November is National Home Care & Hospice Month. The most common myth about hospice is that it means a patient is “giving up hope” to live. Choosing to have hospice care, is actually the opposite of giving up. Hospice is choosing a philosophy of care that focuses on providing the best quality of life wherever […]
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Providing care for an aging or disabled loved one is hard work. It’s also a labor of love, but it’s still labor and even the best caregivers get tired and reach their limit. You can’t provide good care if you don’t take care of yourself. That isn’t good for you. And it isn’t good for
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Caregivers often give their all to loved ones needing help. But the hard work of tending to the needs of others takes a toll. How can caregivers find that refreshing well to draw from? Is there a way to refill when that well is low? One of the signs that a caregiver is “running dry”
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Saying goodbye when a loved one is seriously ill can seem unbearable. But your loved one doesn’t have to suffer unnecessarily. Instead of continuing painful and tiresome treatments until their last moments, care can be focused on quality of life. CHP Hospice is here to help when a serious illness becomes terminal. What is hospice
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It’s highly unusual for hospice patients to “recover.” The diseases that prompt people to come into hospice in the first place are conditions that by definition are not curable. However, it’s not uncommon for patients to experience stabilization of their condition—and they no longer qualify for hospice services. Patients with chronic, progressive diseases such as
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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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