Calendar of Caregiver Events

Caregiver, Hospice, Palliative Care, Nursing, Events and Conferences

Please send us (hospiceweb@gmail.com) a listing of your event and we’ll be happy to post it.

Ongoing

Nursing Conferences I

Nursing Conferences II

Clinical Cancer Educational Events and Training

Caregiving Webinars

Fearless Caregiver Conferences

March 2011

March 8 8:00 a.m.—5:15 p.m. Care Coordination Summit: Improving Practice in a time of Change
The Venetian, Las Vegas, NV

March 10—12 Palliative Medicine and Supportive Oncology
2011 Harbor Beach Marriott Hotel, Fort Lauderdale, FL

March 14-15 First National Palliative Care Summit Washington, DC

16 March Rochester, Minnesota, USA
Twenty-Eighth Annual Minnesota Geriatric Care Conference

March 25 Innovations in Palliative Social Work: Emerging Models, Effective Strategies
Presented by the Wurzweiler School of Social Work—Yeshiva University
8:15 a.m.—1:00 p.m. http://www.yu.edu/Wurzweiler

March 27-30 NAHC 2011 March on Washington & Law Symposium & Exposition March 27-30, 2011 Washington, DC

March 31 6th Educational Conference on Palliative and End of Life Care:
Dying in Old Age: Context and  Community – Toronto, Canada

April 2011

April 7-9, 2011 NHPCO 26th Management and Leadership Conference
Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center
National Harbor, Maryland (A suburb of Washington, DC)

April 10-12 One Vision, One Voice Hospice Palliative Care Conference Toronto Canada

April 12 5th National Conference: Current Issues in Palliative Care London United Kingdom

April 13 29th VNAA Annual Meeting Baltimore Maryland

April 13 Hospice Foundation of America’s 18th Annual Living with Grief® educational program, Spirituality and End-of-Life Care. Available on DVD, the 2 1/2 hour program can be shown according to your schedule beginning on April 13, 2011

April 26-30 Aging in America Conference San Francisco, California

April 29 Cancer Pain Conference Scottsdale Arizona – Dr. Lisa Stearns has developed a dynamicconference to assist clinicans in integrating interventional pain management and supportive care in patients diagnosed with cancer. Sessions include traditional lectures, workshops and roundtables.

May 2011

May 11 First Annual Leadership Conference in Washington DC at the National Press Club

May 10 – 11 Alzheimers Assn of Indiana Caregivers Conference Fort Wayne and Indianapolis

May 17-18 2011 Hoosier Home Care & Hospice Conference
Marriott East Conference Center
7202 East 21st Street
Indianapolis, IN 46219

May 25 2nd Global Conference – Making Sense Of: Pain Warsaw Poland
This interdisciplinary conference provides a forum for inquiry into the vicissitudes of pain: its nature and existential significance, and the many ways in which pain plays a part in our lives.

June 2011

June 1 10th Annual Kaleidoscope International Palliative Care Conference Dublin Ireland

June 2-5 AHNA Conference Louisville KY – Holistic Nursing Conference. We’ll be there!

June 5-11 FICCDAT-Toronto (includes family caregiving track) Canada – Caregiving, Aging, Disability and Technology

June 16 -17, The Sixth Annual Texas Conference on Health Disparities: An Eye Towards the Future University of North Texas Health Science Center Fort Worth, Texas

June 22—25 Making Connections: Dying, Death and Bereavement in the Global Community
Pre-conference Institute June 21—22, 2011
InterContinental Miami – Miami, FL
Join your peers in thanatology for this exciting event, a combined meeting of the International Conference on Grief and Bereavement in Contemporary Society and the Association for Death Education and Counseling

June 22 International Society of Advance Care Planning & End of Life Care Conference 2011 London United Kingdom

July 2011

July 6 – 10 Annual Conference of the American Art Therapy Association Creative Energy, Collective Efforts: Empowering the Art Therapy Journey Washington, DC

July 8-11 5th International Conference on Family Care Leeds, UK

July 13—15 Improving Quality of Life and Quality of Care for Oncology Family Caregivers Location: Anaheim, CA

July 13-15 NAHC 17th Annual Financial Management Conference & Exposition, San Diego, CA

July 14 9th Asia Pacific Hospice Conference 2011 – Palliative Care in Mainstream Medicine Georgetown Malaysia

July 16-20 n4a Annual Conference and Tradeshow
Washington, DC (National Association of Area Agencies on Aging)

July 25-29 SUMMER INSTITUTE: Interprofessional Spiritual Care Focus of 2011 GWish (George Washington University Institute of Spirituality and Health)

August 2011

August 4 & 5 ELNEC-Core and ELNEC-Critical Care Train-the trainer Courses St. Louis, MO

October 2011

October 1-5 NAHC 30th Annual Meeting & Exposition
Las Vegas, NV

October 6-8 NHPCO 12th Clinical Team Conference and Pediatric Intensive
Town and Country Resort and Convention Center, San Diego, CA
Preconference Events: October 4-5, 2011

October 26 Family Support Center of New Jersey National Caregivers Conference Woodbridge, NJ

November 2011

November 18-23 Gerontological Society of America Conference Boston, MA

Thanks to IAHPC, AAHPM, Conference Alerts & NHPCO for their calendar listings!