Preparing for and Coping with the ‘Last Chapter of Life’: The Older Person, Families, Friends and Workers
12th Annual Jarvie Colloquium, June 8, 2007

This meeting featured plenary speaker Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, of Yale University Medical School. Dr. Nuland is the author of How We Die: Reflecting on Life’s Final Chapter and The Art of Aging: A Doctor’s Prescription for Well-Being. The plenary session was followed by workshops addressing numerous end-of-life issues.

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The Jarvie staff and volunteers welcome participants to Jarvie’s 12th Annual Colloquium. Al Snider (standing), Jarvie’s former Executive Director/CEO and Merle Arnold (seated), the Chair of the Jarvie Commonweal Service Committee, welcomed an audience of over 275 participants to the Colloquium. Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, of Yale University Medical School was the featured plenary presenter.
     
Renee Solomon, DSW, engaged Colloquium participants as the discussant responding to Dr. Nuland’s plenary presentation. Dr. Nuland (seated) signed copies of his books, How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter and The Art of Aging: A Doctor's Prescription for Well-Being, for participants, including Commissioner Mendez-Santiago (standing).  The networking lunch is a traditional part of Jarvie’s Annual Colloquium. It provides participants with the opportunity to get to know each other, share ideas and resources, and visit with colleagues in the field.
     
 
Elizabeth Fine presented a workshop entitled “Remembering Lives Forgotten; Forgetting Lives Remembered: Helping People with Memory Problems Cope with Loss and Grief,” one of ten workshops offered during the morning and afternoon sessions. The Closing Plenary, entitled “Exploration of the Complexity of Cross Cultural & Faith Issues in the ‘Last Chapter of Life,’” was led (clockwise from bottom left) by Rabbi Leonard Blank, Rev. Dr. Paul Smith, Mr. John Tsoi, and Dr. Martha Adams Sullivan.