By Kenneth J. Doka There is little more difficult than working through grief. After all, we may have to deal with a rand of confusing and even conflicting emotions that include sadness, anger, guilt, and perhaps, even relief. We may have to totally reorganize our lives, like learning to live alone. We may have to […]
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By Barbara Karnes If I stop treatment does it mean I stop trying? If I stop trying does it mean I’ll start dying? I don’t want to die. When faced with the above considerations, what decision do we make? How do we face the realization that “I am going to die”? Most of us go
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As we wrap up March and National Social Work Month, we focus on the unique role of home health and hospice social workers. CHP social workers advocate for each patient and provide emotional and practical support. They help patients and families with accepting a diagnosis, processing their grief, and meeting any life goals if possible.
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Palliative care can provide relief to people with severe, but not necessarily life-ending, health conditions. But often patients — and their doctors — don\’t realize they can take advantage of a team-based treatment approach that may include social workers and community support. What is Palliative Care? Palliative care is similar to hospice care in that
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Daniel Roebuck, an actor best known for roles including Deputy Marshal Robert Biggs in The Fugitive and its spinoff film U.S. Marshals, plus television roles in Lost, Matlock, and more, is coming to Bryan and Van Wert for showings of a 2017 film he wrote, directed, and starred in called, “Getting Grace.”
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Danny Mullins of Kenton depends on the home health care services he receives daily from CHP Home Care & Hospice. “I can’t do without them,” Mullins said of the home health aides who come to his home each day. “They’re the most important part of my life. Without them, I can’t do anything.” Aides from
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CHP Home Care & Hospice is partnering with local, family-owned pharmacies – Kaup Pharmacy in Fort Recovery, and Okuley\’s Pharmacy in Defiance – to provide pharmacy coverage for its hospice program.
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Robert Casper of Oakwood, Oh. and Carey Nance of Melrose, Oh. are going on a special trip this weekend to New York City, with a stop along the way at a state park in Pennsylvania. The trip is a wish granted to Casper by The Angel Foundation in Van Wert, a nonprofit organization that fulfills
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Local hospice services were in the spotlight at the 22nd CHP Hospice “Beacon of Hope” dinner/auction on Oct. 7 at the Junior Fair Building at the Van Wert County Fairgrounds. The families of the late Peter Clemens and Jane Mason spoke about their experiences with the CHP Hospice program. Peter Clemens family Clemens’ daughter, Jill
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By Barbara Karnes, RN I was talking with someone yesterday about labor. It takes labor to get into this world and labor to leave it. The similarities and the differences when we leave “home” and when we go “home”—-all labor, all hard work. Labor to enter the world I was a nurse’s aide in the
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