When you’re in your 20s, it’s easy to believe you have time. Time to build savings, to start a family, to plan for the future. Conversations about wills, trusts, and health care proxies sound like something your parents or grandparents handle. You think the hard things are supposed to happen later in life. But after losing my dad at 25, I realized how fragile that sense of “later” really is. Read more from Zoe here.
National Healthcare Decisions Day (NHDD) is April 16th and we’re celebrating all month by sharing resources across our communications channels – follow us via Facebook and Instagram. Check here for ideas for promoting NHDD in your community or use our Communications Toolkit for Promoting NHDD to access ready-made content and images you can use to make spreading the word easy. Or, share our recent call recording “How to discuss your wishes for care through the end of life with family and friends” with concrete steps to take.
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Maureen Jennings gathered family together on her father’s 85th birthday to talk about the health care he wants.
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