Learn How Graduating High School May Extend Your Life – The Link Between Education and Dying
Completion Time
1 hourAvailable Until
February 28, 2025Posted By
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Overview
Specialties
Acute Care, Ambulatory Care, Cardiology, Chemical Dependency, Correctional Nursing, Educational/Research, Geriatrics, Hematology / Oncology, Holistic Nursing, Hospice / Palliative, Mental Health, Other, Psychiatric, and School HealthClinical Topics
Acute Heart Failure, Acute Myocardial Infarction, Breast Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease, Colon Cancer, Dementia, Geriatric Medicine, Health Literacy, Kidney Disease, Mental Health, Obesity, Patient Outcomes, Stroke, and Women's HealthDid you know that people with higher education tend to live longer than those with least education? The death gap related to education is not necessarily between college grads and non-grads, but primarily between high school dropouts and graduates. Estimates suggest that promoting education to reduce health disparities could save 8 times more lives than could be saved through medical advances in drugs and devices.
Learning Objectives
- Live well and die well
- Learn so you can plan and plan so your death can be consistent with your values
- Every day is a gift (closing line of every podcast)
- Death is not optional. Since you must do it, learn all you can so you can do it your way.
Speakers
Podcast Host and Education Director: Everyone Dies
Adjunct Professor:
University of Maryland Global Campus
Marianne Matzo earned her PhD (1996) in Gerontology. As a certified advanced gerontological nurse practitioner (and previously certified as an advanced practice nurse practitioner in oncology and palliative care), she has dedicated her 46-year career in nursing to pain and symptom management for people living with incurable illnesses. Her award-winning Palliative Care Nursing textbook (with Dr. Deb Sherman) is now in its fifth edition. She has taught palliative care principles all over the world and many of her academic publications have been translated into Japanese, Russian, and Italian. A retired university professor Marianne is now focusing on community education regarding dying and death.
Disclosures
Everyone Dies is a 501c (3) nonprofit organization. Our mission is to provide public education regarding serious illness, dying, death, and bereavement with the goal of changing the culture of dying and death in the United States through education.
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