Hospice & Palliative Care

Speaker:
Ashton Stewart, MPA 
Veteran Liaison and Cultural Sensitivity Outreach Coordinator
MJHS Hospice and Palliative Care

Purpose: This webinar will share current trends affecting aging veterans and their families and the complexities of securing supportive services. The webinar focuses on recent changes to Veterans Affairs (VA) policy for vulnerable veteran populations, survivor benefits, suicide ideation, and new research correlating veterans living with traumatic brain injury (TBI) or Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and dementia that redefines how clinicians can better support veterans as they age.

Objectives:

1. Describe the lasting effects of military trauma and how to recognize PTSD symptoms that can surface for the first time when a patient suffers from dementia.
2. Explain policy changes within the VA that have helped LGBTQ+ veterans who were wrongfully discharged from the military access health care benefits.
3. Discuss increased services available at the VA to support women, the fastest growing cohort of veterans. 

Target Audience: Primary care providers, nurse practitioners, palliative care specialists, pain specialists, registered nurses, advanced practice nurses, registered nurses with a specialty in palliative care/hospice, social workers, allied health professionals, fellows, residents, and medical students

Criteria for Successful Completion:

1. Attendance at entire session
2. Submission of completed evaluation form

Continuing Education Credits: 1.0

Continuing Education Accreditation

Physicians: The AAFP has reviewed MJHS 2025-2026 Interprofessional Webinar Series, and deemed it acceptable for AAFP credit. Term of approval is from 09/18/2025 to 08/31/2026. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This session Current Issues Affecting Veteran’s Health at End-of-Life is approved for 1.0 Live AAFP Elective credits.

Note: Physicians should contact their respective licensing boards and specialty certification boards about acceptance of AAFP Elective credits when attempting to satisfy CME credit requirements.

Nurses: The MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care is an approved provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Northeast Multistate Division Education Unit, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Social Workers: MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0242.

Fees:
Individual: Free (includes CME/CE certificate)
Group: Free (includes unlimited CME/CE certificates)

System Requirements for Computers and Mobile Devices:
https://support.goto.com/webinar/help/system-requirements

Disclosures
Ashton Stewart, MPA has no financial arrangements or affiliations with any commercial entities whose products, research, or services may be discussed in these materials. Any discussion of investigational or unlabeled uses of a product will be identified.

No Planning Committee Member has any disclosures.

Planning Committee Members
Myra Glajchen, DSW
Kerrianne P. Page, MD, HMDC
Joyce Palmieri, MS, RN, CHPN
Karen Richards, PhD, EdS