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How to include seniors in your Halloween plans

Living Assistance Services

Many annual events are connected to family and togetherness—holidays like Christmas, Hanukkah or Thanksgiving, among others—while other.

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A Season of Watching, Waiting, and Preparing for the Light

Donna Cardillo, The Inspiration Nurse

Whether you celebrate Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, or winter solstice, it is a season of watching, waiting and preparing for the light. The symbolism is perfect for our lives as we often find ourselves in personal and spiritual darkness unable to find our way.

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How In-Home Health Care Can Help Around The Holidays

Executive Care

The holiday season can be very hard on people, especially for seniors who can’t be with family or friends for Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanza, or New Year’s. Companionship services help seniors improve and maintain their mental health and emotional wellbeing. Especially if they’re alone because Covid-19 has disrupted their traditional plans.

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Managing Your Grief – Holiday Edition by Jim Reiser

Hospice of the North Coast

Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and Happy New Year – those good old familiar and welcome sayings may not be as welcome to those of us who have suffered the loss of a loved one this year. Everything is different. Every single thing. Colors are duller, food tastes bland, drinks are not quite as refreshing.

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Hopes, Dreams and Reflections at Midwinter

Life & Death Matters

Some of us celebrate the Winter Solstice, others celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah and other faith-based festivals. To the Life and Death Matters Community, Ted and I want to express our gratitude, care, concern and hopes as the holiday season approaches. We are a community with diverse perspectives and beliefs.

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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

GeriPal

My sense, although I don’t know the data and others might, is that most families make these decisions by consensus, that they need, after their loved one dies, they still want to have Thanksgiving in Easter and Hanukkah and all other holidays.