Category: Akron Law Events

Law, Love and Chocolate

The Akron Law Alumni Association and Akron Bar Association present:

Law, Love and Chocolate

February 18, 2010
5 – 7 p.m.
Akron Bar Offices

Local Celebrities will prepare sweet treats for attendees.  General Admission:  $10 in advance; $15 at the door.  For a list of participants, to register and more information please visit:
http://www.lawalum.uakron.edu/Page.aspx?pid=301

Hospice, Death, & Dying and Advanced Directives Program – Special Student Pricing

Hospice, Death, & Dying and Advanced Directives Program – Special Student Pricing

February 19th – Akron Bar Association

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:
Last year, 1.5 MILLION Americans received hospice services from over 4,000 hospice providers. Since 2001, the number of hospice patients has increased by 22 percent and the median length of stay of a hospice patient went from 20.5 days to 22 days. Hospice Care and the related Ethical and Legal Concerns of End-of-Life Care are increasingly becoming an important topic for discussion as more than 78 million Americans begin to turn 60 this decade.

Ethical Issues In Death And Dying

  • Ethical Issues at End of Life
  • Care and Comfort
  • Justice in End-of-Life Care

Legal Issues In Death And Dying

  • Decision Making and Communication
  • Advance Care Planning
  • Patient Self-Determination Act

Advance Directives And Medical Orders For Life Sustaining Treatment

  • Advance Directives
  • Living Wills
  • MOLST – (Proposed)

PRESENTERS:
Doug Cluxton, MA, LPC – Vice President for Education and Development
Ohio Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, Columbus, Ohio

COST TO PARTICIPANTS:

Social Work, Counseling, Nursing Continuing Education Credits: $75
(other than Legal) or seeking no credit

                (dual certificates – no extra cost)

                ·LSW  ·LPC  ·LMFT  ·CFLE  ·CFCS

Continuing Legal Education
Akron Law Alumni or Akron Bar Association Member $105
                Non-Alumni/Non-Member $130
                Cost includes three hours CLE (including one hour of Ethics)

$25 Current Akron Law student  – contact Michele Novachek at  330.972.8619  or manovac@uakron.edu