After I'm Gone: In-Person Course

After I'm Gone: In-Person Course

This in-person course, consisting of four classes, will guide you in creating 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.

Participants will:

• Identify key tasks or activities whether managed by you, through others, or through public services.
• Identify and/or develop successor caregiver(s).
• Utilize a questionnaire to help share details of the individual and his/her life.
• Determine the role of Care Managers, Attorneys, and Financial Planners.
• Finalize a future plan.

The Arc’s Innovation Development Director Leo Sarkissian and Director of Education and Outreach Jackie Doherty will facilitate the classes. Discussion and sharing of stories will be encouraged. This is a pilot course and there is currently no charge to attend. To make a donation, please visit thearcofmass.org/donate.

Please plan on attending all four classes. Space is limited to 25 participants.

Thanks to Cummings Foundation for their support of this course.

Schedule of Classes

All classes will be held from 4:30 - 6:00PM on the following dates.

1. Tuesday, March 3
2. Tuesday, March 24
3. Tuesday, April 7
4. Tuesday, April 21

All classes will be held at Incompass Human Services at 4 Omni Way, Chelmsford, MA, 01824.

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.