Are You Prepared for the End_ The Power of Advanced Directives and Final Wishes – Yvonne Caputo on The Healers Café

In this episode of The Healers Café, Manon Bolliger, FCAH, RBHT, speaks with Yvonne Caputo about the transformative impact of discussing and documenting end-of-life wishes, including the use of Advanced Directives and the Five Wishes document, to ensure a peaceful and personalized passing.

For the transcript and full story go to: https://www.drmanonbolliger.com/yvonne-caputo   

Highlights from today's episode include:

Yvonne Caputo  07:13

It was such an indication to me about how much my father trusted me to do what he asked. You know, there was this bond, there was this trust, and that was his gift to me. You know, so do I grieve my father's loss? Absolutely!

Manon Bolliger 13:25

I lost my mom a couple of years ago, and she really did exactly...she died exactly how she wanted to. And, I mean, we had it down to even the obituary. She wanted to write it so it would say exactly what she wanted it, you know.

Yvonne Caputo  20:10

This is about you. This is about how you would like things to be. And she did that, and she said she sat down with her daughter, and they went over the document. She said it was one of the closest, loving, moving times of her life with that child,

 

ABOUT YVONNE CAPUTO

Yvonne Caputo has been a teacher.  She taught in the Erie Pennsylvania Public Schools for 18 years.  She has also been the Vice President of Human Resources at a retirement community, a corporate trainer and consultant, and a psychotherapist.  She has a master’s degree in education and clinical psychology.

Her book, Flying with Dad, is a story about her relationship with her father through his telling of World War II stories.  Her second book, Dying with Dad shares how she and her dad had tough conversations about what he wanted in the end.

She has always been a storyteller. She has used stories to widen students’ eyes and soften clients’ pain, and her stories have earned her rave reviews as a presenter and speaker.

Yvonne lives in Pennsylvania with her best friend, who is also her husband. Together they have three children, three grandchildren, and a bernedooodle.

Core purpose/passion: I am now deliciously semi-retired.  In that time, I have written two books, Flying with Dad and Dying with Dad. In the latter I talk about the conversations I had with my father about death and dying.  We made those conversations legal, and I spoke for him when he could no longer speak for himself.