About a dozen community partners in Barrington have received a great response so far to a new campaign they launched last week calling us all to consider how we would like to be treated if we get seriously ill or injured in an accident and we couldn’t speak for ourselves. They’re challenging us to think about what our “wishes” would be at end of life and how can we share those “wishes” with our loved ones in advance.
The initiative is called BeatAtEase and it’s backed by organizations like the Barrington Area Council on Aging, Barrington 220 Schools, the Village of Barrington, Barrington Area Library and JourneyCare (formerly Hospice and Palliative Care of Northeastern Illinois), to name a few.
The focus is this 12 page form they’re making available to all of us who live in zip code 60010, free of charge, called “Five Wishes“. In the form, you fill out your answers to these five things…
1. The person I Want to Make Care Decisions for Me When I Can’t
2. The Kind of Medical Treatment I Want or Don’t Want
3. How Comfortable I Want to Be
4. How I Want People to Treat Me
5. What I Want My Loved Ones to Know
The Five Wishes form is a legally binding document produced by a national, non-profit organization called Aging with Dignity. Over 5,000 copies of the form in print and 10,000 copies online are being made available to us in Barrington……
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