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Seminar Title: Understanding The Needs of the Dying -- Bringing Hope, Comfort & Love to Life's Final Chapter (with NEW Information on Palliative Care and End-of-Life Cultural Competency)

General Overview

Based on his years of experience and intensive study, David Kessler brings us a one-day seminar featuring invaluable insight to help us in our work with the dying and their families.

Renowned author of The Needs of the Dying, David is also co-author (with the legendary Elisabeth Kubler-Ross) of the recently-released On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss and their earlier book, LIFE LESSONS: two experts on death and dying teach us about the mysteries of life and living.

Topics for Inclusion

   1. The needs of the dying
   2. The importance of hope and miracles for the family
   3. How cultural differences affect our care for the dying
   4. Palliative Care and Hospice
   5. Helping patients make good decisions regarding advance directives and dealing with code status in the hospital
   6. Helping the dying patient's children
   7. The question of assisted suicide
   8. Compassion fatique - a poignant problem for those working with dying patients

About the preesenter:
David Kessler is getting to be one of the most well known experts on hospice and end-of-life care today by reaching hundreds of thousands of people through his books.

David's other book with the legendary Elisabeth Kübler-Ross is LIFE LESSONS: two experts on death and dying teach us about the mysteries of life and living.

His first book, now in a 10th Anniversary Edition, THE NEEDS OF THE DYING: a guide for bringing hope, comfort and love to life's final chapter is often at the top of the best-sellers list in its area and is becoming a classic. It received unprecedented praise by Mother Teresa a few months before her death. It has now been published in over 11 countries worldwide.

David has helped thousands of men, women and children face life and death with peace, dignity and courage. His experiences have taken him from Auschwitz concentration camp to Mother Teresa's Home for the Dying Destitute in Calcutta. His services have been used by Elizabeth Taylor, Jamie Lee Curtis and Marianne Williamson when their loved ones faced life challenging illnesses. He also worked with Anthony Perkins, Michael Landon and industrialist Armand Hammer when they faced their own deaths.

He is no stranger to disaster and trauma. He has worked on disasters with mass casualties, loss and grief. As a volunteer, he has served as member of the Red Cross's Aviation Disaster team and was called in to help with the Aspen plane crash. He also worked with the next of kin as well as the survivors on the Singapore Airlines crash. David also volunteers his time as a Special Reserve Police Officer for the Los Angeles Police Department's trauma team. On top of his expertise in grief and loss, the Red Cross and the Los Angeles Police Department have trained him for the most critical, tragic and horrific situations possible, which, of course, included 9/11 and Ground Zero.

David takes his experiences and turns them into inspiring and motivational lectures for audiencesaround the world. He also teaches therapists, doctors, nurses, chaplains and fire dept. personnel on grief and loss and leads a support group for people with cancer. In his daily work, he is Vice President of Patient Care Support Services for Citrus Valley Health Partners, which has three hospitals and home hospice as well as a freestanding in-patient hospice unit in the Los Angeles area with over 900 physicians and 2000 nurses. In this capacity, David oversees palliative care services, pastoral care and the Cultural Competency Resource Center.

In one of their final writing sessions, On Death and Dying author, Kübler-Ross told Kessler, "The last nine years have taught me patience, and the weaker and more bed bound I become, the more I'm learning about receiving love."

David's coauthoring On Grief and Grieving with Elisabeth Kübler-Ross is her final legacy, one that brings her life's work profoundly full circle. David considers it an honor and privilege to have worked so closely with Elisabeth and to be with her in her passing.

His work has been discussed in the "Los Angeles Times", the "New York Times", "Business Week" and "Life Magazine", and has been featured on CNN-Cross Fire, NBC, MSNBC, PBS, "Entertainment Tonight" and "Sally Jessy Raphael". He has written articles on end of life care for the Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. For more information visit http://www.davidkessler.org/