Hospice to appear in two broadcast media formats
Hospice to appear in two broadcast media formats
Before I Die: Medical Care and Personal Choices is a Public Broadcasting Service television special scheduled to premiere at 10 p.m., Eastern time, Tuesday, April 22. Produced by the Fred Friendly Seminars, with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the program is designed to confront expert panelists with hypothetical situations in which the right choices are not always evident.
Panelists at the program’s December 1996 taping included Missoula, MT, hospice physician Ira Byock, MD, author of the recently published Dying Well: The Prospect for Growth at the End of Life; Sherwin Nuland, MD, author of the 1994 bestseller How We Die; Constance Holden, RN, MSN, executive director of Hospice of Boulder County, CO; and Joanne Lynn, MD, Director of the Center to Improve Care of the Dying at George Washington University in Washington, DC.
PBS local stations will try to spark interest in the seminar by previewing it in an interactive national video conference on April 3. Community meetings and discussion groups will also be encouraged with a resource kit developed by the producers. For more information, contact Shanyn McNulty or Crystal Coleman at the public relations firm Barksdale Ballard in Vienna, VA, (703) 827-8771.
The Hospice Foundation of America’s fourth annual national bereavement teleconference is scheduled for Wednesday, April 16, from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m., Eastern time. Titled Living with Grief: When Illness is Prolonged the live-via-satellite conference will be moderated by Cokie Roberts of ABC News. Last year’s teleconference was viewed by about 120,000 people at 2,000 registered downlink sites.
This year’s conference explores the stresses of caregivers associated with diseases such as cancer, AIDS, and Alzheimer’s, both during and after the illness. Each participating downlink site must register in advance and designate a site coordinator. The foundation provides free site coordinator’s manuals, media kits, and resource books for attendees. CEU credit is offered for $15. For more information, contact the foundation’s teleconference desk at (202) 638-5419.
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