BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:43c6a2dc64ee2fea04c3549a67ee39fb37 CATEGORIES:Conferences SUMMARY:Conference Session 5: Loss and Grief in Times of Disasters - Existential and Emotional Aspects of Being Mortal DESCRIPTION:
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Session Facilitator: Jennifer Sass er
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sion has been approved for 2 CME credits
*Accreditation Statement: This activity has been pl anned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies o f the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) throug h the joint providership of St. Charles Health System and Oregon Gerontolog ical Association (OGA). St. Charles Health System is accredited by the ACCM E to provide continuing medical education for physicians. St. Charles Healt h System designates this live activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Categ ory 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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Elizabeth Johnson holds a ma ster's degree in Community and Regional Planning from the University of Ore gon. Her work as a facilitator and experiential educator has brought her to more than 30 countries around the globe. This international exposure to a diversity of cultural and social contexts has sparked in her an appreciatio n for the importance of integrating all needs and voices into the fabric of a functional society, especially those of an aging population.
Eliza beth currently works as the Executive Director and an end of life doula for the Peaceful Presence Project, a nonprofit that seeks to help Central Oreg onians live well, age well and die well by reimagining the way the communit y talks about, plans for and experiences the last stage of life. She also w orks as the Central Oregon Lead for the Center for Age Friendly Excellence. She’s passionate about the integration of age inclusive initiatives into l ocal communities, as well as honest dialogues around the complexities of th e aging and dying process.
Summary:
Elizabeth' s presentation will focus on what it looks like to be a more death- a nd grief-literate culture (and individual) and why this matters, especially in the face of massive collective loss and trauma. She will discuss the ro le of an end-of-life doula in our communities and how their support can ass ist in the loss and grieving process. The presentation will address what is missing in our grieving process and what can we do about it.
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< img style="margin: 0px 10px; float: left;" src="/assets/images/2020_Speaker s/MagarillKera_2020.png" alt="" width="200" />Kera Magarill is an Older Adult Behavioral Specialist with Washington County Disability, Aging and Veteran Services. She has worked to support older adults and caregivers in a variety of residential, care and social service settings for over 18 years.
She served as faculty and taught courses in Aging Services at Metropolitan State University and worked for the Alzheimer’s Association’s Colorado Chapter before moving to Oregon to serve in her current role as an Older Adult Behavioral Health Specialist with Washington County.
Ker a is passionate about battling the stigma of mental health and dementia in order to create a more age-friendly community. She holds a Masters Degree i n Human Services and has received certification in gerontology and dementia and special training in music therapy.
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Kera's presentation aims at encouraging us to talk about death and learn about life in the process. She will introduce the Death Café - an internat ional movement that focuses on the gathering of community (often strangers) into a safe space for conversation and connection regarding the topics of death, dying, and mortality.
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Deb orah Wardrop-Threadgill earned a BA in sociology from Rider Colleg e in New Jersey and went on to pursue many careers. She ultimately was led to the funeral industry in 1999, when she and her husband, Ron, opened a fu neral home with another couple in SE Portland. The partnership was dissolve d in 2004, and Deborah and Ron pursued other interests. A few years later p eople asked the Threadgills to return to the funeral industry because they did things so differently. In 2007, Deborah and Ron opened Threadgill’s Mem orial Services in Beaverton with the goal of raising the bar on how familie s were treated. They offer both conventional and non-conventional services such as green or natural burials; aqua cremation; family-directed home fune rals; and Living Funerals or a celebration of Life prior to death. They do their own transports of the deceased and, up until COVID-19, met with famil ies in the comfort of their homes to make arrangements. They were able to a djust their administrative processes quickly during the pandemic and conver ted to electronic documents.
In addition to being a licensed Funeral Service Practitioner, Deborah received training from Final Passages in Cali fornia as a Home Funeral Guide, aka Death Midwife. She educates families on how to keep their loved one at home and have a service there.
Debora h is passionate about end-of-life preparation and how end-of-life doulas ca n play a vital role in this process. She received end-of-life doula trainin g two years ago from INELDA (International End of Life Doula Association). She is also a member of NEDA (National End-of-Life Doula Alliance). Up unti l this last March, she held monthly meetings with other end-of-life doulas in the Portland area.
She received training as a Death Café facilitat or and has attended many death cafés.
Ron and Deborah also own the on ly Harley-Davidson motorcycle hearse in the Pacific Northwest; it is known as Your Last Ride.
Summary:
Deborah will share her experiences on how COVID-19 restrictions have impacted funeral service s and the traditions and rituals that are relied upon for the grieving proc ess. She will discuss how the opportunity of being creative and innovative may help eliminate the need to adhere to traditional, and sometimes obsolet e, funeral services which have turned many people off to the idea of having a service at all. She will also address how to find the silver linings of the COVID-19 restrictions, which may be the catalyst for reimagining funera ry practices of memorializing and honoring the dead.
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