Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center to offer seminar on advanced care planning
College graduation, marriage and the birth of a child are moments in life people enjoy discussing.
"There are certain areas of life that are so easy to talk about. Talk about terminal illness or end of life and everyone becomes quiet," said Kathy Yeatman-Stock, a licensed clinical social worker at Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center's Robert and Beverly Lewis Family Cancer Care Center.
To help families broach difficult topics related to our older years the hospital's Cancer Care Center is offering a seminar titled "Do We Really Need To Talk About It?"
The free seminar will begin at 6:30 p.m. March 16 at the Robert and Beverly Lewis Family Cancer Care Center, 1910 Royalty Drive. Guests are asked to RSVP by calling 909-865-9858.
Putting off conversations about where we want to live in our golden years, about our health care, even our funeral arrangements until we are in crisis only make the situation more difficult, Yeatman-Stock said.
Making such decisions when family members can talk about their preferences is important.
"By talking when we're feeling well we can ask questions," Yeatman-Stock said.
The seminar is intended to educate attendees and provide resources to begin having conversations about advanced care planning and how to document ones wishes, she said.
"Advanced care planning is an on-going process," Yeatman-Stock said adding its something that should be revisited regularly in order to address changing situations such as living arrangements.
A person may decide he would prefer to live at home instead of moving to a retirement community but as the person ages he may needs some assistance at home to carry out daily activities, she said.
The better prepared families are the greater sense of peace and control everyone has, Yeatman-Stock said.
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