Understanding Dementia

Kick off 2014 with a strong start to your continuing education needs and join BrightStar Care and Great Lakes Caring on Jan. 15, 2014, for a free CEU program. “Understanding Dementia” will enable you to identify symptoms, explain various causes, describe behavioral and physiological symptom and describe patient-centered care for those with dementia.
What: Understanding Dementia, a free CEU program
Who: Sarah Thurston, LMSW, of Great Lakes Caring
When: Jan. 15, 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Where: Services for Older Citizens, 158 Ridge Rd., Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236
For questions, please contact:
ANNE MARIE GATTARI
PRESIDENT
BrightStar of Grosse Pointe / Southeast Macomb
22811 Greater Mack Ave., St. 204
St. Clair Shores, MI 48080
P 586 279 3610 | F 888 730 4026
am.gattari@brightstarcare.com
http://www.brightstarcare.com/grosse-pointesoutheast-macomb

Do-Not-Resuscitate order.

There is an important document which you and your loved one should complete in the presence of your physician if you want to avoid CPR (cardio-pulmonary resuscitation) or other life support when an ambulance (911) is called. It is the Do-Not-Resuscitate order. Some people with serious and irreversible conditions do not want an emergency medical team to give them CPR if their heart stops or they stop breathing. If the emergency medical team sees the proper bracelet or document upon arrival, you can expect to receive all necessary comfort care—but not life support.

Click here to go to the Do Not Resuscitate form

Designation of Patient Advocate Form

Here is a copy of the Designation of Patient Advocate Form prepared by the State Bar Association of Michigan. This is an important legal document. You should discuss it with your doctor and attorney if you have questions. After completing it, you should keep the original copy, as well as the original copy of the Tool Kit, some place they can be easily found. Copies of them should be given to your proxy and your medical care professional. If entering a hospital or nursing home, take copies of them with you and ask that they be placed in your medical record.

Click here for form

Patient Advocacy: Tool Kit

This could be an opportune time to have—or at least start--the important conversation re. making a health care advanced directive (such as living will or durable power of attorney for health care).

This is a Tool Kit prepared by the Commission on Law and Aging to help you have this conversation in an effective way. It does not create a formal advanced directive for you. Instead, it helps you to do the much harder job of discovering, clarifying, and communicating what is important to you or your loved one in the face of serious illness. Please see the self-help worksheets, suggestions, and resources.


Click here for the link

Presentation: Intoduction to Pain