Holidays like Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Diwali, Christmas (not to mention birthdays and anniversaries) can be very tough for those who have experienced loss. For people in grief, family gatherings and celebrations can highlight the absence of a special person. With some thought and planning, it is possible to get through the [...]
Written by Tammy Bruno, RN, BN, MN student I am a home care nurse manager from the Samson Cree Nation, located in Maskwacis Alberta (pronounced Musk-wah-chees), on Treaty 6 territory. I am a single mother of three boys and I have returned to graduate school to complete the Nurse Practitioner [...]
On an extremely cold Saturday afternoon in early February 2019, a group of people came together for AHPCA’s first-ever Death Cafe. This is the story of how we got there and what happened. In late summer 2018, Laura Walsh approached AHPCA, wondering if we would like to join forces to [...]
Grief is a funny thing. Although you can anticipate grief at times, you never really know when a wave of grief will hit. The April 6, 2018 Humboldt Saskatchewan bus/truck collision has no doubt caused a great deal of grief, and not just for those who lost a loved one [...]
The memory of the scent of the disinfectant squirt on my hands I used prior to entering my client’s hospice room still permeates my nostrils weeks later. If that is what lingers for me, what do the dying smell on their last few days? Our sense of smell is linked [...]
AHPCA’s series on complementary therapies and palliative care continues today with an article from Clarissa Maitri Snyder, a yoga teacher. What is Grief Yoga? Grief yoga teaches one to be open, present and accepting to what is happening within them at the moment. It uses simple yoga practices to transform [...]