An Interview on Advance Care Planning with Joanne Eason President of FIVE WISHES
All Home Care Matters
Enriched Life Home Care Services
5.0 • 88 Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Joanne Eason is President of Five Wishes, an advance care planning program created by the national non-profit, Aging with Dignity. She works with the more than 40,000 partner organizations to assist in starting conversations with various audiences regarding discussions and documentation about medical care prior to a serious illness. She oversees program development, outreach and distribution of millions of Five Wishes documents annually.
Joanne has more than 25 years of communication experience – centered primarily in the health and insurance industries – and provides strategic counsel on how best to implement the Five Wishes framework. Joanne holds a Master of Arts in Communications from Michigan State University.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to All Home Care Matters, the show where we discuss all things home care, |
| 0:06.0 | with discussions on important age-related matters and topics. |
| 0:10.1 | Brought to you by Enriched Life Home Care Services, |
| 0:13.3 | the number one rated home care provider in Michigan by Top-rated Local. |
| 0:25.7 | Thank you. Rated Local. Hello and welcome back to All Home Care Matters. |
| 0:28.5 | We want to say thank you for taking time out to be with us today. |
| 0:31.5 | We appreciate how valuable everyone's time is. |
| 0:34.4 | That's why we try and make each episode here at All Home Care Matters, something that hopefully matters to you. Today, we are honored to welcome a very special guest. |
| 0:43.0 | We are welcoming Joanne Eason, the president of Five Wishes. Welcome, Joanne. |
| 0:49.9 | Oh, it is my pleasure. Thank you for having me. Our pleasure. Thank you. |
| 0:53.9 | So, Joanne, you're the president of Five Wishes, which is a tremendous resource for families and health care professionals to share with their patients and families they encounter for advanced care planning. |
| 1:05.5 | Why don't we start by asking you, how did you get involved with Five Wishes and Advanced Care Planning? |
| 1:12.9 | It was actually serendipitous, to tell you the truth. |
| 1:17.3 | I grew up in Michigan and lived there for most of my life. |
| 1:22.0 | And my husband took a job here in Florida, where Five Wishes, which is a program of aging |
| 1:27.0 | with dignity. Aging with Dignity. |
| 1:28.4 | Aging with Dignity is a national nonprofit organization. |
| 1:31.8 | He took a job, and I had a background in communications, and a position opened up, |
| 1:41.0 | and they were looking for someone to actually work with our partner organizations. |
| 1:45.3 | And I really am strongly believing in their mission, which is really to safeguard human dignity. |
| 1:53.1 | Part of the rationale behind five wishes is that it's a document to give people dignity when they're most vulnerable, |
| 2:03.3 | specifically when they're at the end of life. And it really was developed by our founder, |
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