Posted on 11/09/2005 12:11:36 AM PST by BykrBayb
SEMINOLE – Death and dying, hospice, palliative care, advanced directives, living wills and bereavement are among the end-of-life issues to be presented by the Applied Ethics Institute of St. Petersburg College at the college’s Digitorium on the Seminole Campus on Thursday, Nov. 17, 7 to 9 p.m.
The free forum will be moderated by Mary Tittle, Ph.D., RN, College of Nursing, St. Petersburg College and begin with presentations from David A. Weiland, M.D., The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast; Patricia Thieleman, Ph.D., RN, College of Nursing, St. Petersburg College; and Hanna Osman, Ph.D., College of Public Health, University of South Florida. There will be a question and answer session after the presentation.
The institute is celebrating its 21st year of promoting the teaching of ethics at all levels of education, in business and the professions, in the community at large and on the Web, www.appliedethicsinstitute.org.
The campus is at 9200 113th St. N. Call the Applied Ethics Institute at 341-4335. Persons requiring accommodations should contact Linda Giar at 394-6289.
Now, only two evenings from now, another egg laid by the dragons of death will hatch in its lair. Hope somebody can step on it.
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I know we have freepers in that area. I hope some of them will bring fliers directing people to resources that allow them to retain their rights, instead of signing them away.
I hope they will ask tough questions.
And most of all, I hope they will expose the lies of the forced euthanasia movement.
http://www.nrlc.org/euthanasia/willtolive/
You can print out information directly from that website, and pass it out at the seminar.
New Prognostic Tool Helps Predict 6-Month Mortality in Advanced Dementia Patients
Boston researchers have created and validated a practical risk score for predicting 6-month mortality in nursing home patients with advanced dementia, according to their report in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
“Our risk score offers an improvement over existing prognostic guidelines used in this population because it is based on empiric data, has greater predictive power, and uses standardized, readily available MDS [Minimum Data Set] assessments,” write the investigators, led by Susan L. Mitchell, MD, of the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged Research and Training Institute and the Harvard Medical School, Boston.
The team conducted a retrospective cohort study of patients with advanced dementia admitted to all Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing facilities in New York (derivation cohort, n = 6799) and Michigan (validation cohort, n = 4631) during 1994-1998 and 1998-2000, respectively.
A mortality risk score based on 12 MDS factors associated with 6-month mortality risk identified in the derivation cohort was evaluated in the validation cohort. Six categories of risk of mortality within 6 months were calculated. The authors provide within their report a score sheet for estimating 6-month prognosis and stratifying patients into levels of risk.
When the researchers compared their risk score performance with that of the existing guideline for enrolling patients with a primary diagnosis of dementia into hospice — the cutoff point of 7c (nonambulatory) on the Functional Assessment Staging scale — their risk score was found to demonstrate better discrimination to predict 6-month mortality in these patients.
“Advanced dementia is an incurable, progressive condition for which palliation is often the primary goal of care, regardless of life expectancy,” state the authors. “High quality palliative care should be available to the large proportion of persons with advanced dementia who will be cared for in nursing homes.”
Source: “Estimating Prognosis for Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia,” Journal of the American Medical Association; June 9, 2004; 291(22):2734-2740. Mitchell S, Kiely D, Hamel M, et al; Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged Research and Training Institute; Department of Medicine and Division of Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; and Division on Aging, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
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Note from BB: These are the factors they use to determine if a patient suffering dementia will live less than 6 months, so they can be admitted to hospice where treatment for their condition is forbidden, and death becomes imminent.
My turn to throw up. Excuse me please!
I hope everybody reads your tag line, and takes it to heart. We need good men to do something.
BTT
Hi, BB -- thanks for finding and posting this info.
http://appliedethicsinstitute.org/
I read that page and find it bothersome that the same people who promote the death culture are forming alliance with troops in Iraq. (???)
But I find the whole event disturbing and really wish I could get there, take sea sick pills and bathe in Holy Water and show up.
It is tomorrow evening. Hope we get some feedback from somebody.
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