AgingandEnd-Of-LifeWebinarSeries Begins
The American Association on Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities and other organizations are hosting a series of webinars on aging and end-of-life care for individuals with developmental disabilities. Each webinar begins 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time, every third Wednesday of each month, starting September 16.
September Topic:Key Issues in Healthcare Decision Making and Care at End of Life: How to use person-centered practices to support quality planning with people with critical, chronic and/or terminal illnesses.
Date: Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Time: 1:00-2:00 pm
Speaker: Leigh Ann Creaney Kingsbury, MPA, Gerontologist
To Register, click here.
Leigh Ann Kingsbury is one of a small group of professionals actively working on using person-centered practices for planning around healthcare decision-making and care at end of life. She was an invited contributor for an expert panel convened to report to Congress; she is the author of People Planning Ahead: A Guide to Communicating Healthcare and End of Life Wishes, published by AAIDD in December 2008 and several other articles regarding planning and care at end of life.
Webinar Description: As people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities have more opportunities for decision making and are living to old age; and as family caregivers are aging, the need to think about healthcare decision making, advance directives and wishes about end of life care is rapidly increasing. It is critical as systems and providers of support services that we begin to help people with ID/DD identify surrogate decision makers for healthcare, should one be unable at any point in time to make his/her own decisions. This presentation will discuss some of the key issues we need to be aware of related to decision making and care at end life, including capacity, competency and how to identify surrogate decision makers.
Target Audience: Executive leadership; QDDP’s; ISP/IHP writers, person centered plan developers
October Topic:Supporting People with Dementia
Date: Wednesday, October 21st
November Topic:Aging and End of Life:Crisis or Opportunity?
Speaker:Bill Gaventa, M.Div
Date:Wednesday, November 18th
December Topic:Ethics and Caregiving
Speaker:Michael Henderson, M.D.
Date:Wednesday, December 16th
Time:1:00 – 2:00 p.m.
Additional Webinars will be scheduled for 2010.
AAIDD, the Association of University Centers on Disabilities, The Arc of the United States, American Network of Community Options & Resources, AAIDD Gerontology Division, and RRTC on Aging & Developmental Disabilities at University of Illinois in Chicago sponsor the series.