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We give more thought to planning a Super Bowl party than we do to our end of life care. It’s a topic most of us avoid but one that can cause terrible stress, family friction and legal battles if our survivors are left to guess about our final wishes. That’s why it’s important to formally record the care you want at the end of life.
Free documents are available on the internet. http://www.projectgrace.org and http://www.agingwithdignity.org are just two sources.
You can make your wishes as simple or as detailed as necessary. But it’s not enough to just tell your spouse or life partner what you want. You need to write down your instructions and share them with your family members, close friends and physicians.
To help begin a discussion of end of life planning, Hyde Park United Methodist Church is sponsoring a free program fasciliated by the Duke University Institute on Care at the End of Life. A brief program of dramatized role playing will set the stage for a presentation followed by questions and answers led by the Institute’s Director, Dr. Richard Payne. Find out how to ask the tough questions, how to seek alternatives and how to ensure that your wishes are carried out if you are not able to speak for yourself in the face of a terminal illness.
The Institute on Care at the End of Life at Duke University, LifePath Hospice and Hospice of the Florida Suncoast, and Hyde Park United Methodist Church invite you to attend this community-centered discussion about our end-of-life decisions.
Thursday, May 8, 2008, 6:30pm until 8:30pm, The Magnolia Building, Hyde Park United Methodist Church, 500 West Platt Street, Tampa, FL 33606.
For more information contact Karen Mess Frashier, LifePath Hospice, 813-871-8235, .
Posted by Iris Fleat, Carrollwood Care Center Tampa 960-1969 on 05/24 at 09:00 PM
AsI had said I have questions that I need answers too. 1. when people become elderly they seem to return to a baby stage-like being wheeled around in their wheel-chair-why/Putting their hands in their mouths and chewing them. Taking off their clothes. I am very interested in alzheimer and dementia. Does old school houses with lead paint plus ourhomes had lead in thepaint plus real lead in pencils does that increase alzheimer in the elderly. Or mercury put in tooth cavities. Or allthe beads used for circuses ,parades etc.
Posted by Iris Fleat, Carrollwood Care Center Tampa on 05/17 at 08:25 PM
I Never thought about a living will,I guessI was afraid of death. But then I had a massive stroke at 60. I am now 70 and made a living will,to not only tell my doctor and facility,but my family what to do when the inevible happens. I do not know if I WILLHAVE ANOTHER STROKE OR HEART ATTACK or any of the many diseases that attack the elderly.like alzheimer or dementia. Life is very short-Iseeit every day. I HAVE many more questions,should I WRITE YOU for answers/
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Posted by Ralph Lepley, Statesville, NC 28625 on 06/16 at 05:02 PM
I am the new Director of Clergy & Congregational Care for The Samaritan Institute’s Carenet Counseling Center in Statesville. I’ll be attending a gathering in Denver in late July, 2008.
We’ll be discerning ways to nurture, support, encourage and strengthen clergy, churches, medical professionals, grieving families and others involved in end-of-life issues.
Thank you for all your ideas, insights, observations, comments and recommendations which you may wish to share with us. Peace & Grace, Ralph Lepley, (828) 428-8373, Fax (828) 428-0940, (828) 381-9556