Watching a loved one face end of life care can be sad, overwhelming and confusing. Having a plan will help ease this burden. Also known as advance care planning, this plan will detail how your loved one wants to die…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Massage therapy can be relaxing and comforting for all ages, but hospice patients in particular can benefit immensely from this form of therapy that has been proven to provide significant improvement for pain, anxiety and health-related quality of life for…
With October being National Financial Planning Month, we thought it would be appropriate to discuss the key documents every senior should have as they navigate through home health care and hospice in Santa Clara and elsewhere. In 2016, for the…