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We answer your questions about Advance Care Planning Dear Alice, When folks talk about advance care planning, they often use different terms that seem to be the same thing. What is the difference between an Advance Directive, a Living Will, and an Appointment of Health Care Agent...
by Patty Dunn, Hospice Program Coordinator “I have been haunted by the worry that many people underestimate and misunderstand the value of simple human attention. I mean the kind of attention where the rest of the world around you melts away and it’s just you and...
by Jennie Reichman [caption id="attachment_6372" align="alignright" width="300"] Sage advice from a sign for sale at the Shop[/caption] Some things are counterintuitive. “Why am I doing this?” you think as you move away from home to a new location, leave a relationship that is serviceable but unfulfilling, invest...
BY CHRIS MAYS Brattleboro Reformer Monday, October 5, 2020 BRATTLEBORO Muriel Wolf dedicated most of her 25 years with Brattleboro Area Hospice to bereavement counseling. "Then I decided to both broaden and deepen the work I wanted to do," the hospice's spiritual companion said. The spiritual care program began...
by Jennie Reichman The other day I wore something I wouldn’t have been caught dead in a few years ago: high-waisted jeans. I freely admit that I am a clotheshorse, a fashionista, a follower of trends. I do draw the line at dressing as if I...
We answer your questions about Advance Care Planning Dear Alice, When I signed my will several years ago, the packet of documents I received from my attorney included an advance directive that my attorney and I did not discuss in any depth. A friend says that really...
We answer your questions about Advance Care Planning Dear Alice, Getting my Advance Directive (AD) done was my New Year's resolution, and I was just about to get started when COVID-19 hit. But with the challenge of the pandemic, I feel really confused. Suddenly questions about ICUs...
by Jennie Reichman It happened in early August while I was out on my morning run, an incongruent splotch of scarlet on the grey pavement at my feet. Summer was in full swing, the air was warm and humid at 6:30 am, but there on the...
Take the first step in learning about advance directives by watching a video at home! Don Freeman, our ACP Coordinator and ACP volunteers Hanna Thurber and Lana Golden speak with the Southern Vermont Young Professionals group about the basics of advance directives, a document that...
Dear Alice, With help from Taking Steps Brattleboro, I have recently completed and registered a Vermont "Short Form" advance directive. I am so relieved, and my children, who are in their late twenties and early thirties, are so grateful that we have had the "Advance Care...