Navigating Life’s Changing Seasons: Resources - St. John's Norwood Episcopal Church

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Navigating Life’s Changing Seasons

Below are resources shared at the Serving Seniors Ministry‘s Navigating Life’s Changing Seasons series. Please bookmark this page of resource links, and to share it with family members or friends, as a good way of starting a conversation about these issues.

Session 1: Practical Preparations: Directives, Powers, Wills, and Trusts

Recording link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBA6VgZheMw
PDF document: Planned giving and wills

Session 2: Financial Planning for the Long Term and Protecting Your Savings from Financial Fraud

Recording link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le3b2GqS9LI
PDF document: Financial planning
PDF document: Family inventory
PDF document: Funeral planning
Book: The Other Talk, mentioned by Melanie, is published by AARP and available at various retailers.
Book: I’m Dead Now What?, which can be purchased on Amazon
A good daily money manager: Leah Nichaman. She and her team help people with a myriad of personal bookkeeping/ administrative duties.
Link for credit freeze details: consumer.ftc.gov/articles/what-know-about-credit-freezes-fraud-alerts
Link for Maryland Project Safe initiative: dhs.maryland.gov/office-of-adult-services/project-safe/

Session 3: Worth and Purpose through all Life’s Seasons

Recording link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvEdaaoazG8&list=PLuSBBGZt5juLMccpFAgWBBb361kcXvZET
Book: Living on the Border of the Holy, by Bill Countryman. Sarah recommends this for its discussion of spiritual maturity and embracing our own individual gifts and ministries.
Book: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life by Richard Rohr. This is great for exploring a spirituality of being vs doing, or, in other words, of inherent worthiness.

Session 4: Care Management for Older Adults

Recording link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-yXnzIgrOg
PDF document: Seabury care management

Additional attachment:

PDF document: St John’s funeral planning document

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