Speakers

Gurpreet Dhillon, PeaceHealth, director of service lines, Cancer Center, Palliative Care, and Hospice, will share updates in the ever-growing range of services in cancer, palliative and hospice care in our community; critically ill patients can live longer and better when Advance Care Planning is addressed. He will report on the $2.5 million campaign drive to develop an outpatient palliative care program in Whatcom County.

Jack Lee, an 89-YO widower, is a volunteer Patient Ambassador at PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center, where he offers joy, warmth, humor and MUSIC to those in rehab and recovery. Jack believes death in America gets a bum rap. Accepting death's inevitability, lets us sort out the significant from the trivial, the spiritual from the material, to better focus on the brief time we have to live and to love. To life! He served as vice president and public relations chairman of Compassion in Dying of Washington. 

Barry M. Meyers, CELA (certified elder law attorney), explains legal services available to elders and their families, including estate and incapacity planning. Law practices now encompass an array of planning, advocacy, counseling and education for clients dealing with challenges of aging, disability, illness or death of a loved one.