Tough Conversations: Talking With Your Loved Ones About Death and Dying
Dr. Jessica Zitter
December 3, 2020

Please join us in conversation with nationally known physician / author and expert in palliative care, Dr. Jessica Zitter. Dr. Zitter will lead us through one of the most difficult yet important topics we should all be talking about with our physicians and our loved ones – how to be pro-active and planful as we approach the end of life.
 
Many of us have completed Advance Directives indicating our preferences around life-support machinery if our organs start to fail. But there is much more to “Advance Care Planning” than simply whether or not to use a ventilator. How can “life support” help, and how can it hurt? Isn’t it best to “give it a try?” What alternatives are there? What is the role of hospice, and what are its limitations?
 
Join us as we explore the many ways that we can maintain control over how we live our lives, all the way until the end. 

- Advance Directives: https://www.nhpco.org/advancedirective/
- POLST forms: https://polst.org/form-patients/
- Go Wish: http://gowish.org/
- Ethical Wills: https://www.nextavenue.org/what-heirs-want-even-more-money/
- Palliative care: https://getpalliativecare.org/
- Extreme Measures: https://jessicazitter.com/extreme-measures/
- Extremis: https://jessicazitter.com/extremis/
- Caregiver: A Love Story - caregiveralovestory.com
             Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtKTngulaI4
- Article by Dr. Zitter: Treated To Death- Pacific Standard


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