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Friday, October 7, 2011: 4:15 PM-5:15 PM
Primary Presenter:
Kathryn D. Marocchino, PhD, FT
Co-Presenter:
Sharen Meyers, LCSW
Learning Objectives:
1. Describe the growing demand for this service and how it can be met
2. Define animal hospice, its history and its integral connection to human hospice
3. Explain how human hospice programs stand to gain from animal hospice and why a mutually beneficial partnership is ideal
This session will introduce participants to the animal hospice movement which has been growing for the past 15 years, largely driven by positive human hospice experience. It will explain the animal hospice history, explore the challenges of developing hospice protocol for animals and discuss ways to deepen colloboration between animal and human hospice programs that is mutually benefical in a culture of need and economic uncertainity.
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