Twitter Chats on End of Life and Health Care

Want a chance to talk with health care and end-of-life professionals and peers from the comfort of your own home? We’ve compiled the list below of Twitter chats on a variety of health care and end-of-life topics. Through these regularly-scheduled chats, you can connect with professionals in the field as well as others like you interested in these topics, right through your Twitter account.

A Twitter chat is an interactive conversation via a Twitter hashtag, scheduled for a specific time.

If you’ve never joined a Twitter chat before, don’t be intimidated! Here are some simple steps for getting involved:

1. Go to tweetchat.com and sign up or sign in with your Twitter account.

2. Enter the chat name into the box between the hashtag (#) and the “Go” button.

3. Enter your greeting to let everyone know you’re there. The chat’s hashtag will be automatically added to the end of any tweets entered through TweetChat.

4. Follow along as messages come up on the page, and ask and answer questions to join the discussion. All of your messages entered through the chat will also appear in your regular Twitter feed.

For more tips, read my DIY Writing article on joining Twitter chats.

Twitter Chats on End of Life and Health Care

#drfuhrman, Wednesdays at 4-5 p.m. ET

Chat with Joel Fuhrman, M.D. (@DrFuhrman) a family physician, New York Times Bestselling author, and nutritional researcher specializing in preventing and reversing disease through nutrition. Dr. Fuhrman answers questions submitted through his website and some presented during the chat.

#ElderCareChat, e/o Wednesday at 1 p.m. ET

Denise Brown (@caregiving) of Caregiving.com and Michelle Seitzer (@Seniors4Living) of Seniors for Living co-moderate this bi-weekly chat on elder care issues. Read the transcript of last week’s chat.

#eolchat, Mondays at 8 p.m. CT

This discussion of end-of-life issues is moderated by Dr. Ann Beckershutte (@DrBeckerSchutte) and Andrew Lopez, RN (@nursefriendly). They’ll answer questions on advance directives, living wills, do not resuscitate orders and more.

#genchat, e/o Friday at 9 p.m. CT (schedule)

Chat about genealogy in this twice monthly chat on a variety of topics. Stephanie P. Fishman (@cornandcotton) of Corn and Cotton Genealogy, Terri O’Connell (@tracingmyfamily) of Finding Our Ancestors and Jen Baldwin (@ancestryjourney) of Ancestral Journeys moderate.

#hcsm, Sundays at 8 p.m. CT

Founded in 2009, Healthcare Communications and Social Media (HCSM) is the first and longest running global health care Twitter chat. Dana Lewis (@danamlewis) moderates the chat via @HealthSocMed. Learn more and see topics of upcoming chats healthsocmed.com.

Have you joined any of these Twitter chats before? What have you learned?