"Am I Going To Die Today?"
When doctors and healthcare professionals place a number on how long someone has to live they are doing that person a disservice.
When doctors and healthcare professionals place a number on how long someone has to live they are doing that person a disservice.
We start off alone, then we have Mom and Dad, then family, friends, then the world of school, activities,and involvement in the bigger world around us. When we are leaving, we...
Anger in caregiving generally comes from a place of frustration, of fear, of sadness, of tiredness. All sorts of feelings with no outlet so they come bursting out.
Most of the time this restlessness, this agitation is not destructive. It is not severe. If the movements become thrashing about or hurtful and become a danger to the person...
As for the “signs of what is to come” for someone who is young and dying, those signs are also the same for everyone, young and old. People dying from...
Hospice provides care and services for people in the last six months of their life. A doctor must specify, in his/her best opinion, that this person has less than six...
We human beings are complicated creatures. We approach death in the way we have approached living and according to our personality. Our belief systems are part of that living. Sometimes...
Filling out an Advance Directive when you are healthy is different than filling one out when you are elderly or living with a serious illness...
Our base nature comes out when we are in pain, other worldly, and on high doses of all kinds of medications. We are unconsciously expressing the terrible situation we were...
Number one, we are all going to die at some point. Of course the operative words here are “at some point.” If we are told death will be the outcome...
Hospice is widely known for providing end of life care. It has grown in size and in its original scope of services. Even its definition of “end of life care”...
All the work we do leads up to the moment of death. Our goal is to guide and support those present through the moment the last breath occurs.