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Ensuring Quality of Life During End of Life Care
Quality of life: everyone wants it but what is it exactly? There are many definitions out there. It can mean the degree to which an individual is healthy, comfortable, and able to participate in life events. It can refer to…
The Power of Touch During Grief
Ask anyone who has recently lost a loved one what they miss most. Chances are, they miss the physical and emotional benefits of touch the most out of everything. As humans, we crave touch. Mother Teresa once said that even…
Anticipatory Grief When Caring For a Loved One With Dementia
Your loved one with dementia may still be alive, but you may be deep in the throes of grief already, feeling the weight and pain of the impending loss. This is called anticipatory grief and it refers to the emotional…
When Should You Consider Palliative Care For Your Senior Loved One?
Last month was World Hospice and Palliative Care Day — a unified day of action to celebrate and support hospice and palliative care around the globe. It’s never too late to raise awareness to the great need and benefit of…
Grief Can Have Very Real Physical Symptoms
We all know the loss of a loved one can leave a devastating wake of emotional destruction. However, the thing no one tells you is that grief can manifest itself physically as well, making you sick, causing you pain and…
Hospice Care and the Unique Issues of Veterans
About a million and a half people are serving in the U.S. military right now, but there were more than 20 million U.S. veterans living here as of 2016, representing nearly 10 percent of the total adult population. These brave…
The Effects of Alzheimer’s on the Physical Body
November is National Alzheimer’s Awareness Month, first designated back in 1983 by President Ronald Reagan, at which time only two million Americans suffered from the disease. Today, that number has soared to 5.7 million. Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form…
5 Things to Remember When You Are Grieving
Grieving the loss of a loved one after suffering a long illness in hospice is particularly heartbreaking. While hospice may have given you time to process the impending death and spend time with your parent, spouse or sibling, it’s still…
Is There a Link Between Diabetes and Alzheimer’s?
Approximately 21 million Americans suffer from diabetes, a disease that makes it difficult for the body to convert sugar to energy, with six million people unaware they even have it. Scientists have found a link between Type 2 diabetes (the…
5 Self-Care Tips to Help Lessen Grief
Losing someone you love fiercely is a life changer. Even if you’ve been able to prepare for the event, watching your loved one decline throughout hospice, the death is still a shock to the system. While grief is a normal…
