Family game night is a popular pastime with board games that invite players to engage a variety of strategies and goals in order to win. Oddly enough, comparisons may be easily drawn between people’s experience of board games and their experience with various kinds of … [Read more...]
End-of-life Planning for Lung Disease
Typically, polite society will tell us that the two major topics to avoid at all costs during discussion are religion and politics. Those are hard enough to avoid since both are cornerstone experiences of the history of humanity and daily experiences even in the … [Read more...]
Understanding Late stage Dementia
Red sky at night, sailors’ delight Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning. The adage has been in documented use for at least two millennia and even appears in William Shakespeare’s poetry. Reading the sky is an ancient method of reading the signs of the sky for … [Read more...]
Benefits of Hospice for Lung Cancer Patients
In wealthy regions of the United States, an opportunity to live high on a precipice overlooking a landscape or water is the most expensive property available. Think of the homes of Malibu overlooking the Pacific and New York City skyscraper apartments: beautiful … [Read more...]
End-of-Life Planning for Patients With End-Stage Renal Disease
Beans, beans, they’re good for the heart! The more you eat the more you… Well, you probably know the end of that poem! Kids (and maybe adults, too?) love that playground rhyme because of its puerile reference to flatulence. However, put a plate full of beans in front of … [Read more...]
Pain Management During End-of-life Care
“What would you like on your tombstone?” is the tagline of the Tombstone Pizza commercials. Menacing men stand over the condemned asking the question, and the one about to meet their end comically replies, “cheese and pepperoni!” It’s funny for the commercial because of … [Read more...]
Dementia Types Treatment and Symptoms
Whether it is the topic of a local broadcast or an article in our favorite publication, we often hear of how dementia is affecting our society. But younger generations in particular may not know what dementia is and simply think, “it is something that happens when you … [Read more...]
What happens during the final days of life?
End-of-life is a confusing time for both patients and their families. We all understand that end-of-life means the final phase in life but, oftentimes we don’t know what this phase entails. The responsibilities of the primary caregiver will be altered significantly as a … [Read more...]
Pain Management During End of life Care
From the very beginning of life we’re pain-averse. Little ones dread annual injections and no one likes scraping knees and elbows while learning to walk. Even from an early age we seek out ways to manage pain. Dad’s kiss boo-boo’s and Mom’s “fix it” with a Band-Aid. … [Read more...]
How Hospice Helps Colon & Rectal Cancer Patients
With the exception of various forms of skin cancer, colorectal cancer has been found to be the third most commonly diagnosed form of cancer in both men and women. “Colorectal” refers to colon cancer and rectal cancer. According to the American Cancer Society, … [Read more...]
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