Music Therapy Can Increase Quality of Life for Those in Hospice
For many, music from certain eras can bring back memories of better times. For others, music soothes anxiety or gets them pumped up for...
For many, music from certain eras can bring back memories of better times. For others, music soothes anxiety or gets them pumped up for...
“Carol!” The hospice nurse’s voice was quiet but urgent. I instinctively knew what was happening. She had been shifting Dad’s position so that he...
Like most adults, I’ve second-guessed many of my own decisions. While most were made with my own future in mind, that all changed when...
If we could control events, most of us would never want our elders to be so sick that they need the care of a nursing...
Emergency room doctor Kevin Haselhorst had an epiphany while he tried valiantly to save an elderly man who’d been through one-too-many traumas. His book, “Wishes...
In my view, everyone over the age of 18 ought to have appropriate health care and financial documents that will assign a trusted person to...
Hospice is about refocusing goals My parents both spent their last months on hospice care, and I’ll forever be grateful. Dad’s dementia had made...
Like most adults, I’ve second-guessed many of my own decisions. While most were made with my own future in mind, that all changed when...
When my mother died in a local nursing home, my “career” of visiting this exceptional facility nearly every day for almost 15 years ended....
DR. GAIL GROSS, Ph.D., doctor of education, is a nationally recognized family, child development, and human behavior expert, author, and educator. She has contributed to...