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How Hospice Care Can Help With Social Wellness
With July being Social Wellness Month, it’s only fitting that we touch on how hospice care in San Francisco and elsewhere can help promote social health. Social wellness involves nurturing yourself and your relationships with others, giving and receiving social support through trying times,…
How to Safely Include Your Loved One in Family Celebrations This Summer
After this year’s July 4th celebration, you may be thinking of more ways of including your loved ones in family celebrations this summer. This can be tough if your loved one is in end-of-life care in Santa Clara and elsewhere.…
Professional Bereavement Services Can Be a Life Saver
Whether you are facing an impending loss of a loved one in hospice or you have just experienced that loss, you may feel alone in your grief as you navigate a life without them. It may feel as though you…
Why Scleroderma Can Be Difficult to Diagnose Correctly
June is National Scleroderma Awareness Month, so if you have a loved one in San Mateo and elsewhere who suffers from this condition and is in hospice care, this week’s article may be of interest to you. Because scleroderma takes…
Getting Back to Normal After a Loss
Loss can be soul-crushing and gut-wrenching, but at some point, things start to stabilize a bit and you’re faced with a “new normal.” By normal, we don’t mean you forget your loved one and are happy as a clam. What…
When It’s Not Alzheimer’s: Similar Symptoms to be Aware Of
As we enter Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness Month in June, we take this time to explore the many symptoms of dementia and why all roads don’t lead to Alzheimer’s per se. Many illnesses and conditions have very similar symptoms to…
Caring For Aphasia Patients at End-Of-Life
Aphasia is a communication disorder that impairs the ability to process language but doesn’t affect intelligence. Caring for aphasia patients at the end of life takes dedication and knowledge of the disease to help them communicate properly with their care…
A Big Thanks to the Do-It-All Nurses of Hospice Care
May is a month of being thankful for our nurses! From National Nurses Day on May 6 to Skilled Nursing Care Week from May 9 through 15, there are many opportunities to express our thanks for the do-it-all nurses, especially…
Demystifying the Process of Grief
There is nothing mysterious about grief. It’s a very real emotion, and it’s one of the most common experienced by human beings. Most grief goes through set stages, sometimes in order and sometimes not. Other types of grief linger for…
Important Decisions After a Stroke
After suffering a stroke, important decisions have to made — fast — about the care, treatment, and approach for the patient, including the decision to enter end-of-life care in Alameda County and elsewhere. As it’s National Stroke Awareness Month, May is a…
