Tag: end of life

End of Life – Know Your Options and Control Your Destiny

Carol Ann Wegenast and Barbara Engdahl

March 23, 2014

Carol Wegenast, a Physician’s Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST) trainer for the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California (http://www.coalitionccc.org/), will present the POLST form. ThePOLST is a medical order signed by the doctor and the patient giving YOU control about what kinds of medical treatments you do or do not want at the end of your life.

 

Click here to view Carol’s Slides.

Barbara Engdahl from Compassion and Choices (http://www.compassionandchoices.org/) will speak about the “Advance Health Care Directive” with the new “Dementia Provision”.

 

Humanist Community Forum (2014-03-23): End of Life – Know Your Options and Control Your Destiny from Humanist Community-SiliconValley on Vimeo.