Food For Thought: Important Life Conversations: Are You Having Them?

Presenter: Lorrie Klemons, RN, MSN, Certified Dementia Practitoner, Author, 2020 National Caregivers Conference Speaker, and owner of Klemons Health Care Consulting. Have you ever tried to speak with your loved ones about their wishes or plans for the future only to have the conversation end abruptly? Families should be proactively having Important life conversations throughout the birth-death continuum. These conversations are especially critical to the safe, dignified and joyful aging of parents but they can be incredibly difficult to navigate. For a variety of reasons, many families don’t have the conversations. Is yours one of them? Does your faith tradition impact your decision of whether to have and/or how to address life conversations in your family? Lorrie Klemons will help you gather the resources, information and inspiration needed to help engage in these critically important life conversations.