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This is a collection of all of the HEAL Project InfoLetters from the first Community Outreach Program in Education (COPE), public education series intended to educate the public about hospice and caring for dying loved ones.
The series was developed to help guide caregivers and families on their journey as they care for a dying loved one.
Each InfoLetter in the series covers a specific topic relating to death and dying in the context of caregiving.
This valuable collection addresses the following topics:
- Series Overview
- You and the Healthcare System
- Legal Considerations - Advance Directives
- What is Hospice?
- Understanding the Dying Process
- Comfort Management
- Nearing Death Awareness
- Belief Systems - Faith & Spirituality
- Grief of the Dying Person
- Rituals Around Death
- Bereavement Support - Continuing Your Life After Their Death
- Life After Caregiving
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This Time of Caregiving
Words of Encouragement & Hope
By Jim Miller
and Christen Pettit Miller
Jim and Christen have created a handbook full of information and encouragement for people serving as caregivers for loved ones. It's not uncommon for this to be ranked as one of the most challenging episodes in a person's life.
At the same time, the caregiving experience can be quite rewarding - full of closeness and rich with meaning.
About the Authors:
Jim Miller is a writer, photographer, spiritual director, workshop leader, and speaker who creates resources and gives presentations in the areas of loss, transition, caregiving, healing presence, spirituality, and older age. He speaks before many professional groups and at various institutions, often incorporating his own award-winning photography in his talks. He leads workshops and conducts retreats throughout North America.
Christen Pettit Miller is an ordained minister and board-certified chaplain serving a hospice in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
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The Art of Listening
in a Healing Way
By Jim Miller
In this book, Jim reveals the art of being a healing listener as both a promise and a reward.
Choosing to listen - to really listen - is one of the most caring, affirming gifts you can offer another.
About the Author:
Jim Miller is a writer, photographer, spiritual director, workshop leader, and speaker who creates resources and gives presentations in the areas of loss, transition, caregiving, healing presence, spirituality, and older age. He speaks before many professional groups and at various institutions, often incorporating his own award-winning photography in his talks. He leads workshops and conducts retreats throughout North America.
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When You're the Caregiver
12 Things to Do If Someone You Care For Is Ill or Incapacitated
By Jim Miller
This is actually two books in one! The flip side is When You're Ill Or Incapacitated - 12 Things to Remember in Times of Sickness, Injury, or Disability.
Drawing upon his own experience as the caregiver for a seriously ill family member, as well as the experiences of many others, the author offers a series of twelve practical, affirming ideas to help people deliver the best possible assistance to those they care for.
About the Author:
Jim Miller is a writer, photographer, spiritual director, workshop leader, and speaker who creates resources and gives presentations in the areas of loss, transition, caregiving, healing presence, spirituality, and older age. He speaks before many professional groups and at various institutions, often incorporating his own award-winning photography in his talks. He leads workshops and conducts retreats throughout North America.
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One You Love is Dying
12 Thoughts to Guide You
On the Journey
By Jim Miller
Jim Miller has pulled together 12 ideas to help you make the most of this time of caring for another person while you also find ways to care for yourself. These suggestions come from his own experiences and those of many others.
This book is the companion to his When You Know You're Dying - 12 Thoughts to Guide You Through the Days Ahead.
About the Author:
Jim Miller is a writer, photographer, spiritual director, workshop leader, and speaker who creates resources and gives presentations in the areas of loss, transition, caregiving, healing presence, spirituality, and older age. He speaks before many professional groups and at various institutions, often incorporating his own award-winning photography in his talks. He leads workshops and conducts retreats throughout North America.
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When You Know You're Dying
12 Thoughts to Guide You
Through the Days Ahead
By Jim Miller
Jim Miller has created twelve basic, helpful guidelines to assist those who know their time on Earth is limited. This honest, affirming book leads the one who's dying to understand the importance of meeting the needs of their whole person - body, mind, heart, and soul.
