Emergency Planning Kit

To create a personal “What to Do in an Emergency” book, download the following
documents. The documents are “fillable” on your computer, or you can print and fill them
out by hand.

Downloads


Form 1 Personal Identification 
Form 2 Contacts 
Form 3 Pets and Animals
Form 4 Medical 
Form 5 Household Staff 
Form 6 Home 
Form 7 Vehicles-Property 
Form 8 Financial Summary 
Form 9 Devices and Digital 

For assistance creating this book, consider the Emergency Planning for Expats class. (See our Class List.)

Advanced Care Planning

  • Learn everything you need to know to create an Advance Care Directive that is valid in Mexico.
  • Two in-person sessions held at Lake Chapala Society, Ajijic
  • Offered 4 times each year by Loretta Downs

Register at Lake Chapala Society in Ajijic or at https://lakechapalasociety.com/ (On the
Education menu, choose Educational Programs)

Emergency Planning for Expats

Life happens fast. Are you ready for an emergency?
  • Create your personal “What to do in an Emergency” book under the guidance of a seasoned resident.
  • Four online (Zoom) sessions that allow you to work from your own home and computer.
  • Offered several times a year by Shelly Stokes

For information on the next available class, send a message to Shelly. (email link to
lakechapalaexpat@gmail.com)

Find more resources down here

📚 Doula Resources – Books

  • Being Mortal — Atul Gawande
  • Death Nesting — Anne-Marie Keppel
  • Finish Strong, Putting Your Priorities First at Life’s End — Barbara Coombs Lee
  • Final Exit (3rd Edition) — Derek Humphrey
  • Caring for the Dying, The Doula Approach to a Meaningful Life — Henry Fersko-Weiss
  • Nothing To Fear — Julie McFadden, RN
  • The VSED Handbook — Kate Christie
  • Final Gifts — Maggie Callahan
  • Thanks! How Practicing Gratitude Can Make You Happy — Robert Emmons
  • The Good Death Book — Susan O’Brian
  • 7 Lessons for Living from the Dying — Dr. Karen Wyatt
  • Briefly, Perfectly Human — Alua Arthur
  • The Five Invitations — Frank Ostaseski

📚 Doula Resources – Books

📚 Legacy Work

  • Local — Writing Your Story/Photography and Video — Alicia Knox, 52.951.654.3529, aliciaknoxfotos@gmail.com
  • Local— Writing you stories, group setting — Jane Lazar
    lazasr.jane@gmail.com
  • local— Shelly Stokes — shelly@chapalaexpat.com
  • Website — Legacy and Life Review (with sample questions)

📚 Local End of Life Medical Resources

  • Caregiver Paid and Nursing Facility — contact: Claudia Navarro
    Provides in-home trained caregivers — 333 954 1315
  • Medical Supplies — Lake Care Lidia Zamudio Cerda – Ajijic — 376 766 2088 , 333 156 9080
  • Medical Supplies — Chapala Medical Supply Mari Guzman assistant to Dr Sam Thelin — https://chapalamedicalsupplyco.com/, 52 331 197 6375
  • Nurses — Mari Guzman assistant to Dr Sam Thelin Provides nurses — 52 331 197 6375
  • Nursing and Medical In-home Support — Ochoa Faviio Ochoa Spanish/English 24-hour nursing & general care, Meds administration including IV — Enfermería Integral, 331 608 9709, enfermeria.integral.fo@gmail.com
  • Nursing Support, Local — Hearts and Hands Nursing Solutions, Paid nursing visits, Medical Equipment rental, Wound care — Jalisco Health Department service: 333 823 3220, 333 059 2707 (English), 333 968 1797
  • End of Life Care Doctor — Dr. Juan Pablo Loza Mendez — 333 141 3364
  • End of Life Care Doctor — Dr. Ana Paula Hernandez Quality Care — 332 785 0259, 332 050 4009, 333 502 4299, anapaulx@gmail.com
  • End of Life Care Doctor — Dr. Alejandra Valencia Geriatric, Pain, Palliative — dra.alejandravalencia@gmail.com, 33 2906 4156, San Antonio Hospital, Casa Nostra

  • End of Life Care Doctor — Dr. Sam Thelin Hidalgo 79 G Riberas del Pilar — https://drthelin.com/, 331 282 4445, 376 756 3692, sam@drthelin.com

  • End of Life Care — Lakeside Medical Group offers palliative care — 376 766 0395, Carretera Hidalgo #148-A 45922 San Antonio Tlayacapan
  • Speech Therapy — Jan Braverman — janbrave@aol.com
  • Nurses — Hearts and Hands Nursing and Caregiving Chapala area and Guadalajara — 52 333 968 1797, 52 333 059 2707

📚 Assisted Living Consultants

  • Betty Steinhauer — 3312470629, bettysteinauer@gmail.com
  • Tania Brown — +1 415 139 8276
  • Wendy Jane Carrel, Mexico Senior Living and Geriatric Care Consultant — wellnessshepherd@aol.com
  • Contact us for a comprehensive list of local assisted living homes

📚 Local Funeral & Cremation

  • Funeraria Chapala — Morelos 179, Chapala Centro
  • Funeraria San Francisco — C. López Cotilla 298, Chapala Centro
  • Capillas Moreh Jocotepec — Independencia Nte. 20, Jocotepec Centro (1 of 5+ in Joco)
  • Affordable Funeral and Cremación Gonsálaz — Guadalajara — 333 665 8146, 331 243 4068, www.agenciafuneraliagonzalez.mx

📚 Grief

📚 On-Line Resources

📚 Other Resoursces

  • Video Netflix — Endgame, Extremis
  • Video Netflix — 100 Days With Tata (Spanish with subtitles)
  • Video Youtube — Being Mortal, Atul Gawande — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mviU9OeufA0&t=8s
  • Video Youtube — Grief as Portal for Growth and Evolution, Wilka Roig
  • Video Youtube channel — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation Central Mexico — https://www.youtube.com/@fundacionekrmexicocentro
  • Video Youtube/Ted Talk — What really matters at the end of life — B.J. Miller
  • Podcast — https://geripal.org/ — A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast
  • Podcast/Amazon.com — End-of-Life University, Karen Wyatt M.D.
  • Death Cafe Ajijic — 1st Friday of every month, 2 pm to 3:30, arrive by 1:45; Estrellita’s Bed and Breakfast/El Gato Feo coffee shop, 16 De Septiembre #18, Ajijic Centro — Meredith Ann Murray, Website International: https://deathcafe.com/
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