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new home Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine Oklahoma Palliative Care Resource Center
Doctors Urge Focus on Geriatrics
Palliative Care: The Relief You Need When You're Experiencing the Symptoms of Serious Illness,
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3rd Annual Bioethics Conference November 6, 2009, was an overwhelming success. If you missed it click below to watch the video !
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"World Hospice & Palliative Care Day", Oct. 10 is extended due to overwhelming response !
The Oklahoma Palliative Care Resources Blog celebrates "World Hospice & Palliative Care Day" with "Ask the Professor". Annette Prince, J.D., Clinical Assistant Professor at the Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center Department of Family Medicine, will address questions and comments regarding Oklahoma laws relating to planning for medical treatment in advance of incapacity. Click here to join us.
This discussion does not take the place of consultation with an attorney regarding unique circumstances in an individual situation or case.
Medical File Aids Emergency Care for Seniors, more . . .
POLST form adopted by OU Medical Center more . .
Oklahoma Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies, Impacting Women's Health, Improving Infant Lives. . .more
Perinatal hospice offers resources to parents
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U.S. Senate introduces Advance Planning and Compassionate Care Act of 2009.
Advance Directive and Advance Care Planning Report to Congress.
FREE National Healthcare Decisions Day Conference Videos now available for download.
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FREE Bioethics Videos Now Available for staff training more information . . .
Patient Abuse Hurts Health Providers too
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Your Right to Decide: Oklahoma's Advance Directive & Other Health Care Planning Tools Consumer's Guide
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Caring for Patients with Diminished Capacity, a Guide for Health Professionals.
Calm Waters is a support center for children whose lives have been changed by death or divorce
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A Place to Turn When a Newborn Is Fated to Die
By NEELA BANERJEE
Families whose babies suffer from fatal conditions are turning to specialized hospice programs for help.
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It is "HOPE"!
The Institute of Medicine (1997) defined palliative care as care which ". . .seeks to prevent, relieve, reduce, or soothe the symptoms of disease or disorder without affecting a cure."
Palliative care is medical treatment that is directed to "care" for the physical, spiritual and psychological needs of patients and support for their caretakers.
Palliative care should be available to both adults and children early in the course of any medical treatment, and particularly in treatment of serious, chronic illness.
It should be provided alongside any medical treatment intended to "cure" illness and continued to provide quality of life "care" when there is no cure.
Palliative care is the response to a patient's and family's hope for effective pain management and emotional comfort from physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains and other health providers who never stop caring, who never give up on comfort, who always put the patient first. Palliative care is the "good news" in difficult times of serious, chronic illness.
Palliative care is not restricted to those who are dying. 
It is not focused on curing the disease but provides medical treatment directed to the physical, spiritual and psychological needs of patients and those who care for them. Palliative care should be available to both adults and children early in the course of any medical treatment, and particularly in treatment of serious, chronic illness.
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"Oklahoma Advance Directives: What You Need to Know"
Presentation and supporting documents by Linda Edmondson M.S.W., L.C,S,W.
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Special Report by Betty Ferrell, OU Grad, on spiritual care as part of palliative care, more . . .
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The Secretary of HHS sent a comprehensive report to Congress entitled “Advance Directives and Advance Care Planning.” The report, requested by Congress in 2006, focuses on (1) the best ways to promote the use of advance directives and advance care planning among competent adults as a way to specify their wishes about end-of-life care; and (2) addressing the needs of persons with disabilities with respect to advance directives. You can link to the report at: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/2008/ADCongRpt.htm It includes an excellent literature review on every aspect of advance care planning, analyses of key ethical and legal issues, and a discussion of opportunities to enhance the effectiveness of advance care planning and advance directives.
The report is particularly timely as health care reform is in the public policy forefront, and several bills are pending on the Hill regarding advance care planning and improving care near the end of life.
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New Blog for Bioethics/Palliative Care Issues Discussion
http://bioethicscenter.blogspot.com
Missouri “Practical Bioethics Center Blog” Raises Ethical Questions
- Perception Versus Reality: The Facts Regarding Prosecutions and Disciplining of Doctors For Abuses Involving Controlled Substances, NAAGazette, September 24
- Study Finds Few Pain Doctors Face Criminal Prosecutions, New York Times, September 20
- Building an Aging Friendly Community, October 24, 2008,
Address inquiries to:
Annette Prince, Director
Oklahoma Palliative Care Resource Center
Ok-palliative@ouhsc.edu
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