A Living Will Is Important

PRSRT STD ECRWSS U.S. Postage PAID EDDM Retail Monroe Twp., NJ 08831 VOLUME 52 / No. 8 Monroe Township, New Jersey August 2016 Focus on: Groups and Clubs Ceramics: Find your inner creator By Jean Houvener details of how to make New people are welcome at any time. The group is so- Rossmoor is fortunate to something. The group also ciable as well as talented. have a top-notch ceramics bulk purchases bisqueware The greenware, whether room with a knowledgeable (fired once) and greenware purchased, poured into and active group of partici- (already poured, but still molds, or hand built is dried pants. The room itself is raw clay) from a nearby and then fired in one of the actually several rooms, with supplier. Individuals choose kilns. The greenware, which a large work area to create and pay for what they want. is still basic clay, is fragile various types of ceramics. Because the group has until it is fired. It also needs The room is open Monday, been a good customer, the to be cleaned, with seams Wednesday, Thursday, and members get a good price. smoothed, and extra bits Saturday from 8:30 to noon. Orders are centrally made removed. Items are put on In addition to the main work through Maggie Johnsen. the “in progress” shelves to area, there is a room filled The group also does its dry and when enough with molds and forms for own creation of greenware pieces are ready, they are shaping any sort of ce- with slip pours into the fired in the kiln. The kiln is ramic. There is also the many available molds. Be- carefully filled with pillars to room with works in progress cause that can be tricky and support the trays as one and the three kilns. If you somewhat difficult, there is row after another of items have never visited the ce- a member who will assist are placed in the kiln. The ramics room, consider a anyone with slip pours. items are also placed on visit to explore the possibili- There are many talented small ceramic pieces with ties. people in the group who are stilts to keep the items from Judy Sforza – Recognition well deserved There are many choices happy to help newcomers touching the trays. Firing of what to do. The group get started. The group has the kiln can take 10 hours Preserving the past while moving has a wheel for turning. a range of skills and experi- with a second day to cool Many people also start with ence, and whether new or as the kiln is heated to forward – a tough path to follow the basic clay and hand experienced, there is al- 1950 degrees Fahrenheit. build an item. There are ways a sharing of ideas to By Linda Bozowski and the Mutual, but also (and this (Continued on page 2) Joe Conti is the really hard part) to re- pattern books for ideas and improve everyone’s talents. Sitting down with Judie mind residents to abide by Sforza, a resident since the terms of the Mutual docu- 2000, was a history lesson ments, to which they agreed A living will is important about recent years in our when signing their Member- community filled with her ship Applications” says By Kaytie Olshefski, illness if unable to speak for Although it is not an Ad- sense of optimism about its Sforza. In helping to stream- BSN, RN-BC yourself. This document vance Directive, it does future. Judie and her hus- line the standing committees There are several different also covers personal, spiri- provide for a seriously ill band Larry moved here after to three, Judie and the other forms available to make tual, medical, and legal ar- patient to have his or her living in several nearby members of the 18- member one’s last wishes known, eas. It provides for (1) a end-of-life wishes fulfilled. towns, and Judie has been Board of Governors tried to such as an Advance Direc- designated representative It is a one-page form com- an active participant in Ross- be mindful of members’ time tive, Five Wishes, and to work with the doctor, and pleted by the attending moor’s governance for the requirements and the pur- POLST. (2) for your end-of-life pref- doctor or nurse practitio- past 16 years. As a director poses of the committees. An Advance Directive is erences that family and ner with input from the pa- or associate director of Mu- The 18 Mutual Boards also also referred to as a Living friends can observe. Like tient. It calls for an open tual 10 over those years, and worked together to make the Will. This is a formal docu- an advance directive, it be- and honest conversation then in various roles as presi- rule of the Mutuals more uni- ment that allows you to ex- comes effective when you between doctor and pa- dent, secretary and treasurer form and completed the ma- press future health care deci- become seriously