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Updates and Events Palliative and End-of-Life Care Updates
End of Life
Care Certificate Program The
Symposia/Trainings: NEW – Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care Newsletters
To access it click on the following URL: http://www.swlda.org/Downloads/January-March%2004%20Newsletter.pdf or through the main page, click on Newsletters on the left-hand sidebar.
Grants/Funding Announcements:
* Funding Opportunities for Social Work Training, Research and Career Development.
National Cancer Institute: http://www.nci.nih.gov/researchfunding/ http://www.nci.nih.gov/researchfunding/organizations/
The American Cancer Society The largest not-for-profit funding source for cancer research, is pleased to invite applications for the following grants to support training, research, and career development in areas of interest to oncology social workers.
Web Page Announces Opportunities for Cancer Symptom Management and Palliative Care Research This new page announces funding opportunities and broad areas of encouraged research in cancer symptom management and palliative care at the National Cancer Institute and other Institutes and Centers within the National Institutes of Health. These announcements are coordinated through NCI's Palliative Care Working Group and can now be found in one place on the new Web page. http://www.cancer.gov/researchfunding/announcements/symptommanagement
New Integrated Fellowships An exciting new fellowship opportunity, funded by the National Institutes of Health, is now available through the Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
http://www.aahpm.org/fellowship/fellowgrant.html The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) invites proposals from new or established palliative care fellowship training programs for funding support of individual fellowships in palliative care.
Faith in Action Start-up Grantshttp://www.fiavolunteers.org/funding/index.cfm Faith in Action programs bring together religious congregations of all faiths, and other community organizations such as hospices, clinics, and hospitals, in a common mission to provide volunteer care to their neighbors in need.
John A. Hartford
Foundation, Inc.
American Geriatrics Society http://www.americangeriatrics.org/funding/ The funding opportunities listed are updated on a monthly basis.
Archstone
Foundation Grants
Arthur Vining Davis Foundations http://www.jvm.com/davis/index.htm Grant applications addressing hospice and end-of-life issues are included as part of the Foundations’ overall Health Care grant making program.
Grants Net
Applications Invited for Robert Wood Johnson Health http://www.rwjf.org/programs/npoDetail.jsp?id=EOL
Palliative
What's New?
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has created a new online Special Report Disparities at the End of Life, that can be accessed at: http://www.rwjf.org/news/eoldisparities
PDIA Press Releases: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-News
* Advanced Directives Improvement Act
* New! The Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life and Palliative Care
Job Openings:
* Please contact Dr. Bullock to post your job openings.
Reports and Articles:
National Cancer Policy Board and the Institute of Medicine Release Report: This report describes Death in America: What We Need to Know. A review of the availability of current sources of information shed light on the quality of care and quality of life at the end-of-life. It uncovers wide gaps between what we would like to know and what is actually known or knowable, if existing national-level data were fully explored and analyzed. The report surveys currently available datasets and methodological issues in the collection and use of data about dying and makes a series of recommendations which address supporting the use of existing data systems, and undertaking new data collection efforts.
NY Times Article on Physician Depression and Suicide For an overview of the JAMA article and the workshop recommendations, as well as to learn more about AFSP's physician suicide project, visit www.afsp.org and click on "Confronting Depression and Suicide in Physicians".
USA Today Article on Doctors Lack of Training for to Ease Severe Patient Pain A majority of patients with cancer and other serious illnesses suffer from pain and discomfort, despite the fact that most such symptoms can be safely and effectively treated.
The Plain Dealer Doctor urges palliative care for sick kids
Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette (Pennsylvania)
'EVERYBODY DIES OF
SOME DISEASE' Alternatives to the Oral Delivery of Opiates
The Art of Oncology—When the Tumor Is Not the Target An Anthology about End-of-Life Care and Doctor/Patient Communications
"The Informed Patient"
Books:
"Healing Children's Grief" http://www.childrensgrief.com/
"When Children Die" http://www.nap.edu/openbook/0309084377/html/
*If you would like to have an educational or training event announced through the Resource Enrichment Center, please provide your contact information in our Guest Book.
Joan Berzoff's new book: Living with Dying: A Handbook for End-of-Life Healthcare Practitioners
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