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Lecture Topic: Passages in Caregiving:
The Most Memorable Passage in Your Life

Presenter: Gail Sheehy

Date: Saturday, October 15
Location: SLO Vet's Hall (801 Grand Avenue, San Luis Obispo, CA 93401)

Event Details:

• Lecture: 7pm – 8:15
• Book signing: 8:15pm-9pm

Cost:

• Free for Total Immersion Pass Holders
• $35 for non-Total Immersion Pass Holders

Workshop sponsored by: French Hospital & Hospice Partners of the Central Coast

A Benefit for the Hearst Cancer Resource Center
No one really expects it, but just about everyone has been or will be responsible for providing care to someone close to them. Along with doctors and nurses, caregivers have become the backbone of the US healthcare system and an increasingly important part of a patient's decision-making team. Central Coast Bioneers is delighted to bring to San Luis Obispo the noted author Gail Sheehy, who has chronicled every major turning point for 20th-century Americans.Ms. Sheehy knows firsthand the trials, fears, and rare joys of caregiving, and provides invaluable advice and guidance. She examines the arc of caregiving and identifies the crucial stages and the challenges and rewards, and offers insight for successfully navigating the journey. With empathy and formidable research, interspersed with poignant stories of her experience and that of other successful caregivers, she addresses the needs of this enormous and growing group. With Gail Sheehy as your guide, this presentation on Passages in Caregiving is sure to help turn stressful, life altering situations for caregivers and healthcare professionals into a controlled and healthy process for everyone involved.

Following her lecture, Ms. Sheehy will sign copies of Passages in Caregiving.

Biography
As the bestselling author of 15 books, including Passages, Gail Sheehy has rocked the culture and changed the way millions of women and men around the world look at the stages of their lives. In 2010 she took on a most challenging and personal issue in her latest book Passages in Caregiving.

Ms. Sheehy's revolutionary Passages (1976) remained on The New York Times bestseller list for more than three years and has been reprinted in 28 languages. A Library of Congress survey named Passages one of the 10 most-influential books of our time. In The Silent Passage (1992), she broke the taboo surrounding menopause and opened a dialogue vital to maturing women's health. In New Passages and Understanding Men's Passages (1995) she revisited the stages of adult life and mapped out a completely new frontier entitled "second adulthood." In Sex and The Seasoned Woman: Pursuing the Passionate Life (2006), she lent her observant eye to the opportunities and challenges facing women concerning sex, dating, new dreams, divorce, remarriage and living passionate lives in their “second adulthood.”

As a literary journalist, Ms. Sheehy was one of the original contributors to New York magazine. A contributing editor to Vanity Fair since 1984, she won the Washington Journalism Review Award for Best Magazine Writer in America for her in-depth character portraits of national and world leaders, including both Presidents Bush, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Newt Gingrich, Margaret Thatcher, Saddam Hussein and Mikhail Gorbachev. Ms. Sheehy is a seven-time recipient of the New York Newswomen's Club Front Page Award for distinguished journalism.