Free Documentary Screenings and Panels
November is National Hospice & Palliative Care Month!
To promote the importance of advance care planning, we will be offering free screenings of the documentaries Being Mortal and Consider the Conversation in Easton, St. Michaels and Oxford. A panel discussion will follow the film. The films are approximately an hour in length, and the discussion will last up to 30 minutes.
In the film Being Mortal, FRONTLINE follows renowned New Yorker writer and Boston surgeon Atul Gawande as he explores the relationships doctors have with patients who are nearing the end of life. In conjunction with Gawande’s book, Being Mortal, the film investigates the practice of caring for the dying, and shows how doctors — himself included — are often remarkably untrained, ill-suited and uncomfortable talking about chronic illness and death with their patients.
The film Consider the Conversation is an intimate story about the American struggle with communication and preparation for life's end and includes the perspectives of patients, family members, doctors, nurses, social workers, clergy and national experts from around the country. It was produced with one simple goal in mind – to inspire culture change that results in end-of-life care that is more person-centered and less system-centered.
FILM SCREENING DATES, TIMES, LOCATIONS
Nov 7, 5:30 p.m. Consider the Conversation Talbot Hospice
Nov 9, 2 p.m. Being Mortal Oxford Community Ctr
Nov 10, 5:30 p.m. Being Mortal St. Michaels Library
Nov 14, 5:30 p.m. Consider the Conversation Oxford Community Ctr
Nov 15, 2 p.m. Being Mortal Talbot Co. Senior Ctr
Nov 21, 11 a.m. Consider the Conversation St. Michaels Library
Special thanks to St. Michaels Library, Talbot County Senior Center and Oxford Community Center for partnering with us to provide this community service.
Please register in advance (below), or call 410-822-6681.
CONSIDER THE CONVERSATION, 11/7, 5:30 p.m. - Talbot Hospice
BEING MORTAL 11/9, 2 p.m. - Oxford Community Center
BEING MORTAL 11/10, 5:30 - St. Michaels Library
CONSIDER THE CONVERSATION 11/14, 5:30 - Oxford Community Center
BEING MORTAL 11/15, 2 p.m. - Talbot County Senior Center
CONSIDER THE CONVERSATION 11/21, 11 a.m. - St. Michaels Library
