Caring Conversations: Advance Healthcare Planning

Community Issues Forum

Caring Conversations: Advance Healthcare Planning and National Healthcare Decisions Day

Caring Conversations: Advance Healthcare Planning
Tuesday, April 6, 2:00 P.M. (Cancelled)
Corinth Library
Please note: The April 6 program at Corinth has been cancelled due to low registration.

Thursday, April 8, 7:00 P.M.
Central Resource Library, Carmack Community Room
Registration begins March 1st by calling (913) 495-9100 for both locations.

Have you thought about what would happen if you were no longer able to make or communicate your own healthcare decisions due to serious injury or illness? In conjunction with National Healthcare Decisions Day, Dr. George Flanagan from the Center for Practical Bioethics will speak about end-of-life care planning and creating advance directives. Caring Conversations workbooks, designed to help people discuss and document healthcare decisions, will be available

National Healthcare Decisions Day
Friday, April 16, 1:00 P.M.
Central Resource Library, Gallery area

hands April 16, 2010 is National Healthcare Decisions Day (NHDD), a nationwide event which highlights the importance of advance healthcare decision-making. NHDD organizers are encouraging organizations and individuals throughout the country to help raise awareness of advance care planning on this special day—and throughout the year.

Johnson County Library and Saint Luke’s Hospital will be observing this day with an event at the Central Resource Library on Friday, April 16, 2010 from 1 – 5 p.m. Saint Luke's Health System Staff as well as legal and financial experts will be on hand to answer end-of-life questions, help with learning more about the uses of the Durable Medical Power of Attorney and Advance Directives, explain how families facing difficult healthcare decisions can get help, and assist with the completion of Advance Directives for those who would like to do so.

Reccomended Reading:

Printable Booklist on End of Life Issues

Recommended Reading on End of Life Issues

Living Well In A Nursing Home: Everything You And Your Folks Need To Know Lynn Dickinson, M.A., 2006

The authors take a positive look at nursing homes, and offer sound advice for children having to make that choice for their parents.

reviews (0) Location: 362.16 Dickinso 2006

Death And Dying Sourcebook: Basic Consumer Health Information Joyce Brennfleck Shannon, 2006

Information about end-of-life perspectives, with special sections on caregiver concerns, and children and death. Facts, statistics, and contact information for support groups.

reviews (0) Location: 362.175 Death (2006)

Unplugged: Reclaiming Our Right to Die In America William H. Colby, 2006

Colby’s judicious insights are used to examine the law and policies which combine to ignore patients’ and their families’ wishes in light of persistent vegetative states.

reviews (0) Location: 179.7 Colby 2006

The end-of-life handbook: a compassionate guide to connecting with and caring for a dying loved one David B. Feldman, 2007

This is a practical guide to the physicality of deaht, as well as the emotional dimension for both patient and caregiver.

reviews (0) Location: 616.029 Feldman

To die well: your right to comfort, calm and choice in the last days of life Sidney H. Wanzer, 2007

The author describes patient rights, methods for hastening death and provides legal forms for end of life issues.

reviews (0) Location: 179.7 Wanzer 03/2007

The Needs Of The Dying: A Guide For Bringing Hope, Comfort, and Love to Life's Final Chapter David Kessler, 2007

Using comforting and touching stories, the author provides information to help readers meet the needs of a loved one at this important time.

reviews (0) Location: 155.937 Kessler 06/2007

Caring For The Dying: Critical Issues At The Edge Of Life Robert C. Baird, 2003

Covering the hospice movement, palliative care issues, spiritual care, and legal issues, these essays provide information and thoughtful discussion of major questions dealing with the end of life.

reviews (0) Location: 362.175 Caring 2003