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.
The Jewish tradition has so much to teach us about grieving and dying and atonement. Yom Kippur, I’ve now learned, is about not looking away from one’s mortality but practicing for it.
Opinion | A Dress Rehearsal for Our Deaths
Yom Kippur asks us to look our mortality in the face. Can we sustain the stare?
nytimes.com
Watch to the end and grab some tissues .... it’s so important for the dying to be able to talk to kids truthfully about what’s happening to them.
Dying is living in nowness ...
Opinion | In Life’s Last Moments, Open a Window
My hospice patients were dying, but they still longed for fresh air and birdsong.
nytimes.com
Here's a wonderful Kootenay Coop Radio program memorializing Bill Moore, who was a former board member, wonderful supporter and participant at Hospice. We all learned so much from Bill and will remember his consummate story-telling, piano-playing and truth-telling wisdom for a long time.
Thumbdrive
Thumbdrive originally aired bi-weekly in the Fall season of 2016. The show featured Stephanie Myers and her roommate, the late Bill Moore. "Bill is blind a
kootenaycoopradio.com
We talk a lot about ritual in our volunteer training, so that we all learn to develop tools to move us from grieving one client to supporting another. I love the power of private ritual ... and this shows it really helps!
If You Grieve in Private, Science Says You’re Doing It Right
All my life, I've partaken in personal rituals to mourn my loved ones. Research suggests that doing so can help you find closure and experience less grief. Here's why.
healthline.com
Loving, like grieving, never ends.
What The Death Of My Daughter Is Teaching Me About Grief
As a bereaved parent, I hate the terms “moving on” and “healing.”
huffingtonpost.com