Name: Supporting Your Loved One’s Choices for End-of-Life Medical Care
Start: 2026-07-09T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-07-09T21:00:00-04:00

Supporting Your Loved One’s Choices for End-of-Life Medical Care

July 9 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

A presentation by Llee Sivitz, Award Winning Local Author

Llee Sivitz was asked to choose between life or death for both her mom and her husband. The experience was so powerful that she wrote “Speaking Up For Mom – A Daughter’s Quest for Compassionate Medical Care”.

After her presentation, she will do a book signing, the impetus for her talk. Books will be available for purchase. Light refreshments will be provided.

Seats Limited | RSVP to community@gateofheaven.org

To find more information about Llee Sivitz or Speaking Up for Mom, please visit www.speakingupformom.com or read the excerpt below.

Speaking Up for Mom
A Daughter’s Quest for
Compassionate Medical Care

Being responsible for a loved one’s health care decisions can be a scary thing. Yet, it is also an incredible privilege when someone trusts us enough to place their life in our hands. Speaking Up for Mom chronicles the decision-making dilemmas Llee Sivitz encountered in this role, as she realized how ill-equipped she was to handle her mother’s medical crisis … and helplessly watched as things went terribly wrong in a seemingly impersonal medical landscape. What happens if, like Sivitz, we don’t know what questions to ask or what our rights are as a patient or advocate? With so many options in medical treatment available today, itʼs imperative to know what your loved one wants and to recognize that a patient has the right and power to choose. If nothing else, Sivitz says, we must make sure our loved one has a voice.

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Supporting Your Loved One’s Choices for End-of-Life Medical Care