The Gift of Love at the End-of-Life
Everyone loves gifts, right!?! When you think of end-of-life decision making and planning, you typically do not think of gifts, but it...
'My Soul And My Role Aligned' - How Hospice Workers Deal With Death
Cleveland - It is 7:30 on a summer morning in a chapel -like room overlooking the slate - gray, lapping waters of Lake Erie. Ten or se...
Why We Need to Take Pet Loss Seriously
How to handle grief after a pet’s death—and why we all need to change our attitudes about it Doug’s amateur soccer team had just lost...
What The Death Of My Daughter Is Teaching Me About Grief
On July 24, an orca named Tahlequah (also know as J35) gave birth to a calf that lived for less than an hour. Afterward, Tahlequah...
Hospice…What?!?
Hospice is a word that should be welcomed and not feared. It is almost certain when you say the word hospice in the community that it is me
Modern Love’s ‘Marry My Husband’ Essay Has A Follow-Up, 1 Year After Writer’s Death
Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s husband writes of the “new future” his dying wife’s New York Times column gave him. As she was dying of ovarian...
Grief After Traumatic Loss
Okay, So What is Traumatic Loss? There’s variation in how traumatic loss is defined in the research, but for our purposes, I think this...
5 Tips for Visiting A Relative With Dementia in Hospice
Research shows that 44.7 percent of hospice patients are diagnosed with dementia, and the condition can be painful for visitors. You...
End- Stage Dementia: When to Seek Hospice Care
Dementia is a progressive illness for which there is currently no cure. Each person stricken with dementia will experience the disease...
The Long Goodbye: Coping with Sadness and Grief Before A Loved One Dies
For years before her death at age 96, Nancy Lundebjerg’s mother underwent a long, slow decline. Arthritis made it hard for Margaret...
