Dear Friends,
I hope you enjoyed a cozy and heartfelt holiday season! I feel very blessed for the time spent with family and friends. I want you to know that we spent several hours in the afternoon of Christmas Eve with my son and daughter-in-law conversing about our advance care plans and wishes. We used the new
MyCare document as our guide and found it very helpful. Tears and laughter abounded and our already close relationship became even more intimate! Our lovely millenials took their
MyCare documents home, with a greater understanding of the importance of these conversations.
Wishing you all a warm and wonderful New Year.
-Susan Plummer
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BJ Miller at UCSB Arts & Lectures
January 11
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Dr. BJ Miller is leading the way toward a focus on quality of life rather than merely managing pain. Dr. Miller is a hospice and palliative care specialist at UCSF Medical Center and former director of San Francisco's groundbreaking Zen Hospice. A powerful voice for designing a better ending, Miller integrates art, spirituality and medicine in end-of-life care.
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Book Recomendation:
The Bright Hour : a Memoir of Living and Dying
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This book chronicles the story of 39-year-old poet Nina Riggs. She was diagnosed with breast cancer, a disease that had taken many members of her family over the generations - even her mother died of the disease during during the course of Nina's treatment.This is an exquisite memoir about how to live and love every day with "death in the room."
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Jan. 8
Advance Care Planning Workshop, Sansum Clinic, 215 Pesetas Lane, 3rd Floor, 10:00 am-12-pm. For information or registration, call (805) 845-5314 or
register online.
Jan. 10
Advance Care Planning Workshop, Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care, 360 Olive St, (Lounge), 4:00 - 6:00 pm. For information or registration, call (805) 845-5314 or
register online.
Jan. 16
Advance Care Planning Workshop, Valle Verde Retirement Community, 900 Calle De Los Amigos (Community Room), 3:30 - 5:30pm. For information or registration, call (805) 845-5314 or
register online
Jan. 17
Advance Care Planning Community Workshop, Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara, 1535 Santa Barbara St , 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm. For information and registration, call (805) 845-5314 or
register online.
Jan 17 Advance Care Planning Community Workshop, Garden Court, 1116 De La Vina St., 3:00 - 5:00 pm. Call (805) 845-5314 or
register online.
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Alliance for Living
and Dying Well
2040 Alameda Padre Serra,
Suite 110
Santa Barbara, CA
93103
(805) 845-5314
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Tuition-Free Class at SBCC:
Compassionate Communication
for Older Adults
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Santa Barbara City College is offering this eight-week class as part of its series of tuition-free courses for older adults this Spring. Compassionate Communcation may be particularly helpful for those seeking frank conversations with family and loved-ones about their end-of-life wishes. In this class, older adults will learn to ask for what they want without fear, guilt or shame, and discover how to transform potential conflicts into compassionate dialogues.
Class Schedule: 8 Thursdays, 6:15 - 8:30 pm, beginning 01/18/2018
Class Location: Wake Center #20, 300 N Turnpike Rd
Register in person at the Wake or Schott campus or
CLICK HERE.
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March 14, 2018
Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care presents:
Wednesday, March 14, 2018, 5:00 - 7:30 pm
Lobero Theater
March 22, 2018
Thursday, March 22, 2018,
7:00 - 9:00 PM
Marjorie Luke Theatre
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We hope you'll join us for an Advance Care Planning Community Workshop this month. Trained facilitators guide you in making important decisions about your end-of-life wishes. As always, our workshops are free and open to the public.
Call 805-845-5314 or click here to register.
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The
Alliance for Living and Dying Well is a collaboration of Santa Barbara area agencies that seek a seamless, compassionate continuum of end-of-life care, including:
The Alliance for Living and Dying well is 100% privately funded, and all services are provided to the Santa Barbara community free of charge. Your donation will help to make our community healthier, support the Alliance today.
Click here
to learn more!
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