Center for Healthy Aging to host seminar on 'Spirituality and End-of-Life Care'

Fort Worth, TX

8/31/2007

TCU's Center for Healthy Aging and Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences is hosting a seminar on "Spirituality and End of Life Care: Compassionate Response to Essential Needs" on Monday, September 10 from 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Speaker Dr. Betty Kramer, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, will discuss end-of-life care giving in the Dee J. Kelly Alumni Center on the TCU campus. Cost is free to attend. CNE credits are available to nurses and CEU credits for social workers.

Dr. Kramer is a recipient of two national awards, the John A. Hartford Foundation Geriatric Social Work Faculty Scholar Award and the Project on Death in America Social Work Leadership Development Award. Her lecture will focus on how to better understand, assess and intervene to address spiritual issues. In 2006, Dr. Kramer and Nancy Hooyman completed the first evidence-based textbook regarding grief and bereavement entitled Living Through Loss: Interventions Across the Life-Span.

Please RSVP to Laurie Burton at L.E.Burton@tcu.edu. For more information on the Center for Healthy Aging, visit www.harriscollege.tcu.edu.