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We're going to give a brief demonstration of a technique called

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talking mats.  It was developed in Scotland at the University of Sterling.

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This is from a research and social enterprise

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that looks at ways of making decision making

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work for people who are speaking or not speaking, who have some cognitive

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challenges - or not - with language and

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communication issues.  I'm here with my colleague Heather.

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Heather has taken some of this training, and we have also done some recent

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work on palliative care.  So the mat we're going to talk about is

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looking ahead and doing some planning for the future.  This is

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getting your personal affairs in order.  That is our topic.  The top scale is

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there's a positive and a negative, and an in between.

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This scale- how we're going to frame it up is: Heather, what kinds of things have you

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got in order, and maybe you haven't really dealt with yet

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and you're not quite sure where you're at?  Okay.  So

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the first thing I'm going to ask about is your will.

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Is that something that you've got sorted?

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I'm going to put it over in the yes pile.
-Good job.

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How about a plan for leaving memories for

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your family?  Is that something you've sorted?

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Leaving memories.  I would say some, I have.

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I'm unsure and would actually have to look into that more.

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How about funeral planning?
-Yes, that's done.  Yes

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And organ donation?

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That's a yes.  Power of attorney

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for personal care?
-I'm going to say I'm not sure

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I'm not sure if that's part of my will.  It's been a while, so I'm going to say unsure.

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Okay, and there's also power of attorney for

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finance as well.  Is that something that you've sorted out?  Yes.  Okay.

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And possessions?

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I'm going to say not really.