Potluck Discussion: Sharing the Burden of Care

Informal gathering (no cost, will be held at a private residence in Glendale, 91201), so come and go as you need. Below are some materials that can we can use for discussion points to start us off. 

• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, Atul Gawande
  • Frontline documentary: Being Mortal (full documentary) | FRONTLINE
• A Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents - and Ourselves, Jane Gross
• Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life, Louise Aronson
• ”How Doctors Die: It’s not like the rest of us, but it should be,” by Ken Murray, 11/30/2011. Zocalopublicsquare.org/how-doctors-die/
• HBO show The Pitt (season 1) includes several story lines that deal with EOL care. Most of these stories wouldn't have finished in the ED, but they rang very true:
  • Mr. Spencer is an elderly man with advanced Alzheimer's. His adult children override his advanced directive
  • Nick Bradley, a healthy college kid, took contaminated study meds and is brain dead
  • Rita, a young girl, saved her younger sister, but suffered a non-fatal drowning.

Please RSVP by the March 1st deadline. I'll follow up with address and phone to those on that list.