McLeod offers Five Wishes program

By: Nicole Boone | News13
Published: September 22, 2008

McLeod Volunteer Auxiliary Members plan to help people with advance care planning. The Five Wishes program is scheduled for Monday, October 6, in the McLeod Plaza Vestibule from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. The theme of the advance care planning program at McLeod is Giving Your Family the Greatest Gift.

Volunteers will use a document from the Aging with Dignity Organization called Five Wishes. The Five Wishes document helps you express how you want to be treated if you are seriously ill and unable to speak for yourself. This program looks to all of a person's needs: medical, personal, emotional and spiritual. Five Wishes also encourages discussing your wishes with your family and physician. Five Wishes lets your family and doctors know:

• Which person you want to make health care decisions for you when you can't make them.
• The kind of medical treatment you want or don't want.
• How comfortable you want to be.
• How you want people to treat you.
• What you want your loved ones to know.

For more information on the First Monday programs, call the McLeod Volunteer Auxiliary at (843) 777-2082.