Community education
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Hosparus, through its Hosparus Education and Volunteer Center, offers a speakers bureau for community education.
Speakers' Bureau. Our Speakers' Bureau sends informed Hosparus speakers to civic organizations, faith communities and health care organizations. Topics include:
- What is hospice care?
- When is it time for hospice?
- Basics of pain management.
- Advance directives.
- Caregiver support.
- Dealing with loss and grief.
- The faces of Alzheimer's and dementia.
- Cultural diversity and end-of-life care.
- Questions about artificial nutrition and hydration at the end of life.
- Communicating with the person who has Alzheimer's.
- End-of-life needs related to specific diseases.
Would you like a speaker for your group? For a speaker to come to your group, contact the person in your area:
Louisville and surrounding communities
Stephanie Smith
Director of Communications
Hosparus Foundation
3532 Ephraim McDowell Dr
Louisville, KY 40205
719-8925 or (800) 264-0521
Fax: (502) 458-2166
Central Kentucky
Annette Oller
Manager, Hospital/Community Partners
Hosparus - Hospice of Central Kentucky
105 Diecks Drive
P.O. Box 2149
Elizabethtown, KY 42702
(270) 737-6300 or (800) 686-9577
Fax: (270) 737-4053
Southern Indiana
Darrell Lewis
Manager, Community Outreach
Hosparus - Hospice of Southern Indiana
624 E. Market Street
New Albany, IN 47150
(812) 945-4596 or toll free 1-800-895-5633
Fax: (812) 945-4733
