Archive for April 2018

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Who wants to think about a time without their loved ones? It’s a very sad topic, which makes it easy to avoid. And yet, at an individual level, people do want to talk about their end of life. Get started with these five conversations.

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Professional Home Instead® CAREGiversSM share some of the moving experiences they’ve had caring for individuals at the end of life and ways they were able to bring comfort to both the client and family members during the final days.

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More at… http://thecaregiversvoice.com/voices-with-dementia/enterprising-businessman-navigates-life-with-dementia/ New Zealand-based husband and father of four inherits his father’s younger-onset Alzheimer’s. ENTERPRISING While participants at the Dementia New Zealand – Hawke’s Bay [Adult] Day Programme prepare to have their Thursday-morning tea, Alister Robertson steps into another room for a Zoom v… Read More

More at… http://thecaregiversvoice.com/tcv-review/in-30-minutes-guides-for-busy-caregivers/ The Caregiver’s Voice reviews four books from the In 30 Minutes series for caregivers who want to take the first or next step into Genealogy, Crowdfunding, LinkedIn, or Google Drive and Docs. Genealogy Basics Are you a family caregiver who wants to trace your ancestry? Genealogy Basics In 30 … Read More

More at… http://thecaregiverspace.org/long-miles-lonely-roads-in-rural-texas-dying-at-home-means-little-is-easy/ HASKELL COUNTY, Texas – To get to the house where Shawn Jordan wants to die, you drive a hypnotic road along miles of furrowed cotton fields, gnarly mesquite trees, low-to-the-ground cactus, and cattle perpetually in search of food. This iconic land of open spaces and oil pumps, where the Panh… Read More

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Funeral services used to be relatively standard affairs. Casket, officiant, prayers and burial. Nowadays? Gone are the rules, according to Dignity Memorial® representatives.

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