Workshops for Your Room at the End

As I have previously mentioned, Your Room at the End: Thoughts About Aging We’d Rather Avoid, was a particularly challenging book to write because I prefer to approach non-fiction in as entertaining a style as possible. Although the topics in Your Room do not lend themselves to entertainment, the book is designed to help people begin to ask and answer some very important questions about planning for the senior years. With that goal in mind, I have developed a one-hour presentation as well as a 2- hour and a 3-4 hour workshop that provides a platform for people to build on their initial response to Your Room. The workshops are specifically designed to help people take active steps for planning instead of putting planning in the, “I need to get around to that someday,” category.

What Every Baby Boomer Should Know About Planning for the Future

The One-Hour Presentation

Agenda:

Introduction and Background
Basic statistics of life expectancy
Quality of Life (Personalized)
Personalizing Your Life List
Living Arrangements
Available Resources for Support (Family and other)
Wills, Living Wills, Powers of Attorney, Estate Planning Overview
Q&A

2 Hour Workshop

Agenda:

Introduction and Ice breaker
Background and basic statistics of life expectancy
Family Situation Worksheet
Quality of Life (Personalized) Worksheet
Life List Worksheet
Living Arrangements Worksheet
Available Resources for Support (Family and other) Worksheet
Wills, Living Wills, Powers of Attorney, Estate Planning Worksheet
Q&A
Wrap-up

3-4 Hour Workshop

Can include working lunch or go up until lunch; schedule flexible according to needs of who is booking the workshop

All of the 2-hour workshop plus more in-depth on Resources, Medical, and Hospice; perhaps Family Situation.

Presentations and workshops can be arranged with an initial email or by faxing a query to 305 847-0268. One-hour presentations do not normally (but can) include a copy of Your Room at the End for each attendee. Workshops include a copy of the book and a notebook with worksheets for each attendee.