Description:
This program is designed to assist the learner in understanding the differences between sadness and depression. The speaker discusses the demographics of depression among distinct populations providing hospice staff and volunteers identifiable risk factors for depression in patients at the end of life. Symptoms and treatments for depression are also examined.

The learner will be able to:

1. Discuss the difference between sadness and depression.
2. Describe the demographics of depression among distinct populations.
3. List at least two risk factors as well as causes of depression in the dying.
4. Identify at least one symptom and associated treatment option for managing depression in the dying.

* CNE credits provided by the Home Care Association of Louisiana, an approved provider by the Louisiana State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

*** Hospice Education Network is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Massachusetts Association of Registered Nurses, Inc., an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

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