Comfort and Care of Patients and Families through Palliative and Hospice Care

Recorded on 4/22/2025
With Laura Kanofsky, LCSW

Join CSCLA for a webinar on 1) understanding palliative care and its benefits, 2) understanding hospice care (including how it differs from palliative care, common misperceptions), and 3) when is it time for hospice, how it works, services provided to patients, support available to families and caring circles.

About the presenter: Laura Kanofsky is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Board-Certified Music Therapist. She has worked in hospice care for 18 years and is currently working with Dynamic Hospice as a social worker, music therapist, and co-facilitator of their bereavement support group. Her professional experience spans many clinical settings and populations, including inpatient and outpatient psychiatry, community mental health, schools, and an ongoing private practice of 25 years.

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About Cancer Support Community Los Angeles: Cancer Support Community Los Angeles (CSCLA) provides services - at no cost - to ensure that all people impacted by cancer are empowered by knowledge, strengthened by action, & sustained by community.

For more information about CSCLA, call 310-314-2555 or visit cancersupportla.org

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Disclaimer: Reference in this program to any specific commercial product, process, or service, or the use of any trade, firm or corporation name is for the information and convenience of the recipient, and does not constitute endorsement, recommendation, or favoring by the Cancer Support Community.