Your Healthcare Choices: Connecting Through Conversations

Your Healthcare Choices: Connecting Through Conversations At any age, a medical condition could leave you too ill to make healthcare decisions. This page will We never know what may happen to us on any given day.

Advance Care Planning is the process of learning about the types of medical care that you may or may not want. If you are ever in a situation that may leave you too ill to make medical decisions for yourself, it’s important for you to have a conversation about what your wishes are while you are able to do so. Part of this process includes creating an advance medical directive which allows you to name someone to speak for you if you become too ill to make them yourself. EVERYONE is encouraged to complete an advance medical directive and periodically update them throughout your lifetime. I am a mother of two young children and have been an ICU nurse for the past 12 years. I have held many hands and wiped many tears of family members and loved one who were asked to make very difficult decisions without ever having a conversations about what their loved one would want. I have created this page to provide you with some great resources, videos, educational materials, and conversation tools to encourage you to start this important process of advance care planning. Give your loved ones this gift of know what your wishes are, and take the burden off their shoulders. Please share your stories, ask questions, and let us learn from each other. This page is only for informational and educational purposes only. This information is not intended to be and does not constitute medical advice. If you have specific questions, please ask your health care provider.

09/26/2020

Dr. Barraza talks about how we address death in our culture and the medical field. Dr. Barraza is the medical director of Munson Palliative Medicine in Trave...

09/20/2020

In a Dementia Friends session, we’ll discuss what it is like to live with dementia and offer practical steps we can all take to help those with dementia navigate their daily lives safely. Catch our next virtual session on Thursday, October 1st from 3:00-4:30 pm, further details, and registration info below!

03/22/2020

Five wishes now FREE online.
If you are a Michigan resident you will need:
1) 2 unrelated witnesses to your signature (does not require notary)
2) your designated patient advocates must sign an acceptance of their responsibility.

If you have more questions, please contact me!! I can offer virtual assistance 😊

The time has never been more pertinent!

“the choices we prefer when we're healthy may no longer make sense to us when we're actually confronting death.”
01/07/2020

“the choices we prefer when we're healthy may no longer make sense to us when we're actually confronting death.”

Many of us believe we know how we'd choose to die. We have a sense of how we'd respond to a diagnosis of an incurable illness. This week, we have the story of one family's decades-long conversation about dying. What they found is that the people we are when death is far in the distance may not be th...

01/07/2020

Many of us believe we know how we'd choose to die. We have a sense of how we'd respond to a diagnosis of an incurable illness. This week, we have the story of one family's decades-long conversation about dying. What they found is that the people we are when death is far in the distance may not be th...

Hope.... love this mans work ❤️
12/04/2019

Hope....
love this mans work ❤️

When dealing with a serious or terminal illness, palliative care physician and TEDMED 2018 speaker, Steve Pantilat reminds us that “even in the midst of chaos there is hope”.  However, this kind of hope is different than the hope that the person will recover or....

12/01/2019

Losing a loved one is hard enough. Had I known his death was so near, I would have been more prepared — and more gentle.

12/01/2019

We no longer feel comfortable naming death, and we’ve forgotten how to support the dying and bereaved, says palliative care physician Kathryn Mannix

There’s no need for doctors or nurses to torture anyone.... have conversations with the ones who want “everything” done.
11/30/2019

There’s no need for doctors or nurses to torture anyone.... have conversations with the ones who want “everything” done.

Procedures can be so rough on frail bodies that patients may have even lived longer without them.

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