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Working Caregiver- Strategies in Palliative Care & End of Life

Strategies for Palliatve Care at the End-Of-Life

We know the heartbreak seeing those who once guided us in our younger years are now infantile, unable and dependent. Our roles have reversed and it's saddening and depressing. It's a lighter load when with connect with like minded knowing your not alone.

End Of Life Articles

Mourning: Loss of a Spouse/Partner
If the death of parents and grandparents represent the loss of our connections to generations past, the death of a spouse/partner represents the loss of a major connection we have with the present and foreseeable future. [ Read More ]
Palliative Care - Looking at Hospice Now
This is not the way it used to be. No way would someone ever come home on a ventilator with hospice. Some may say hospice isn't about all this; and, I am really proud to be part of the hospice movement that responds to the person and family's definition of what it means 'to be comfortable.' [ Read More ]
Strategies in Palliative Care - When Hospice Started the Morphine
Medicine is part science and part art with a lot of unknowns in the mix and we can really never know how a person's body will be affected by the combination of his disease, treatments and medications. [ Read More ]
Fear of Dying... Addressing a piece of it
When we hear of someone dying, how is it described? How many of us are invited into the folds of a family to help care for someone as she dies? How many times do we have the honor of witnessing someone die? Was the person comfortable (successful palliative care) and peaceful or suffering (unsuccessful palliative care) during the days/weeks/months leading up to her death [ Read More ]
The Death of a Counselors Mother
Information and answers about coping with death of mother, dying, bereavement, grief, and mourning [ Read More ]