Celebrate National Older Americans Month by attending the third annual Upper Bucks Forum on Aging, Benner Hall, 1260 Cherry Street, Richlandtown, PA 18955.

This free, public educational event is being presented to provide citizens 50 years of age or older with valuable information about health and human services. It is sponsored by Phoebe Richland Health Care Center, Richland and Haycock Townships, the Boroughs of Richlandtown, Quakertown, Trumbauersville and Perkasie. Additionally, the Bucks County Area Agency on Aging, the Phoebe Institute on Aging and the Bucks County Long Term Care Consortium support this program. Multiple speakers will be presenting information on a variety of topics.

Call 267-371-4566 for more information.
The event is free and open to seniors 50 and older.

Interdisciplinary Approaches to End of Life Care
Presented by Author
The Rev. Dr. Martha Jacobs
with a panel of interdisciplinary professionals

June 10, 2010
8:30 am - noon
Lehigh Valley Hospital
Cedar Crest & I-78
Auditorium

Interdisciplinary panelists:
Joseph Vincent, MD, Pulmonary Care Assoc., Chair, Phoebe Institute on Aging Gretchen Fitgerald, C.R.N.P., LVHN, Nurse Practitioner OACIS Program Rev. Anne Huey, MDiv, MSHS, BCC, Spiritual and Bereavement Care Manager, St. Luke's Hospice Suzanne Weaver, MSW, LCSW, ACSW, Professor of Sociology and Gerontology, Cedar Crest College Carol Pochron, RN, BSN, Parish Nurse & Program Director, Sacred Heart Hospice Lou Lukas, M.D., LVH OACIS (Optimizing Advanced Complex Illness Support) Medical Director, Elissa Foster, Ph.D., Medical Educator, Department of Family Medicine & Division of Education, and Author of Communicating at the End of Life: Finding Magic in the Mundane (Erlbaum, 2007).

Target Audience:
Ethics committees, clergy, parish nurses and visitation teams supporting members of our community in their end of life decision making. Health care professionals from various disciplines concerned with palliative care and end of life issues.

Program Schedule:
8:30 - 9 am - Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:15 am - Featured speaker: Rev. Dr. Martha Jacobs
10:30 - 11:30 am - Interdisciplinary Panel
11:30 am - Noon - An Introduction to POLST

Rev. Dr. Jacobs is a UCC health care chaplain, editor of the Faithfully Facing Dying Lenten Study Guide from Justice and Witness Ministries of the UCC, and author of A Clergy Guide to End-of-Life Issues, published by Pilgrim Press.

To register, go to www.phoebe.org/events.

Phoebe Institute on Aging Benefit and Conference
Listening is an Act of Love
Guest Speaker: Isay

November 4 & 5, 2010
Beginning 6 pm Thursday at the Lehigh Country Club

David Isay is founder and president of StoryCorps, an independent non-profit project whose mission is to honor and celebrate one another's lives through listening. StoryCorps' interviews are broadcast every Friday on NPR's Morning Edition. Isay is the editor of Listening is an Act of Love and the soon to be released Mom: A Celebration of Mothers from StoryCorps. For more information contact hhaas@phoebe.org.