Today, on Table Talk, Miss R joined us for 30-minutes of insights and reflections. (You can listen to our show via the player at the bottom of this post.)
One topic we discussed was particularly heart-felt. Miss R candidly spoke about her current worry: Will today be the day she enters her grandmother’s room and finds [...]
Just the other day, a few visitors were directed to our website after searching Google for this information:
feeding tube decision
removing a feeding tube
And, Dilys, one of our bloggers, posted an entry earlier this week about her mum’s hospitalization and the doctors’ suggestion that a feeding tube be inserted.
Wondering about whether to insert a feeding tube [...]
This morning, Dr. Daniel Maison, Vice President for Medical Services and Chief Medical Officer at Treasure Coast Hospice, Stuart, Fla., joined us for a discussion about end-of-life decisions on Your Caregiving Journey. (Dr. Maison is also Physician Section Leader for National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s National Council of Hospice and Palliative Professionals and Clinical [...]
Today on Table Talk, we spoke about your caregiving fears. (You can listen to the show via the player at the end of this post.)
A few suggestions to help manage your fears:
–Your fears can help you pinpoint your need for help, resources, information or just comfort. Consider: What can you learn from your fears?
–Your “No’s” [...]
(Editor’s Note: Over the past few days, we’ve been sharing articles to help you with difficult decisions. The Hospice Institute of the Florida Suncoast shared the following article, courtesy of Caregiving at Life’s End: The National Train the Trainer Program, to help you make end-of-life decisions.)
Throughout the experience of caregiving you may be faced with [...]
It’s the question you may dread the most: The doctor has indicated that your care recipient will continue to lose weight and suggests a feeding tube.
Should you say “yes”?
We asked Dr. Terrie Ginsberg [...]
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This is hard to hear, but important to know: When caring for an aging relative, you are helping a family member die well.
The process of helping someone to die well begins early on in your caregiving journey. It begins when you first hear a diagnosis. Or, when you first notice that your mother just isn’t [...]
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Hi Denise,
First, I want to thank you for offering your help and for all the help you’ve been giving. Bless You!
Here’s my situation: My mom has dementia of the frontal lobe. Her first diagnose was verbal aphasia. It’s years later, my Mom is in a care facility on the dementia floor. She hasn’t spoken in [...]
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I sat down to the breakfast table this morning with two waffles topped with butter, blueberries and syrup. The cranberry juice was straight-out-of-the-fridge cold. Ahhh… Life is good.
I opened the front section of the Chicago Tribune, perusing page-by-page until I arrived to the Letters to the Editor section. Hmm… The debate over end-of-life discussions has [...]
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Dear Denise,
I’m writing to you on behalf of my neighbors. We have walked together in the mornings and have played euchre together for 18 years.
Now one of these fabulous women is caring for her mother who is battling breast cancer. The prognosis is not good and our friend has moved in with her mother in [...]
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