Hospice is end-of-life care. Many people associate hospice with cancer patients who no longer wish to receive treatment, but hospice care is an option for anyone with 6 months or fewer to live. When you decide to start hospice, treatments meant to cure your condition or extend your life will stop. Instead, you’ll receive care […]
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More adults die at home than in the hospital, according to a New England Journal of Medicine 2019 study. Terminally-ill patients can greatly benefit from hospice care. But, it’s important to understand what hospice is, the benefits to patients and families, and how to access it. What is hospice care? Typically, hospice care begins when a
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By DAN ROBINSONKenton Times staff writer ADA — Caring for others is more than just a job to Lisha Wilkerson, RN. As the assistant supervisor at Community Health Professionals in Ada, she is one of four nurses who make home visits to check up on residents in Hardin, Hancock, and Allen counties. She may stop
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A frequent question of those who\’ve experienced loss is should I join a grief support group? While bereavement groups are generally positive, the decision to join one is unique to each individual. Each of us mourns death differently. Some people cope with their grief by themselves and do not want or need outside assistance, while others find
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For those who haven’t experienced it first-hand, the thought of hospice care can be frightening and mysterious. Caring hospice providers are here in our community to help guide families through the agony of losing a loved one. Lorie Garwood says the nurses at CHP Home Care & Hospice lent invaluable support to her family as
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CHP Home Care & Hospice is offering support for children and youth dealing with issues related to the loss of a special person in their lives. “Summer survival bags” and Rays of Hope Zoom group meetings are available through CHP Hospice each month this summer. Survival bags will include activities and lessons for kids to
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by Dr. Eileen Feliciano, Psychologist in NYS with a Psy.D. in the specialties of School and Clinical Psychology 1. Stick to a routine. Go to sleep and wake up at a reasonable time, write a schedule that is varied and includes time for work as well as self-care. 2. Dress for the social life you
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While non-essential services have halted after recent stay-at-home orders, local home care and hospice services remain available. CHP Home Care & Hospice and Defiance Area Inpatient Hospice Center are open and providing patients and families the care they need. \”We are absolutely open for business, providing nursing visits and accepting new patients,” said Ronda Lewis, RN,
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By JENNIFER DEMPSEY Paulding Progress Editor A few weeks ago, I was asked if I would like to ride along with a home health nurse from Community Health Professionals. Since I am usually willing to try out new things, I agreed right away. CHP Home Care & Hospice is based out of Van Wert. They
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Chad Cluts of Payne sometimes refers to his home health nurse, Mary Lichty, RN, as “Mary Poppins” because she usually has a song to sing, which is like the “Spoonful of Sugar” that “helps the medicine go down.” Cluts was paralyzed in an automobile accident when he was in his 20s and lives in a
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