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.
Our grief group is tonight ... are you curious about it? Read more about the positive and negatives of grief groups in this article from Victoria Hospice. It's important to know that while group's aren't for everyone, "[w]hen you feel totally alone and misunderstood by the world, the support group community can provide you with a haven of understanding."
Palliative Care Victoria
Interesting article from whatsyourgrief.com on 'Grief Support Groups: Positives and Pitfalls'.
Here's another great article that helps us understand what not to say, and how to be present for someone who is grieving or dying.
https://thetattooedbuddha.com/2018/11/09/please-stop-saying-everything-happens-for-a-reason/?fbclid=IwAR0F2Yaaue5o2kbZTTVDcnmZFHR3Z8Bpjec-owOdkbdjZsSKaVAM1d6axBU
https://thetattooedbuddha.com/2018/11/09/please-stop-saying-everything-happens-for-a-reason/?fbclid=IwAR0F2Yaaue5o2kbZTTVDcnmZFHR3Z8Bpjec-owOdkbdjZsSKaVAM1d6axBU
Please Stop Saying Everything Happens for a Reason | The Tattooed Buddha
This work needs community. It needs support. It calls us home to our collective humanity, the deep wisdom we carry, where we belong to and need each other.
thetattooedbuddha.com
Such a great interview with a hospice CEO ... but the part not to miss is the Dr.Seuss rap (at 16:45) of this man’s advanced directive .... it’s wonderful, thorough and probably represents what many healthy adults want their healthcare care representative to do!
Today is our regular weekly grief group so this post stood out for me. She so exactly expresses so many of the experiences of the grieving, especially grieving parents, and offers some very good advice to those of us who companion grievers. To “Just sit beside me” ... that experience couldn’t be more profound in these situations. And that’s what we do in our group.
Nelson Star was out covering our awesome work-a-thon this weekend and will report on that this week! Go to 1:29 in the video below ... and watch here for a report on our final numbers soon!
Nelson Star News
Bad news if you were expecting to take a Greyhound bus this week, people die a lot in the Kootenays, and some less depressing items in this week's roundup.
A very poignant story of what happens when patients and families are not counseled to fill out advance care planning paperwork (MOST and a notification of expected death in home in B.C.), before they leave a hospital admission to palliate at home.
When the Hospice Care System Fails
Your father was gasping for breath. The hospice care providers had not yet trained you in how to respond. So you called 911.
nytimes.com