Hospice & Palliative Care: Know Your Options
If you’re caring for an aging relative or coping with a serious illness, a healthcare provider might one day ask you to consider palliative care or hospice services. This can be confusing as many patients and families aren’t aware that there are palliative care options that aren’t hospice. It also can be scary to hear these words, as they often are associated with end-of-life care. However, connecting with the right services at the right time is key for patient quality of life and caregiver support.
How to Find an Anchor When You Feel Adrift
Feeling adrift in life can be descriptive of a host of related emotions. For example, it could connote boredom, exhaustion, emptiness, loneliness, or deeper questions about what makes life meaningful. All of these emotions can be triggered by internal factors as well as factors outside of us that impact our lives and our ability to cope with stressors.
Feeling the January Blues? There’s Hope.
Spring might be a few months away, but you don’t have to wait until April to start feeling better. When you find yourself feeling down and experiencing the January blues, here are a few strategies to consider for lifting your mood.
When Someone You Love is Grieving
Grief is as individual as those who experience it, so there’s no such thing as a “how-to” guide for helping a grieving friend. Part of supporting a person in mourning is to sensitively assess what would be most helpful to them given their personality and circumstances. However, there is some general guidance we can all keep in mind for more effectively supporting a loved one who is grieving.
Feeling the Holiday Pressure? Quick Tips to Keep Your Cool
At their best, holidays may evoke feelings of joy and goodwill. However, they can also be times of extra stress and emotional upheaval, especially for those who find it difficult to spend extended time with family.
Whether you’re about to blow your top while sitting in interstate traffic or at the dinner table with Uncle Dave, here are some tips to help you keep your cool throughout the holiday season.
Why Am I Still Sad?Understanding Grief
Grief is a natural response to all kinds of loss - changing relationships, losing a job, moving to a new city, experiencing decreased physical or mental functioning, confronting death, or even becoming disillusioned about the state of the world. Grief may continue to wash over us in waves for weeks, months, or even years after a significant loss. However, understanding grief and our response to it may help us cope with the waves when they come.