Speaker Series: Advanced Care Planning Panel

Creating an Advanced Care Plan is crucial to avoid overwhelming complexity when sudden higher care is needed for parents. Despite witnessing our parents' challenges and delays, we often postpone crafting our own care plans. Professionals in senior care stress the urgency of proactive planning, as a 'wait and see' approach jeopardizes seniors, families, and caregivers, emphasizing that early action in understanding options and open family communication alleviates stress and financial strain.

In this Speaker Series, a panel of experts will share their insights for optimal aging, uncovering gaps and solutions, in addition to providing strategies to prioritize efforts and avert crises.

Speakers Include:

Member Amy D’Aprix - With a Ph.D. in Social Work, “Dr. Amy” is an internationally renowned expert on lifestyle issues relating to retirement, aging, caregiving, and family dynamics.

Member Marion York – A specialist in Aging and Transitions, Marion is a Certified Professional Consultant on Aging (CPCA), Certified Executor Advisor (CEA), and Senior Home Safety Specialist.

Sue Lantz – Founder and Managing Director of “Collaborative Aging” and a Navigational Expert on Healthy Aging. Sue is an expert in the field of aging in place including, healthcare, housing and caregiving, and creative solutions.

Member Kristine Anderson – Founder of Fern Law, specializing in Wills, Estates and Elder Law, Mediation. An experienced and recognized leader in the estates bar, with a focus on individuals in cognitive decline.

Moderator & Member: Sylvia Verkley - Founder and CEO of reminisart, creating photo collages that tell the extraordinary life stories of seniors living in care, to spark connections with care teams that change a patient into a person.