'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...
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...
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...
12 Tips to Care for Caregivers This Holiday
Terry stacks the breakfast dishes into the sink, hands the freshly-packed lunchboxes to her son and daughter, bundles them into their...
Recognizing Hospice and Palliative Care Month
This year’s theme for National Hospice and Palliative Care Month is “It’s about how you live!” We’re working with NHPCO to organize presenta
Grief and the Holidays presentations
BSA Hospice of the Southwest is offering Grief and the Holidays presentations in November and December to share tips and ideas to reevaluate
