Too often, caregivers of loved ones tend to make their own self-care and well being their last priority. But if you don’t look after yourself, how can you assist your loved one?
This Valentine’s Day, be bold and loving – start an Advance Care Planning conversation with someone you love.
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.
Why does a New Year’s resolution have to be all about “me”? Lose weight. Reduce debt. Close a big business deal. Develop your personal “SMART” goals. How about a resolution that can impact those closest to you forever? It’s not…
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,…
Is Christmas difficult this year because you will be missing a loved one? Are you wondering how you’ll manage without them? Here are 7 strategies that you can use right now to help you cope with Christmas.
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…
The Christmas holiday is a very special time, as it is an important time to connect with family and friends, and celebrate together the events and developments that have taken place that year. For some people though, Christmas is a…