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 [...]
Check out other articles about complementary therapies and palliative care. The first was on the power of music at the end of life, the second was on the role of art therapy in palliative care, and a final post on the comforting touch of palliative massage therapy. Our series on complementary therapies [...]
Find out how visualizing peaceful, relaxing images from nature or elsewhere in life can help those in their final months and days.
Current research and media have proven over and over the beauty and efficacy of engaging therapy animals at end of life.
Touch is one of the first ways to communicate with a newborn, and one of the last ways to connect with a dying person. Massage can still offer pleasure as we begin our journey of active dying. Family and friends, who often feel there is nothing they can do for [...]
In this second in our series about complementary therapies and palliative care, Art Therapist in training – Dorothy Mackintosh – tells us how art therapy has the power to improve quality of life for loved ones and caregivers alike. Art therapy and art as therapy became my life-line after my own [...]
