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Caring for aging parents: Chronic Illness >

Heart and kidney failure, frailty, Alzheimer’s, Lung disease, Diabetes, Cancer

Comfort Care and Quality of Life >

The Palliative and Hospice approach: comfort and quality of life is what it’s all about

Understanding Medical Terms and Jargon >

Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation: CPR; Do Not Resuscitate: DNR; Allow Natural Death: AND

Culture, Traditions and Being Remembered >

Time honored customs can help at life’s end, and to keep memories alive.

Modern Medicine can keep you alive >

Heroic Measures: CPR, Breathing Machines, Feeding Tubes, Medications.

End of Life: Grief and Bereavement >

Knowing what End of Life looks like can ease the process; often grief starts long before the end.

Decision Makers: Consent and Conflict >

Surrogate, Substitute, Agent, Proxy: who will make sure your end of life wishes are followed.

Advance Directives

Advance Directives, Living Wills, Estate Plans, Financial Plans, Power of Attorney, Funeral Plans.

End of Life Planning Blog

Live in memory, Live in love

Live in memory, Live in love

This is Sam, my father-in-law.  He's going into his 103 year, and is still smiling. Yet every night,  his last words before falling asleep: God, please let me die He's not suffering in any major way: the swollen ankles and chronically congested chest don't bother him...

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Alzheimer’s Caregiver, Daughter-in-law

Tina's story of Alzheimer's: love and understanding I was fortunate enough to walk through a journey of Alzheimer’s by my father-in-law’s side. Together we mastered the mysteries, the fears and the utter atrocity that the disease brings and we also discovered a deep...

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Live in memory, Live in love

This is Sam, my father-in-law.  He's going into his 103 year, and is still smiling. Yet every night,  his last words before falling asleep: God, please let me die He's not suffering in any major way: the swollen ankles and chronically congested chest don't bother him...

read more

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