Life & Death Matters

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

It was a special trip, as both of our grandfathers fought in the world wars of the 20th century. My grandfather fought in the Battle of Ypres in World War […]. Ted and I travelled this past June to the Canadian Memorial at Vimy Ridge in Northern France and the Flanders Museum in Ypres in Belgium.

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Hospice News

JULY 22, 2022

After my grandfather died with at-home hospice care, I thought the things I was doing in the birth world could be translated to the death space. Deathwives was formed in 2019. Tell me more about what led to its launch and the type of services you provide. Merelli: I got into doulaship as a birth doula in 2009.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Later, I was working for Kaiser [Permanente] here in Atlanta, and they had a palliative care program where you could grandfather into hospice and palliative medicine. Later, I was working for Kaiser [Permanente] here in Atlanta, and they had a palliative care program where you could grandfather into hospice and palliative medicine.

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Today's Caregiver

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

My mother and I brought my 91-year-old grandfather in just a few hours earlier. I stood in the hospital emergency room with my mother, the ER doctor and the social worker. The next few words spoken by the social worker immediately jerked me back.

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Today's Caregiver

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

As we rapidly careen towards the 2022 holiday season, (“you must be kidding, Thanksgiving’s next week?”), I always think of the first year we celebrated Thanksgiving with my grandfather in the Adult Living Facility

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Today's Caregiver

MARCH 1, 2023

My grandfather went back to work at the tender age of 88, and it saved his life. No, it was not a fifth career for this energetic octogenarian, who had been a painting contractor, Seabee in WWII, home builder and artist. Gramp’s new job was actually

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Caregiver Support Services

DECEMBER 5, 2024

A Story Between a Young Girl and her Grandfather Before and after Alzheimer’s Disease Come Grandpa Meow, Let’s Fly tells the story of the changing relationship between a young girl and her grandfather before and after Alzheimer’s disease.

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Living Assistance Services

JUNE 7, 2023

Father’s Day is coming up on Sunday, June 18th—and while you may know your dad or grandfather well, it can be difficult to buy gifts for.

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Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Artunez’s grandfather was rushing her to the hospital. As the hospital’s labor and delivery director, she leaped into action. Dr. Janelle Cooper, an OB/GYN, was delivering Elsa Artunez’s baby in the backseat of a truck.

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Daily Nurse

APRIL 19, 2023

But in 2017, her grandfather had open-heart surgery. After graduating from Auburn University Montgomery with a bachelor’s in education, she began working at her grandmother’s daycare and loved working with preschoolers. Bullard knew she had to revert to her original plan of becoming a nurse. “I I knew then.

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Hospice 101

APRIL 27, 2020

My own grandmother and grandfather were able to maintain a long-distance relationship during World War II while my grandfather served overseas for years during the war. I think we all know a story of love through a long distance.

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AJN Off the Charts

MARCH 6, 2024

She also helped care for her grandfather who was in failing health, giving him daily insulin injections and attending to his care. And Gaby, who works two jobs to support her family and cares for her ailing grandfather, could have echoed, “Doesn’t that count for anything?” She dreamed of going to nursing school after graduation.

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Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

AUGUST 19, 2022

Her grandfather had suffered from an aneurysm and had to go through extensive therapy, but with the assistance of his little “helper,” Kamaria, he did quite well with his recovery. Freedom Home Care is proud to recognize Kamaria Singleton Reed, LPN as our Nurse of the Month!

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AJN Off the Charts

JUNE 6, 2023

The grandfather clock chimed ten times, and a few minutes later he was gone. This revelation opened new doors as I embraced the idea of becoming a nurse. A father’s lasting impact. One fateful Sunday night, sitting by his bedside next to a Christmas tree, I held my father’s hand as he departed this world.

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Chicago Caregiving

AUGUST 24, 2022

My great-grandmother, great-grandfather, and cousins that I had never seen before. And it turned out that he and the Kofkin he’d found in New York were related after all: cousins who share a great-grandfather. Kofkin grew up in Chicago, thinking his immediate family was all the family he had. I just had to stay with it,” he says.

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The Bucket-List Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Mrs. Oliver later shared that her grandfather had been a patient at our Compassionate Care Center 10 years ago. When we met to pick up the dress from her, she said, “today would have been my grandfather’s birthday. Renée Oliver), and she very generously offered to donate the dress to Nancy.

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Palliverse

OCTOBER 19, 2022

nau sang original songs that had been composed by our late patient, their husband/brother/father/father-in-law/grandfather. We all crammed into the big patient lounge which has a view of the local park through the windows. His songs were written in a combination of Te Reo M?

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Solace

MARCH 30, 2022

I attempted to follow the guidance and “invited” my deceased grandfather to walk beside me, but he didn’t come. The message I received from her was one of comfort, that even though it felt unfair, my grandfather was ready to go. Instead, I was joined by my grandmother. She passed five years earlier, and we were always close.

