Stockton and AtlantiCare to Offer Oct. 28 Session in Manahawkin on Advance Medical Care Planning
For Immediate Release
Contact: Maryjane Briant
News and Media Relations Director
Galloway, N.J. 08205
Maryjane.Briant@stockton.edu
(609) 652-4593
Galloway, N.J. - Learn more about health care directives - including information on hospice, advance directives, living wills and forms that clearly state what kinds of medical treatment patients want toward the end of their lives, on Friday, Oct. 28 at noon at Stockton鈥檚 Manahawkin Instructional Site.
Alice Caivano, community representative and liaison of AtlantiCare HealthCare at Home (which provides home care and hospice) will present a lecture on advance care planning. This includes determining what health care treatments an individual would or would not want if he/she could not speak, and letting others know in advance. She will discuss "Having the Conversation鈥 about developing such plans with the patient and his/her family or circle of caregivers.
The free 鈥淟unch & Learn鈥 session is sponsored by AtlantiCare Healthcare at Home and the university鈥檚 instructional site, located at 712 E. Bay Ave., Manahawkin, N.J.
The program is open to the public and lunch will be provided.
Please call AtlantiCare at 1-888-569-1000 to register.
For more information about classes and other activities at the site, visit stockton.edu/manahawkin.
