After I'm Gone: In-Person Workshops
Who will take your place when you are no longer able to continue as a coach, caregiver, or help monitor your loved one’s activities, services, and other key aspects of their life?
We invite you as a resident of Lexington or someone whose loved one is a resident of Lexington to attend a 4-session workshop series to support you in planning for the future. This workshop series is focused on older caregivers who have adult family members with intellectual and developmental disabilities, including autism. Employees of the town are welcome to apply also.
The workshops cover:
- Overview of future planning.
- Importance of acting so your loved one, you and others are prepared for future realities.
- Keep the adult with the disability in the center, and advancing his/her decision-making role.
- Steps to identify and support your successor(s) as the coach or caregiver.
- Establishing a support network.
- Reviewing the future planning guide.
- Basic overview of residential options and other services.
Registration is first-come, first-served, and will be capped at 25 individuals.
Registration confirmation may wind up in your spam folder. Please check there if you cannot find it.
This workshop series and additional assistance is supported by a grant from the Dana Home Foundation. We appreciate its generous support. The Dana Home Foundation is dedicated to providing for the care, comfort, and wellbeing of senior citizens, with a special emphasis on serving, directly or indirectly, the needs of those who reside in or have connections to the Town of Lexington.
Schedule of Workshops
All classes will be held from 4:30 - 6:00PM on the following dates.
- Tuesday, October 20
- Tuesday, October 27
- Tuesday, November 3
- Tuesday, November 10
Registrants will receive Lexington location information in their confirmation email.
About After I'm Gone
Welcome to After I’m Gone, a guide to future planning for aging caregivers concerned about future care for their loved one with a disability.
This guide is for you if…
- You or your adult child are concerned about your adult child’s future.
- Your adult child needs help making decisions.
- You would like to be inspired.
- You want peace of mind.
- You wonder what will happen when you are gone.
- You would like to improve your adult child’s life right now.
Adult children with disabilities will most likely outlive their parents. A plan must be in place in case of a sudden death or other circumstances that will directly impact your child.
We can help you produce a plan that will live on after you are no longer able to be an active caregiver, coach, or overseer of your loved one’s activities, services, and other key aspects of their life. Planning centers on the desires, goals and support needs of the individual. For some, desires and goals may be expressed non-verbally.
We know that it’s hard to think of the future when you’re busy in the present. However, if you begin now, make changes gradually and prepare, you can ease the transition.
There is no better way to change the future than to plan for it.
Learn more at thearcofmass.org/future.
After I'm Gone: In-Person Workshops
Who will take your place when you are no longer able to continue as a coach, caregiver, or help monitor your loved one’s activities, services, and other key aspects of their life?
We invite you as a resident of Lexington or someone whose loved one is a resident of Lexington to attend a 4-session workshop series to support you in planning for the future. This workshop series is focused on older caregivers who have adult family members with intellectual and developmental disabilities, including autism. Employees of the town are welcome to apply also.
The workshops cover:
- Overview of future planning.
- Importance of acting so your loved one, you and others are prepared for future realities.
- Keep the adult with the disability in the center, and advancing his/her decision-making role.
- Steps to identify and support your successor(s) as the coach or caregiver.
- Establishing a support network.
- Reviewing the future planning guide.
- Basic overview of residential options and other services.
Registration is first-come, first-served, and will be capped at 25 individuals.
Registration confirmation may wind up in your spam folder. Please check there if you cannot find it.
This workshop series and additional assistance is supported by a grant from the Dana Home Foundation. We appreciate its generous support. The Dana Home Foundation is dedicated to providing for the care, comfort, and wellbeing of senior citizens, with a special emphasis on serving, directly or indirectly, the needs of those who reside in or have connections to the Town of Lexington.
Schedule of Workshops
All classes will be held from 4:30 - 6:00PM on the following dates.
- Tuesday, October 20
- Tuesday, October 27
- Tuesday, November 3
- Tuesday, November 10
Registrants will receive Lexington location information in their confirmation email.
About After I'm Gone
Welcome to After I’m Gone, a guide to future planning for aging caregivers concerned about future care for their loved one with a disability.
This guide is for you if…
- You or your adult child are concerned about your adult child’s future.
- Your adult child needs help making decisions.
- You would like to be inspired.
- You want peace of mind.
- You wonder what will happen when you are gone.
- You would like to improve your adult child’s life right now.
Adult children with disabilities will most likely outlive their parents. A plan must be in place in case of a sudden death or other circumstances that will directly impact your child.
We can help you produce a plan that will live on after you are no longer able to be an active caregiver, coach, or overseer of your loved one’s activities, services, and other key aspects of their life. Planning centers on the desires, goals and support needs of the individual. For some, desires and goals may be expressed non-verbally.
We know that it’s hard to think of the future when you’re busy in the present. However, if you begin now, make changes gradually and prepare, you can ease the transition.
There is no better way to change the future than to plan for it.
Learn more at thearcofmass.org/future.