This book is the companion to his One You Love is Dying - 12 Thoughts to Guide You on the Journey.
About the Author:
Jim Miller is a writer, photographer, spiritual director, workshop leader, and speaker who creates resources and gives presentations in the areas of loss, transition, caregiving, healing presence, spirituality, and older age. He speaks before many professional groups and at various institutions, often incorporating his own award-winning photography in his talks. He leads workshops and conducts retreats throughout North America.
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The Caregiver's Book
Caring for Another,
Caring for Yourself
By Jim Miller
Jim Miller, a grief counselor and spiritual director, has written a compassionate exploration of the modern caregiver's role, with emphasis on their feelings, thoughts, and personal experiences.
Practical suggestions accompany each of the eight basic themes, along with words of inspiration from the ages.
Full-color photography from nature adds to the uplifting message.
About the Author:
Jim Miller is a writer, photographer, spiritual director, workshop leader, and speaker who creates resources and gives presentations in the areas of loss, transition, caregiving, healing presence, spirituality, and older age. He speaks before many professional groups and at various institutions, often incorporating his own award-winning photography in his talks. He leads workshops and conducts retreats throughout North America.
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The Art of Being
a Healing Presence
A Guide for Those
in Caring Relationships
By Jim Miller
with Susan Cutshall
Jim Miller, a grief counselor and spiritual director, and Susan Cutshall, a hospice chaplain and spiritual director, joined forces to write a book about how to be with others in a way that's compassionate, nurturing, healing, and potentially even transforming.
The foundational ideas are laid out in 15 short chapters. Whole pages of engaging quotations and artistic drawings are interwoven with insightful observations and practical suggestions. Ideal for both professional and lay caregivers.
About the Authors:
Jim Miller is a writer, photographer, spiritual director, workshop leader, and speaker who creates resources and gives presentations in the areas of loss, transition, caregiving, healing presence, spirituality, and older age. He speaks before many professional groups and at various institutions, often incorporating his own award-winning photography in his talks. He leads workshops and conducts retreats throughout North America.
Susan Cutshall is a hospice chaplain and spiritual director with over twenty years experience in the areas of death and dying, health care, and feminine spirituality and ritual.
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Drawing from their experience as hospice volunteers, Sandi Kimmel and Patrick Murphy created HEART WIDE OPEN - Self-Care for Caregivers™, an easy-to-use handbook of techniques intended for everyone who has ever cared for anyone else.
Unique, visually beautiful and practical, this handy 48-page pocket book, contains helpful suggestions for a variety of lifestyles dealing with depression and stress while guiding you back into balance with gentleness, humor and love.
After all, if we don't take care of ourselves, how can we take care of others?
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Touch Awareness in Caregiving -- the information and touch skills in this handbook are essential to the care professions. Whether you are a physician, a nurse, a hospice volunteer or a family care giver, you are touching those in your care. Care giving on all levels is about making contact. Care giving is about touching. This manual is designed to give you the opportunity to touch more skillfully, thus enhancing the care that you provide and enriching your role as a care provider.
This handbook includes: photos; an introduction to touching with centering exercise; the Potential Outcomes for the Use of Touch in Palliative Care and the 5 layers of skill for Creating a Safe Container for the Touch Relationship with a Dying Person. Click to see Everflowing Training Schedule.
Author: Irene Smith, Everflowing
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This new manual is a collaboration of Ruven Washor Liebhaber, RA and Jay Koeper, MS. It provides a solid foundation for planning the programs and environments for inpatient hospice units contained within healthcare facilities, such as hospitals and long-term-care facilities. This practical and insightful resource, with highly useful planning instruments, is designed to inform and empower leaders to take charge of a worthy and complex endeavor.
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Developing Hospice Residences empowers hospice programs to take charge of the hospice residence planning and development process.The manual is intended to give hospice organizations sufficient information to be educated consumers throughout the project lifecycle. The organization needs to be equipped with the right questions, knowledge about the relationship between the parts and the whole, and some tools that will aid your decision-making.
