{"id":41509,"date":"2016-10-13T13:22:08","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T17:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=41509"},"modified":"2016-10-13T13:22:08","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T17:22:08","slug":"hospice-niagara-brings-end-of-life-discussion-to-brock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/10\/hospice-niagara-brings-end-of-life-discussion-to-brock\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospice Niagara brings End of Life discussion to Brock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Brock&#8217;s Health Management department in Human Resources is hosting a presentation from Hospice Niagara about death, dying and end of life care.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Hospice Niagara says 83 per cent of <\/span><span class=\"s1\"> Canadians feel it is either extremely or very important to have a discussion with family about end-of-life care, but that only 34 per cent\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">have actually had those discussions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Brock faculty, staff and students are\u00a0invited to\u00a0the presentation Thursday, Oct. 20 from noon to 1 p.m. in Plaza 408 where\u00a0volunteer speakers from the Hospice Niagara Speakers Bureau will present a fun, engaging and interactive presentation that will de-bunk myths about death and dying. They will also explain the philosophy of hospice palliative care and how Hospice Niagara focuses on improving the lives of people living with long-term illnesses, death, dying, grief and loss.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Those wishing to attend are asked to register on <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/hr\/training\/focus\/courses.php?cid=1846\"><span class=\"s4\">Focus on Learning<\/span><\/a><\/span><span class=\"s1\">. Limited spaces are available.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock&#8217;s Health Management department in Human Resources is hosting a presentation from Hospice Niagara about death, dying and end of life care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[3393,1040,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}