Advance Care Planning is a process that takes time and active reflection. Thinking about advance care planning when the diagnosis is Alzheimer's can be challenging. With a diagnosis of dementia, it gets more difficult to reflect on goals for end-of-life care. ACP+D presentations are designed to educate people who have either received a diagnosis of dementia or are caring for someone who has. We’ll cover:
Rebecca Rech Cutler, a former Hospice nurse and/or Bill Lombard, a local nephrologist, will discuss the meaning of advanced medical interventions in frank terms, focusing on patient outcomes when these interventions are employed. This presentation addresses in layperson's terms the realities of what these "interventions" mean to average people and their families so that you can make informed decisions about your care. This interactive session will allow for questions and dialogue, and some equipment used in the ICU will be available for viewing.
Because we know that the arts often provide an opening door for discussion about hard topics, the Palliative Care Institute at Western Washington University is collaborating with The Bellingham Theater Works (BTW), our local community repertory theater company, to mount a series of plays this summer through the Fairhaven Repertory Theater series. Each play has a major character who has cancer.
The first play is WIT,Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-...
Because we know that the arts often provide an opening door for discussion about hard topics, the Palliative Care Institute at Western Washington University is collaborating with The Bellingham Theater Works (BTW), our local community repertory theater company, to mount a series of plays this summer through the Fairhaven Repertory Theater series. Each play has a major character who has cancer.
The first play is WIT,Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-...
In conjunction with the Fairhaven Repertory Theater presentation of Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Wit, Megan Cole will present The Wisdom of “Wit” – a dramatized lecture about the play - a sardonic, funny, and heart-wrenching exploration of the beauty and puzzle of our irrevocable journey toward dying, seen through the eyes of a 50-year-old professor of English Literature diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Megan leads the audience through the play’s...
Because we know that the arts often provide an opening door for discussion about hard topics, the Palliative Care Institute at Western Washington University is collaborating with The Bellingham Theater Works (BTW), our local community repertory theater company, to mount a series of plays this summer through the Fairhaven Repertory Theater series. Each play has a major character who has cancer.
The first play is WIT,Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-...
Because we know that the arts often provide an opening door for discussion about hard topics, the Palliative Care Institute at Western Washington University is collaborating with The Bellingham Theater Works (BTW), our local community repertory theater company, to mount a series of plays this summer through the Fairhaven Repertory Theater series. Each play has a major character who has cancer.
The first play is WIT,Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-...
Because we know that the arts often provide an opening door for discussion about hard topics, the Palliative Care Institute at Western Washington University is collaborating with The Bellingham Theater Works (BTW), our local community repertory theater company, to mount a series of plays this summer through the Fairhaven Repertory Theater series. Each play has a major character who has cancer.
The first play is WIT,Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-...
THE BOOK STUDY GROUPS HAVE CLOSED ENROLLMENT FOR THIS ROUND. If you would like to be added to a wait list for the next round in fall 2019, please email pci@wwu.edu.
The Palliative Care Institute and Whatcom Hospice invite you to join a study group to explore The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully. We will meet once a month for 6 months to explore the invitations with...
Because we know that the arts often provide an opening door for discussion about hard topics, the Palliative Care Institute at Western Washington University is collaborating with The Bellingham Theater Works (BTW), our local community repertory theater company, to mount a series of plays this summer through the Fairhaven Repertory Theater series. Each play has a major character who has cancer.
The first play is WIT,Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-...
