Mission Statement
Providing practical, emotional and spiritual support to individuals and their loved ones through the stages of dying, death and bereavement.
Hospice palliative care aims to make the last months of life comfortable, peaceful and dignified for patients and their caregivers by providing care, support, respite and advocacy. Our trained Hospice volunteers work as part of a caregiving team that could include community home nursing, doctors, hospital and facility staff, social workers and spiritual leaders.
If the prospect of Valentine’s Day is getting you down, try “reframing” the day with a little help from this article.
Grief and Valentine's Day
Grief and Valentine's Day traditionally don't mix very well. Here's one way to reframe the day for anyone missing a loved one on February 14th.
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“Working in the frontlines of raw humanity” requires really good intentional self-care. This palliative care doc has learned this well.
Dark days in Palliative Care – The importance of intentional self-care
I love my job as a Palliative Care doctor. There is nothing that I look forward to more on a Monday morning than meeting with our team, solving problems and helping to relieve suffering in our pati…
thehealthygp.com
Always good to be reminded about how to deal with your expressions of grief in the online world of social media ...
Please read this before you post another RIP on social media.
There is a hierarchy of grief.
upworthy.com
This one is always good to remember when someone you know has died.
Upworthy: Because we’re all part of the same story.
Stories that connect us and sometimes even change the world.
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Time for a Frank O. Infusion- He says there are really only two questions that matter at the end of life and we can answer them now.
End Well
Frank Ostaseski reminds us that two questions really matter at the end of our lives. Why wait until then to address them?
Taking some time tonight to read the poems of Mary Oliver, by far the most profound writer I think I’ve read in times of grief, who died Thursday. Here is one I’ve turned to again and again:
“In Blackwater Woods”
To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.
“In Blackwater Woods”
To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.