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SUMMARY:[WEBINAR] After I'm Gone: Health and Advanced Care Planning with Janet Rico\, Elise Kopley\, and Leo Sarkissian
DESCRIPTION:This session will cover: \n\nWhat is advanced care planning?\nEducating healthcare professionals so they “know” your loved one\nSerious medical illness.\n\n“Having the conversation” regarding preferences and determining the best health care proxy will also be discussed. \nJanet Rico\, a nurse practitioner\, holds a doctorate in Law and Public Policy\, with several decades experience in various clinical settings including palliative care. For much of her career\, she trained graduate level nurses at Simmons University\, and as the assistant dean of graduate nursing programs at Northeastern University. She served on and chaired the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing. Janet is the former Chair of The Arc of Massachusetts Board of Directors and has participated in several state level health task forces. \nElise Kopley is Deputy General Counsel at the Department of Developmental Services (DDS). \nRegister for this webinar here.
URL:https://thearcofmass.org/event/webinar-after-im-gone-health-and-advanced-care-planning-with-janet-rico-and-leo-sarkissian/
CATEGORIES:After I'm Gone,Webinars
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SUMMARY:[WEBINAR] After I’m Gone: Self-Advocate Panel
DESCRIPTION:In planning for the future\, it’s critical we keep the individual with a disability voice at the center of planning. \nJoin a panel of self-advocates in a discussion on future planning. Panelists will discuss their experience navigating the transition to independence as an adult\, including housing\, transportation\, communication\, technology\, and creating a social support network. Panelists will also share their goals for the future and how families can support their adult child with a disability to ensure the right supports are in place to achieve these goals. \nThis panel will be moderated by Nicole Homerin\, Program Associate\, After I’m Gone. \nRegister for this webinar here.
URL:https://thearcofmass.org/event/webinar-after-im-gone-self-advocate-panel/
CATEGORIES:After I'm Gone,Webinars
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SUMMARY:[WEBINAR] After I’m Gone: Factors to Consider in Future Planning
DESCRIPTION:Building a plan with roots today that keeps growing tomorrow \nPlanning for After I’m Gone is the conversation most families of a loved one with a disability carry privately and rarely have out loud. This session is that conversation\, held in the open and organized around the Five Factors of Special Needs Planning. \nAlexandria Nadworny\, CFP® of Sequoia Financial Group will be presenting. She is a wealth advisor who has spent years helping families build plans that outlast them\, and she is a sister who is stepping into a successor role in her own family. That combination shapes how she approaches this work: not as a set of documents to execute\, but as a life that must keep running after the people who have been running it are no longer able to. \nThe session gives closest attention to the financial factor. What does a lifetime of support actually require? Where does the money come from\, in what order\, and how does it get directed so that benefits eligibility survives the transition? We’ll work through the tools families use to fund a plan across two generations\, and the common\, preventable mistakes that undo years of careful saving. \nWe’ll also briefly cover what the funding depends on: the legal documents that give people authority\, the government benefits that carry much of the weight\, and the team of family members\, friends\, and professionals who will one day carry the plan forward. You’ll leave with concrete next steps and ideas on how to identify and prepare your successors\, including how to set a review cadence that keeps the plan current as your family changes. \nRoots planted today are what let the plan keep growing tomorrow. The families who do this well start long before they need to. \nRegister for this webinar here.
URL:https://thearcofmass.org/event/webinar-after-im-gone-factors-to-consider-in-future-planning/
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