Newtown Quaker Meeting to Hear Susan Hoskins, LCSW, Executive Director of the Princeton Senior Resource Center

Susan W. Hoskins, member of Newtown Friends Meeting and Executive Director of the Princeton Senior Resource Center, will lead a discussion on Conversations About the End of Life: Healthcare Directives on Sunday November 22 at 9:45 a.m. for the Adult Class at Newtown Quaker Meeting, 219 Court Street. The public is invited to attend.

Susan Hoskins said, “Naming someone to be your decision maker and completing a written directive is a great start, but not enough in today’s complex healthcare environment. This program will talk about having ‘the conversation’ with family, friends and healthcare professionals to let them know how we envision the end of life and how we want to be cared for.”

Susan said these conversations are not easy to have in our death-denying culture. “It is often easiest to have a series of discussions over time when opportunities arise. This also facilitates sharing preferences that change as we see what others choose and as we face unforeseen health conditions or new treatments. The program will review key components of the conversation and suggestions for how to start it.”

Susan W. Hoskins LCSW has been the Executive Director of the Princeton Senior Resource Center for 14 years. PSRC is the Princeton area’s go-to place where older adults and their families find support, guidance, educational and social programs to help navigate life transitions and continue to be active, healthy and engaged in the community.​

Susan has been active in the Princeton Mayor’s Wellness Campaign, working with the New Jersey Healthcare Quality Institute to increase awareness and participation in healthcare directives statewide. They recently hosted Dr. Angelo Volandes, author of The Conversation. PSRC has also been offering workshops on healthcare directives and Susan has facilitated a monthly group, “Conversations on Being Mortal” based on the book Being Mortal by Dr. Atul Gawande.

Susan Hoskins is a graduate of George School, has her B.A. degree from Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, and her MSW from Rutgers Graduate School of Social Work. She and her husband Scott, a teacher at George School, live in Langhorne. Their two sons graduated from Newtown Friends School and George School. Daniel is now a senior at Earlham College, and Nicholas is in the digital production industry in Los Angeles.

Newtown Friends Meeting co-founded by “Peaceable Kingdom” painter and Quaker minister, Edward Hicks, in 1815, is open to all who wish to attend. Regular First Day Education classes (Sunday School) for all ages begin at 9:45 a.m. and Meeting for Worship begins at 11 a.m. Childcare is provided.

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