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 White Plains, NY - A conference on “A Team of Partners in Palliative Care: Challenges and Choices in Ethics of Care at the End of Life” will take place on Nov. 13 at the Westchester County Center in White Plains.
The Collaborative for End of Life Care of Westchester and the NYS Southern Region, a consortium of more than 40 organizations and agencies committed to education on end-of-life care, is presenting the annual event, which will take place from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. .
The collaborative is affiliated with the Fordham University Ravazzin Center on Aging and the Westchester Public/Private Partnership for Aging Services.
The conference is free, but registration is requested. To sign up, visit the Westchester End of Life Coalition site at westchesterendoflife.org.
The keynote speaker will be ethicist Joseph J. Fins, MD, from New York Presbyterian Hospital. Following Fins’ address, attorney Kathleen Burke and Frederick J. Wertz, Ph.D. from Fordham University, will discuss issues he raised. Burke is vice president and legal counsel at New York Presbyterian and Wertz is a professor of psychology, a psychotherapist and a researcher. Kenneth J. Doka, PhD., professor of gerontology at the Graduate School of the College of New Rochelle, will focus on spirituality in the afternoon keynote address.
Experts in the fields of social work, nursing, psychology, law, medicine and the ministry will address issues in their fields that involve family caregiving, children’s bereavement, young adults with cancer, health care costs and geriatrics, among other topics.
For more information, contact Cornelia Schimert at the Visiting Nurse Association of Hudson Valley at (914) 666-7616, Ext. 235, or
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or William Dawe at Hospice of Westchester at
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