end of life care

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• wounded and enraged

  
  "there is no path, paths are made by walking." ~Antonio Machado — Authority: 130
  (Further to yesterday’s post)  I ran into grief’s cousin tonight and its name is anger . It happened as a friend made an innocent comment about hospice work and we suddenly found ourselves in a nasty argument. I felt angry and defensive (even aggressive)–a reaction that was inappropriate to the issue at ...
  1 week ago

• Hospice Care is a Gift for the Living

  
  SandwichINK.com — Authority: 425
  Hospice Care. If you’re not familiar with them, the words might not mean much to you. Or perhaps they send shudders down your spine since you know they deal with death and dying. Really though, hospice is about living. It’s about living peacefully while God allows you to finish your time here on earth, before He ...
  1 week ago

• stop fussing!

  
  "there is no path, paths are made by walking." ~Antonio Machado — Authority: 130
  My paid job at hospice ended two weeks ago and for the weeks leading up to it, and the one after, I was at a loss as to how I’d continue doing the work I’m called to do. Funny thing how what we look for is (often) right in front of us. As the man said, we don’t need new landscapes, merely new ways of seeing. ...
  1 week ago

• stop fussing!

  
  "there is no path, paths are made by walking." ~Antonio Machado — Authority: 130
  My paid job at hospice ended two weeks ago and for the weeks leading up to it, and the one after, I was at a loss as to how I’d continue doing the work I’m called to do. Funny thing how what we look for is (often) right in front of us. As the man said, we don’t need new landscapes, merely new eyes to see. ...
  1 week ago

• Does the RNC Want to Kill Granny?

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 801
  Remember how the RNC had to do an about face after the fact that their health insurance plan included abortion coverage? Guess what else their insurer, CIGNA, covers. Yup, "death panels." But ThinkProgress has noticed that Cigna, the RNC’s health insurance provider, also urges beneficiaries to think about ...
  1 week ago

• Wrapping up Gut Instinct and Too Much Information

  
  Notes from the Country Doctor — Authority: 114
  A reader recently commented on my post "Too Much Information" , "So...whats the outcome? Cant help but wonder.By the way, I really enjoy your writing! Thanks for sharing your story." First of all, I always appreciate when someone enjoys my writings and the stories I have to tell. While I obviously think they have ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Guide Sets the Baseline for a Quality End of Life Care Workforce

  
  Lancashire Care Library and Information Service — Authority: 145
  Common core competences and principles for health and social care workers working with adults at the end of life    JUNE 2009 National End of Life Care Programme Click on the title above to gain access to the full-text New Guide Sets the Baseline for a Quality End of Life Care Workforce Abstract
  2 weeks ago

• the dilemma of hope

  
  "there is no path, paths are made by walking." ~Antonio Machado — Authority: 130
  Hope can be confusing. A man diagnosed with terminal cancer asked me two months ago to help me prepare for death.  By the time we met, he’d given away his furniture, quit his job, sold the house, begun a steady process of divesting himself of worldly possessions. Within a few weeks of palliative medical care, ...
  2 weeks ago

• that persistent fear

  
  "there is no path, paths are made by walking." ~Antonio Machado — Authority: 130
  This morning I visited a person with cancer. She lives alone at home with her dog-friend of many years. I knock and enter. Many lights on and heater blasting. Kitchen counter cluttered with cartons of milk and orange juice, odds and ends, untidy. Laundry basked overflowing. My host barely gets out of her chair, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hospice Care, Part 5: Another Family’s Hospice Experience

  
  Tender Loving Eldercare — Authority: 112
  Barbara and Cindy, Mother-Daughter Team Cindy is a dear friend whom I met around 1980.  Together we’ve experienced many of life’s milestones — single life, finding our Mr. Right’s, weddings, married life, having children, watching them grow, and caring for our parents. Our mothers both spent their final ...
  2 weeks ago

• mom’s ashes

  
  "there is no path, paths are made by walking." ~Antonio Machado — Authority: 130
  Sunday: I’ll be posting late today, after having travelled ca. 100 km to assist a family of seven adults in scattering the ashes of their loved-one into a lake. What a generous offer, to include me in their ritual of remembrance and farewell. image borrowed from wilds.mb.ca.
  3 weeks ago

• Washington Post On Faith: Can Dying Be a Peak Experience?

  
  Deepak Chopra - Official Website — Authority: 139
  Does end-of-life care prolong life or does it prolong suffering? Should it be a part of health-care reform?As a humane gesture, comforting people at the end of their lives is valuable and has been part of the hospice movement, not to mention pastoral care, for a long time. As anyone who has spent time with [...]
  3 weeks ago

• sad, sad, sad.

  
  "there is no path, paths are made by walking." ~Antonio Machado — Authority: 130
  It finally got to me. By “it” I mean the awareness that I have to leave this job at hospice, and this loving community of co-workers. By “me” I mean all of me, not just the thinking me which had a month to get used to the idea, figure out why I couldn’t apply for the full-time position, return to ...
  3 weeks ago

• leaving is hard

  
  "there is no path, paths are made by walking." ~Antonio Machado — Authority: 130
  Each day at work someone comes up to say I didn’t know you were leaving. We work so many different shifts, some of us part-time, others 4 days on/4 days off, and sometimes it takes weeks before we reconnect. As I look into the speaker’s eyes, I detect concern and sadness; also love, underneath and above. Each ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Dementia End of Life Care Project (DeLCaP) – Supporting families caring for people with late stage dementia at home

  
  Lancashire Care Library and Information Service — Authority: 145
  The Dementia End of Life Care Project (DeLCaP) – Supporting families caring for people with late stage dementia at home, Dementia, Vol. 8, No. 3, 349-361 (2009) Chris Ghiotti Redbridge Dementia Partnership, UK Abstract: This article describes the development of a locally based project funded by ...
  4 weeks ago

• Roshi Joan Halifax: National Teachings on Contemplative End-of-Life Care for November, 2009

  
  Integral Options Cafe — Authority: 439
  Cool - Roshi is coming to Tucson ! November 11, 2009, 9AM-4PM, Durham, NC Cultivating the Inner Life Through Service: Contemplative Practices for Healthcare Professionals and Caregivers Duke Integrativ e Medicine, Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life and Project Compassion; to register: 866 313 0959 or ...
  5 weeks ago

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