Archive for May 2014

Researchers from seven European countries are conducting a five-year, $8.5 million dollar study based on the Respecting Choices model, an evidence-based systematic approach to advance care planning. The researchers, pictured here, visited the home of Respecting Choices in La Crosse, Wisconsin last week to become trained as Respecting Choices Instructors, and to learn more about how…

“Caring for an aging loved one can be a complex journey of intimacy, high stress, opportunities for renewed relationships, and letting go,” says Debbie Fins, LICSW, certified geriatric care manager and President of Deborah Fins Associates, PC, our newest Honoring Choices Community Partner. She and Susan Ritz, a licensed occupational therapist and geriatric care manager,…

In the past few weeks I’ve had the opportunity to talk with, and to learn a great deal from Michele Clayborne,  the Administrator at Overlook Hospice & Palliative Care, Honoring Choices’ newest Community Partner. Interestingly these conversations have created for me one of those serendipitous times, when two conversations, with two people who operate in…

“How do we help adults start planning discussions about death and dying issues, and what tools do we need to do it? That was common question posed by clergy and lay people who came together from Episcopal, United Church of Christ, Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic, United Methodist Church, Unitarian Universalist, Presbyterian, Quakers faiths and more,…