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Thursday, July 21, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n
STEPHENVILLE, Texas \u2014 Tarleton State University involved Panola County in a community give-and-take at the Turner Alumni Community Center in Carthage last month. The goal was to initiate conversations and an information exchange on crucial health issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The event featured a conversation game called Table Topics. Afterwards, participants received information about medical decision making and advance directives plus access to a prepaid notary if they would like to notarize their directives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAll of the information prepared everyone for situations they may not have considered before. The event helped participants gain access to materials for making their advance care plan and advance directives,\u201d said Tarleton communication Professor Dr. Jennifer T. Edwards, herself a Panola County native and Executive Director of Tarleton\u2019s Rural Communication Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Table Topics events grew out of an NIH-funded research study led by Lauren Jodi Van Scoy, MD, at the Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, through her research program, Project Talk. Hospice Foundation of America and the University of Kentucky are partners on the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dr. Edwards said community outreach like Table Topics events is crucial to improving healthcare decisions later in life. The Rural Communication Institute wants to help East Texas communities have conversations like these more often and more easily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Contact Dr. Edwards at jtedwards@tarleton.edu<\/a> or 254-307-1375. Pictures from the Carthage gathering are at http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NETXCounts\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tarleton State University involved Panola County in a community give-and-take at the Turner Alumni Community Center in Carthage last month. The goal was to initiate conversations and an information exchange on crucial health issues. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[382,423,424],"tags":[440,442],"class_list":["post-46692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage","category-academics-research","category-arts-events","tag-college-of-liberal-fine-arts","tag-community-events"],"acf":{"image":false},"author_meta":{"display_name":"keegan","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/author\/keegan-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2023\/10\/Spring-Flowers-Admin-Gates_7545-300x200.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["_Homepage<\/a>","Academics & Research<\/a>","Arts & Events<\/a>"],"unlinked":["_Homepage<\/span>","Academics & Research<\/span>","Arts & Events<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["College of Liberal & Fine Arts<\/a>","Community Events<\/a>"],"unlinked":["College of Liberal & Fine Arts<\/span>","Community Events<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 4 years ago","modified":"Updated 4 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on July 21, 2022","modified":"Updated on July 27, 2022"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on July 21, 2022 8:36 am","modified":"Updated on July 27, 2022 8:36 am"},"featured_img_caption":"Tarleton State University entrance with flags and flowers.","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}