LET’S TALK: CAREGIVING MATTERS & OTHER ISSUES FOR OLDER ADULTS
Every Tuesday from 3:00 to 4:30 pm
Upstairs Conference Room
Please join us every Tuesday for the third series of Caregiving Matters to inform, inspire, and connect individuals in the community and help them to navigate the territory of caregiving, serious illness and grief.
Bonnie Evans is a geriatric nurse practitioner with experience in hospice and palliative care, an end-of-life doula, and a caregiver advocate.
Join one, some or all sessions! All sessions will be available via Zoom.
Schedule:
April 9 – A Menu of Tips for Resilient Caregiving
Like a good meal, these ideas will help to sustain you and support resilience.
April 23 – Balancing Caregiver Support While Honoring Independence
Trying to keep a loved one safe while also supporting their dignity and autonomy can lead to conflict. Maybe driving is no longer safe, a home needs to be modified or help is needed but resisted. Let’s review some guiding principles.
May 7 – Anticipatory Grief and Loss
Grief can surface well before a death or loss (divorce, illness) & can go unrecognized in ourselves and others. Let’s talk about possible symptoms and how to support each other along the way.
May 21 – View and Discuss the Documentary “In the Realm of Death & Dreaming”
Fascinating interviews with people who’ve had near death experiences, nurses, chaplains and physicians to investigate whether there may be consciousness after death. There will be time to have a discussion on this interesting, uplifting, and beautifully filmed documentary.
June 4– An Introduction to The Village Common of RI
Susan McCalmont from the Barrington Village will review this neighborhood approach to coordinating services for older adults to “age in place.” It is a non-profit volunteer-driven membership organization. There are 6 villages so far in RI and this information may be the inspiration for one here in Bristol.
June 18 –Our Own – Death Café
The concept of gathering over tea and cake and having an open discussion around life, death, and what really matters to us, originated in the UK and has now gone global. After a brief introduction, we will follow the conversation wherever it leads us. This will bring our spring program to a close.
For information on additional programs, please visit our calendar at rogersfreelibrary.org/calendar