Faith & Spirituality Symposium on End-of-Life Care

Formerly known as Alive Hospice’s Faith Leaders Conference on End-of-Life Care, Alive Hospice’s 2016 Faith & Spirituality Symposium will offer a day of reflection, discussion and insight into spiritual care and the end of life with resources and beneficial practices.

Open to all who have an interest in end-of-life care: worship community leaders, chaplains, lay leaders, health care professionals, educators and students, government representatives, nonprofit professionals and their volunteers, and the general public.

Keynote Speaker:
Reggie Anderson, M.D., Chief of Staff at TriStar Ashland City Medical Center and author of Appointments with Heaven: The True Story of a Country Doctor’s Healing Encounters with the Hereafter.

Topics will include:

• Interfaith Panel Discussion
• Marrying Medicine and Faith, Allowing Them to Co-Exist
• Embracing Moments of Happiness and Fulfillment in End-of-Life Care
• Historical Overview of Death and Dying
• What is A Natural Death? The Medicalization of Dying
• Seeing Beyond the End of Life as Failure
• Suicide Prevention for Professionals
• Palliative Care
• Care for Caregivers
• Mindful Presence
• Essential Oils as Complimentary Therapy for End-of-Life Care

A program of The Alive Institute, Alive Hospice’s Center for Education, Outreach, Innovation and Advocacy