We’ll review how...

Free

Trauma-Informed Care: Why It’s Important

Trauma-informed care acknowledges that caregivers need to have a complete picture of a patient’s life situation — past and present — in order to provide effective care. We’ll review how...

Free

Understanding Grief and Loss

In this presentation we will explore ways to more effectively help care for ourselves and those who are grieving the loss of a loved one. We will also discuss additional...

Free

Understanding Grief and Loss

In this presentation we will explore ways to more effectively help care for ourselves and those who are grieving the loss of a loved one. We will also discuss additional...

Free

Geriatric Care: Preparing for the Silver Tsunami

Participants will learn about how to use care coordination and home-based primary care to optimize the health and well-being of older adults. Register HERE for this Zoom event. Upon completion...

Dementia Loss Workshop (Virtual) CANCELLED

Losing a loved one to Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia diagnoses often involves experiencing two deaths: the slow recession of the person you knew and their eventual physical death. This...

Family Dynamics at End of Life

This session reviews the complexity and uniqueness of each patient’s family. Understanding how our roles and beliefs influence our lives, and those of who we care for, improves our approach...

Free

Family Dynamics at End of Life

This session reviews the complexity and uniqueness of each patient’s family. Understanding how our roles and beliefs influence our lives, and those of who we care for, improves our approach to caring for them at end of life. An interactive exercise will be used to demonstrate what the culture is within your own family unit....

Free
Event Series Camp BRIGHT: OIympians in the Making

Camp BRIGHT: OIympians in the Making

Fred Fletcher Park 820 Clay Street, Raleigh, NC, United States

Camp BRIGHT is a one-day camp for youth ages 5–14 who are impacted by the death of a significant person. Therapeutic techniques are creatively infused by trained bereavement specialists to create a safe, fun, loving, and educational atmosphere where families can continue their journey toward healing. Camp BRIGHT 2022 is called "Olympians in the Making."...

Free

Social Isolation and Loneliness

The impact of social isolation and loneliness can be devastating to anyone’s health but especially affects those who are aging. We will discuss practical strategies to help ourselves and others to maintain social connections and discover the resources available for the isolated and lonely. Register HERE or below for this Zoom event.

Free

Social Isolation and Loneliness

The impact of social isolation and loneliness can be devastating to anyone’s health but especially affects those who are aging. We will discuss practical strategies to help ourselves and others to maintain social connections and discover the resources available for the isolated and lonely. Register HERE or below for this Zoom event.

Free