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 12, 2024

I knew a hot hospice nurse caring for my grandfather, and I’m like, ‘He’s a hot nurse. How long have you worked in the nursing field? I ’ ve been a nurse for nine years now. I stepped away in early spring 2021. Why did you become a nurse? I want to be a hot nurse.’ Nurse Blake jokes). My dad’s a respiratory therapist.

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Chicago Caregiving

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

That’s the case with McDonnell’s grandfather, 90-year-old Jim McDonnell, who started collecting stamps when he was about 10 years old. A young woman from Ireland gave him two of his prize stamps, featuring her great-grandfather, James Connelly, who helped lead the 1916 Easter Rising.

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Palliverse

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

A good father to our children and the best grandfather for their children. I thought he was going to die last night. I could tell he was warming up. That’s what happened with my Mum. I thought, this is it, he’s about to die. Last night I kissed him for the first time in decades. I really thought he was going to die last night.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Eric: I’m just going to push you on that because I feel like I can dispute those numbers because if you look at the number of active geriatricians, yeah, we kind of peaked at 10,000 because we had a bunch of people who grandfathered in and they didn’t re-certify afterwards. The first one was somebody who grandfathered in.

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Chicago Caregiving

DECEMBER 14, 2022

After she woke up, she was unable to pick herself back up and had to lay on the floor for hours until my grandfather came home,” Johnson says. On a separate occasion, Johnson’s grandfather had suffered immobility, unable to get up from his chair alone. . His grandmother had passed out from a severe fever in the middle of her home.

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Hospice 101

MAY 24, 2020

I knew of our nation’s history of wars, I knew my grandfather was a veteran (although he didn’t talk much about his time in the service during WW2), and I knew there were holidays to celebrate and honor our military. When I first started in hospice nursing eight years ago, I didn’t know much about the military service.

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Palliverse

JANUARY 17, 2024

Son, I’ve found two of your grandfather’s missing moustaches.” . “Hello, Exxon-Valdez, I’ve think I’ve found the remaining oil that you lost.” ” “Hello is that Groucho Marx’s grandson? ” I found my right index finger reaching upwards towards his eyebrows, for a taste test.

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Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

For a grandfather who hosts lots of family get togethers, where traditional food is an essential part of the gathering, implementing a strict diet will be nearly impossible to follow.

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Nurse.com

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Growing up, Breda said her great-grandfather lived with her family. “Very often, they have to be someone who is very competent and confident and can work well independently as well as on a team.”. Rewards and challenges. Today, that type of arrangement is more uncommon. The way society cares for older adults has changed,” she said.

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Journey With Deanna

AUGUST 11, 2015

Grief is a universal theme and central to this film, which is about a young male death doula and his relationship with his grandfather as he dies. We have a wonderful time in dialogue about "Thunder," a dramatic film about coming of age and deals with themes of identity, family, and fear.

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Palliverse

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

He had been an active grandfather previously but he couldn’t do a lot of the things he loved to do with his grandchildren. He wanted to die as he felt he did not want to continue living after almost ten years of worsening pain. A decade of decreased function, of being unable to do the things he liked.

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Palliverse

JUNE 11, 2022

He had been sent by his grandfather to ask questions as he could speak English. I changed my patients medications to keep him comfortable and went to see the other patients on the ward. When I came back to the nursing station the nurses were talking to the young boy. He didn’t know what to ask and I took him back to his father’s room.

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Home Care Pulse

AUGUST 16, 2022

You know, my background actually in home care begins before I was even born with my grandfather. My grandmother who took care of my grandfather for the 19 years and the dining, when she became older, we she needed care and we learned that she was making 900 and $72 a month in social security. Thanks for having me.

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Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

MAY 9, 2024

When I was five, I was convinced I could swim with floaties on my ankles… my poor grandfather had to jump in and save me. In preschool, I was named the “Corner Queen” for wanting to paint, cut, and, heaven forbid, use the potty independently in the adults-only restroom with the door locked.

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The Nurse Break

JUNE 19, 2023

Those mothers and fathers and grandfathers and great grandmothers and younger people too, who all find themselves relying on compassion and care and provision of some sort of day-to-day quality of life within this silo of the health system are often the most vulnerable, disenfranchised and ignored. things are now beyond grim.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

They’re John who’s a father, who’s a grandfather. ” The person does not identify who they are as the person in room 222 with heart failure. That’s what we do as clinicians. That is who the patients see themselves as. And that’s what these narratives are about.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

They’re John who’s a father, who’s a grandfather. ” The person does not identify who they are as the person in room 222 with heart failure. That’s what we do as clinicians. That is who the patients see themselves as. And that’s what these narratives are about.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 19, 2023

I knew a hot hospice nurse caring for my grandfather, and I’m like, he’s a hot nurse. How long have you worked in the nursing field? I’ve been a nurse for nine years now. I stepped away in early spring 2021. Why did you become a nurse? I want to be a hot nurse. Nurse Blake jokes). My dad’s a respiratory therapist.

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Seniority, the Mavencare Blog

MAY 19, 2020

It can also be a pleasant surprise to call your mother or grandfather while you’re on break from work now and then, just to chat for a few minutes and to create a moment of connectivity in both of your days.

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