Hospicare & Palliative Care Services, in partnership with the Tompkins County Public Library, will present a program to engage public dialogue on end-of-life issues.
The
second annual Sandra Lipsitz Bem Lecture Series on Compassionate Care and
End-of-Life Issues. The featured speaker will be Laurie Leonard, MBA, MSW,
executive director of End of Life Choices New York. Her talk, titled “Taking
Control of Your Death: What You Can Do to Die Well in New York,” will take
place Thursday, September 22, at 7 p.m., in the Tompkins Public Library’s BorgWarner
Community Room. This event is free and open to the public.
Leonard
has an MBA from the Harvard Business School and an MSW from Fordham University.
Her first career was in television broadcasting. She developed an interest in
death and dying, which led to her volunteering with a hospice and going back to
school to become a licensed social worker. She was a home care social worker
for Cabrini Hospice in New York City and has a private practice in bereavement
counseling. Earlier this year she became the executive director of End of Life
Choices New York.
The
Bem Lecture Series has been made possible through an endowment by Daryl Bem,
husband of noted psychologist, Sandra Bem. Through an annual lecture,
given by outstanding professionals in the field of end-of-life issues,
Hospicare endeavors to raise community awareness of death, dying and the
possibilities and limits of contemporary medicine.
It
is the hope of Hospicare and TCPL that these programs will encourage
respectful, engaged dialogue on this important topic. For more information
about hospice, contact Melissa Travis Dunham at mdunham@hospicare.org or
607-272-0212. For more information about TCPL contact Carrie Wheeler-Carmenatty
at (607) 272-4557 extension 248 or cwheeler@tcpl.org.
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