The Parish Nurse Ministry team will be hosting a Speaker Series to educate, enlighten and empower ourselves while deciphering the many decisions as we age. Whether it be the medical, legal or spiritual realm, things are changing constantly which can be as confusing as it is difficult to keep up! Do you have as many questions as we do? If so, please join us!
We offer you …… Compassionate Care for Ourselves and Those we Love: Burden or Blessing; a series of Speakers who will bring their own expertise, experience and personal journeys on questions such as:
- Theology on end of life care
- Ethical decisions in the medical environment
- Respecting choices
- Advanced directives
- Health care proxy
- Palliative vs Hospice Care
- Legal questions pertaining to Elder Care, Special Needs Trusts, estate planning and probate to name a few.
- Celebration of Life Planning from funeral planning perspective.
We begin our series with a team from the Department of Spiritual Care at St. Francis Hospital Trinity Health of New England: Michael Rogers, PhD – Mission Integration Consultant; The Rev. Heather McDougall-Walsh, BCC, CCISM – Manager of Spiritual Care, and The Rev. Dr. Celillon Alteme, MACE, MDiv, DMin, ACPE, BCC – Manager of Clinical Pastoral Education.
See below for the livestreams of these events, join us as we journey to seek answers all the while maintaining our spiritual, ethical and personal choices.
October 24, 2024 at 6:30 pm
There were technical difficulties with the livestream for this event. For an outline of the speaker’s presentation, please click here.
November 14, 2024 at 6:30 pm
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November 21, 2024 at 6:30 pm
The Parish Nurse Ministry presents the next lecture in our Compassionate Care series.The presenter for this week is Attorney John “Jay” Kearns III from Kearns and Kearns PC Attorney at Law.
Attorney Kearns is a special Needs Trust Lawyer from West Hartford who focuses on Elder Law,Estate and Probate Law and other Long Term Care issues.
He is a Connecticut native.He has authored and co-authored several articles in the Connecticut Lawyer and the magazine of the Connecticut Bar Association.He has been quoted in Modern Maturity,Business Week, Money and Kiplinger and has appeared on CNN,NBC,CNN Radio and the Wall Street Journal Network for his insight into long term care issues.
Please join us for this informational and educational session.We encourage you to join us in person in order to ask questions and interact with the speaker. For those who are unable to attend in person a Live Stream option will be available.