Developing Hospice Residences is a collaborative effort between Ruven Washor Liebhaber, R.A., Project Development Manager; and Andrew M. Bader, M.S., Planner. The manual is designed to help hospice programs develop high quality residences that reflect their mission, values, service objectives and budget.
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Emotional Impact of Working With the Dying is a handbook, created by Everflowing founder Irene Smith, which explores the professional challenge of burnout in relationship to the grief, loss and intimacy involved in working with the dying.
The handbook addresses the various coping strategies available to caregivers such as private reflection, group support, journaling, and creating ceremonies.
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| Creating Home Funerals, A Complete Guidebook, consists of three booklets in binder form convenient for adding or changing documents. These instructional booklets may also be ordered individually. Purchasing of this rarely found information includes the following topics:
- Legalities, paperwork and transportation of the deceased
- How to prepare all arrangements for a home or family-directed funeral
- How to prepare a loved one to lie-in-honor
- How to move toward personalized and meaningful closure
- How to save thousands of dollars, stay in charge and have more choices
Booklet A
Preplanning Instructions for a Home or Family-Directed Funeral:
A preplanning workbook that instructs others as to your preferences, wishes and desires:
- Home or family-directed funeral instructions and forms
- Special instructions regarding home ceremonies
- Estate planning: important people, papers & household inventory
- A guide to writing an ethical will
Booklet B
Practical Instructions for a home funeral:
Detailed instructions and examples to make this very personal process an empowering and fulfilling experience:
- Check-off list of home funeral arrangement details
- Preparation of deceased for lying in honor, visitation and ceremony
- Preservation with ice and lifting and carrying a body
Booklet C
Legal rights, resources and instructions for filing end-of-life documentation in California
Avoid commonly made errors with these detailed instructions:
- Relevant statutes and codes for home funerals
- Sample worksheet copies of the Certificate of Death and Permit for Disposition
- Step-by-step guide for filling out and filing Certificate of Death and Permit for Disposition
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Begin Here: Helping Survivors Manage
By Kat Reed
When someone dies, the people left behind can be overwhelmed. "I don't know where to begin" is their most common response. This informative, practical, and organized guide answers that question and more.
Many survivors have a support system, a collection of family, friends and neighbors as well as others who want to help. Their most common response is "What can I do?" This book will help you delegate tasks and work with those you want to support you. If you happen to not have a support system nearby, there are public and private resources readily available to assist you during this time. This book will give you ideas and resources to find the support you need.
About the Author:
Kat Reed has over 25 years experience in the financial/business world. Her background in bookkeeping and office management gives her the unique ability to address both the details and the big picture. She has been a hospice volunteer and has an affinity for the elderly. She became interested in the issues survivors face when both her parents died in a thirteen month span.
This book arose from Kat's own work helping her father manage her mother's affairs when her mom died. Kat and her dad wondered how people manage all these tasks when they don't have a family or support system. This book is part of Kat's efforts to help anyone who has survived a loss.
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Dying to Know - Straight Talk About Death & Dying - this book was written directly to the person who is facing the end of his/her life. Using frank talk about the physical changes, family dynamics, decision-making, communication, closure and the mystery of dying, it serves to provide comfort and understanding for the patient and family alike.
Author: Tani Bahti, RN, CT, CHPN (Registered Nurse, Certified in Thanatology, Certified in Hospice & Palliative Nursing) - Pathways Education and Consultation in End of Life Care
"This book was a godsend - I don't know how we would have gotten thru this otherwise. I made sure each of my {adult} children read it."
"This exceptional book has been invaluable, both personally and professionally, providing much needed information I wasn't taught in medical school and residency. It is a great source of information in providing compassionate and knowledgeable end-of-life care. I plan to make it available to all my patients facing the end of life."
