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2008 Geriatric Conference Tells Professionals about Geriatric Care, Laws, Special Programs, and Much More February 22 - February 23, 2008 see more on the conference and a link to the brochure
Latest entries in our list of helpful Internet links- A Housing Safety Checklist for Older Adults from the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service Listed on April 15, 2008 - CNN reviews new book on life and death by college English professor David Shields - it's called The Thing about Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead. It's about his father, his thoughts about carpe diem, and about why we have trouble talking about death, sometimes. [Knopf, 2008] From the review: "But Shields is cold-eyed when it comes to mortality itself. Death may be an immovable, incontrovertible truth of life, but it remains an often taboo subject in our society, he observes."
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Advance Care Planning Plan in advance of a crisis for your care should you become incapacitated. Here are some questions to answer and keep at hand for friends or relatives if you need them to take care of your affairs for a little while. If something should happen to you and you couldn't talk, who should be called? Who is your primary care doctor? What is the doctor's phone number? Do you have a living will? If so, where is it located? Who is your lawyer? Do any of your family or friends know what you want to happen if you become fatally ill or are in an accident where you couldn't express your wishes? If you are not able to live by yourself any longer, is there a senior living or nursing home you would prefer? If you become incapacitated beyond hope of medical recovery, do you want to be entubated or resuscitated? At what point do you want those caring for your medical condition to let nature have its way?
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