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Wednesday, January 22, 2025 from 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. MST/Arizona
Who will communicate your wishes to healthcare providers if you can’t?
Advance care planning is for all adults, regardless of age and health status. Too often, these conversations are not had until there is a medical crisis – or not at all – and then it is too late. Advance directives allow you to convey your decisions about your health care wishes to family and healthcare professionals, to avoid confusion about unwanted medical interventions.
The Arizona Healthcare Directives Registry (AzHDR) is the new home for the statewide advance directive’s registry. It provides a secure location and ready access for your documents. In this webinar, you will learn to prepare directives. It will cover:
- Living Wills
- Healthcare Power of Attorney
- Mental Healthcare Power of Attorney
- Pre-Hospital Medical Care Directives
Complimentary advance directive forms will be made available. The information provided isfor educational purposes and not for legal advice.
Carla Sutter holds her master’s degree in social work and has spent her 30-plus year career helping clients whose needs are changing due to age or illness. She is an expert on end-of-life tools and conversations. Her current work at Contexture and the Arizona Healthcare Directives Registry has her engaging healthcare organizations, community agencies, and Arizonans on enhancing goal concordant care through advance care planning conversations and the resulting advance directive documents.
Wednesday, February 26, 2025 from 10:00 – 11:30 a.m. MST/Arizona
Can words heal? How can poetry become a medicine for the soul?
Venture into this realm of passionate prose to explore the healing benefits of reading and writing poetry, as well as how lingering with a poem can be used as an object of mindfulness.
The official inaugural Poet Laureate of Phoenix, Dr. Rosemarie Dombrowski, will lead a reading anddiscussion of poems that speak to our unique role and challenges as caregivers. You’ll engage in a fewbrief writing exercises with the option to share your words – if you choose. This promises to be anuplifting 90-minute workshop.
Dr. Rosemarie Dombrowski is the founding director of Revisionary Arts, a nonprofit that uses poetry to explore self-care and healing through poetry. Additionally, she’s the creator of Verses for Vets, a poetic medicine program for veterans at ASU, and she serves as the faculty editor of Grey Matter, the medical poetry journal at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix. Her work as a medical humanist and poet has been featured on the TEDx stage and NPR, and at the Mayo Clinic and Banner-University Medical Center-Phoenix.
“Dr. D” is a full-time caregiver to her 26-year-old son with nonverbal Autism, epilepsy, and other disabilities. She also was her mother’s caregiver while in hospice. Visit her work at www.revisionaryarts.org and www.rdpoet.com.
Thank you to everyone who joined us for this year’s Family Caregiver Virtual Symposium.
We are deeply grateful for our incredible speakers—Dr. Frances Marcus Lewis and Amy Cameron O’Rourke—who shared practical tools and strategies to navigate the caregiving journey. Special thanks to our moderator, Jayme West from KTAR 92.3 FM, for guiding these meaningful conversations.
A heartfelt thank you to our generous sponsors, Acadia Pharmaceuticals and Copperpoint Insurance. Your support helps us to provide our services free of charge.
Together, we are empowering caregivers to find connection, meaning, and hope on their journey.