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Keynote and General Session Speakers:
The Best of the Best
The role of Keynote and General Session speakers is to set the tone for the entire meeting. The speakers seek to challenge their listeners, educate them and, most of all, inspire them.
Keynote and General Session speakers also help develop the theme that has been selected for each annual meeting. This year's theme relates to where the world of home care and hospice finds itself at the present time and what can be done to ensure it continues reach its potential.
Additionally, Keynote and General Session speakers try to remind attendees why they selected a career in the field of home care and hospice. They hope to reinforce in them a desire to continue to work in this crusade to improve the quality of life for the aged, infirm, disabled and dying in America.
Everyone needs validation that what they are doing is important and that the minutes of their lives are well spent. Keynote and General Session speakers can offer this especially when they themselves have lived through experiences which prepare them to do so.
Hemingway said it best, Life breaks us all but the lucky grow stronger in the mended places. The same sentiment was expressed by Mother Teresa who said, Choose always the hardest way. There is joy in transcending self in order to serve others. The most important of all criteria in selecting speakers is their conformity with the highest values. People are more likely to listen to those who have a reputation for being consistent in thought, word and deed.
This years speakers rank very high on all the above criteria. Being in their company is a great honor as is the opportunity to learn from them. The Keynote and General Session speakers for 2005 are listed below beginning with the opening general session at 3:00 pm on Sunday, October, 23, and proceeding through Monday morning October 24, and Tuesday, October 25. The Annual Meeting concludes at Wednesday morning's Closing General Session.
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