Role-playing Helps Prepare
As I was growing up, I can remember doing a lot of role playing with my family members. What would you do if you were in this situation? How do you think you would react? What would you do differently? . . . I can't speak for my sibs, but I believe they felt prepared as I when we were approached with a given situation. We didn't have to analyze because we already had the answers. For example, when we had been approached by the doctors in the final stages of mom's life (before we knew they were the final stages)we were faced with a decision. We could have put mom on dialyses and had her leg amputated. Long before she got dementia, mom had been quite vocal about not ever wanting to be on dialyses. With her state of mind, she really wouldn't have known whether we honored that wish or having even requested it. S...