ill or are tient concerning goals, of RCAI from 2003 to 2009, jor portion of that task in sions, as to what type of unable to speak for your- treatments, medical inter- she has participated in sig- 2012. medical treatment you want self. ventions, CPR attempts, nificant changes to the com- Judie’s involvement with or do not want in certain All 50 states and coun- intubation, mechanical in- munity’s organization and Rossmoor goes back beyond situations, such as tube feed- tries around the world use tervention, and tube feed- helped oversee major reno- her own residence here. Her ings, life support, or dialysis. this form. In New Jersey, it ings. The POLST form is vations during her tenure. parents moved here in 1984, It will go into effect only when meets the legal requirement usually completed when a Her role as chairperson of and Judie decided at that you have a terminal illness or as an Advance Directive. patient’s condition deterio- the Finance Committee has time that this is where she are unable to make your own Like an Advance Directive, rates and there is limited extended over the past would like to live. Judie’s decisions. it can be changed, but the life expectancy. The medi- seven years. mother Loretta Hummel was Although this document former document must be cal team, the patient, and “A director’s role involves an active volunteer in the can be revoked at any time, it destroyed and all the peo- the patient’s family make fiduciary responsibility for the community as well, and is extremely important to in- ple involved need to be the decisions about treat- budget and maintenance of (Continued on page 3) form your doctor, family, and made aware there has been ment. anyone else who has a copy, a change. This form differs from an that you have made changes If you already have an Ad- Advance Directive and Five to the document. Have them vance Directive and you Wishes in that these two are Inside this issue destroy the previous Ad- would prefer to have a Five usually completed before a vance Directive or Living Will Wishes document, all you serious illness. The POLST Bits & Pieces .................. 2 New Neighbors ............ 11 and give them the new, re- need do is fill out the new form does not replace an Clubs ............................ 13 RCAI Meetings ............... 2 vised document. document and sign it. As Advance Directive or Five Five Wishes is another noted, inform all the people Wishes document, but com- Culinary Corner ............ 12 Religion ........................ 21 document that may be used involved and destroy the pre- plements it. Fitness Corner ............... 3 Sports ........................... 20 to express one’s wishes. It vious Advance Directive Some hospitals and nurs- Landscaping ................. 22 Swimming Pool Rules .. 26 is easy to read and under- document. ing facilities continue to use stand, and allows you to POLST stands for Prac- Do Not Resuscitate orders Maintenance ................. 22 This Month in pictures .. 14 direct what care you would titioner Orders for Life- along with POLST. If you or Musings .......................... 5 Transportation Tidbits .. 24 want in the case of serious Sustaining Treatments. (Continued on page 2) 2 AUGUST 2016 The Rossmoor NEWS Focus on: Groups and Clubs Bits & Pieces By Jean Houvener Sue Ortiz (Continued from page 1) create them, with all sorts putting away paints, glazes, It was 5:15 p.m. at the Someone from the back of The process needs to occur of unexpected items to hold and storing items on the “in South Brunswick DMV; it the line sent her five-year-old during the day since various and shape an item, from a process” shelves. Under wasn’t one of the first, or last, girl on reconnaissance to the adjustments need to be lampshade to cookie cut- the plastic covering the ta- days of the month, but it sure front. Sneaky! Sorry, but you made to the kiln so the heat ters, to stamps, cake deco- bles is a sign, “Your mother seemed like it. People of all are not cutting the line, no gradually increases. rations, and various doesn’t work here. Please shapes and sizes were lined matter how cute you are. After this first firing, the shapes. These items are all clean up after yourself.” up like a 1930’s bread line. As the lined moved, I saw greenware has become stored with the molds. When noon arrives, every- The assortment of languages a sign posted on the door: bisqueware. Again a choice At the end of each ses- thing is clean, neat, and being spoken was a smor- “Due to heavy volume, all can be made, either to sion, the individuals clean orderly again in anticipation gasbord for the ears.

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