Ed Beggy, MD, FAAFP
Clinical Associate Professor in Family & Community Medicine,
University of Arizona School of Medicine
Additional discounts are available for purchases of 50 books or more. Please contact us toll-free at (866) 489-4325 if your are interesed in making a bulk purchase.
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Dying to Know - Straight Talk About Death & Dying - this book with accompanying CD was written directly to the person who is facing the end of his/her life. Using frank talk about the physical changes, family dynamics, decision-making, communication, closure and the mystery of dying, it serves to provide comfort and understanding for the patient and family alike.
When fatigue, concentration, visual or literacy issues arise, the accompanying audio CD is a comforting and easy-to-use learning tool.
Author: Tani Bahti, RN, CT, CHPN (Registered Nurse, Certified in Thanatology, Certified in Hospice & Palliative Nursing) - Pathways Education and Consultation in End of Life Care
"This book was a godsend - I don't know how we would have gotten thru this otherwise. I made sure each of my {adult} children read it."
"This exceptional book has been invaluable, both personally and professionally, providing much needed information I wasn't taught in medical school and residency. It is a great source of information in providing compassionate and knowledgeable end-of-life care. I plan to make it available to all my patients facing the end of life."
Ed Beggy, MD, FAAFP
Clinical Associate Professor in Family & Community Medicine,
University of Arizona School of Medicine
Additional discounts are available for purchases of 50 books or more. Please contact us toll-free at (866) 489-4325 if your are interesed in making a bulk purchase.
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Evacuation Plan: a novel from the hospice
By Joe M. O'Connell
Matt, a fledgling screenwriter, volunteers to work with the terminally ill in exchange for a good plot for his next script. He meets the people who work, die, and mourn in this world of last moments.
In the novel-in-stories style of Tim O'Brien's July July and Charles Baxter's The Feast of Love, O'Connell's characters in Evacuation Plan reveal themselves in poignantly unfolding stories: the gambler who played a risky game involving his wife and his ex-con father; the mortician who was an unwed father-to-be; the daughter whose dying father has no clue about the night her world spun out of control; the nurse who lived among aging neighbors and struggled to hold her own family in place; the drunk who magically encountered himself as a boy. Forgiveness, joy, making the final leap.
Evacuation Plan is the story of a world in which the clock ticks off the final moments for all of us and makes of those moments a lifetime.
About the Author:
Joe M. O'Connell writes columns about the Texas film industry for The Austin Chronicle and Dallas Morning News. His novel Evacuation Plan about life in a residential hospice was released in 2007. In his spare time, he also teaches writing to graduate students at St. Edward's University and to undergrads at Austin Community College. The biggest news in his life was the recent birth of his son Nicholas Drake. For more information go to the Joe M. O'Connell Blogspot.
"Here's a book so rich with stories of the living, so filled with people's bountiful problems, as well as incidents of wry forgiveness, one realizes over and over the circling forces of life's completeness. It's not a sad tale nor a needless feel-good account but a balanced, sometimes comic, affirmation of what is here and what we all know is waiting. Evacuation Plan is a book to ponder and to enjoy."
-- Carolyn Osborn, award-winning short story writer
"This is a fictional account of life's last journey. A screenwriter named Matt decides to volunteer at a hospice for inspiration and help with his writing. The hospice is a last haven for the living and it's chalk full of stories for those who listen. Matt takes the people he meets and changes them into colorful characters with lives of his choosing. We go back and forth between Matt's time in the hospice and his imaginary tales. The book is compassionate and like life, often absurd, sometimes funny, sad, or bittersweet, but never boring. We're human and we've all screwed up more times than any of us can count. It's about forgiveness of oneself and others and a new way of looking at death. We're all on the fast track to death and each moment is precious. Mr. O'Connell's wise words will help us remember that. Life is too short to forget."
-- Victoria Kennedy, Midwest Book Review
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Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes
By Frances Shani Parker
All of us are entitled to the rewards of a peaceful, pain-free death. This book honors that with true stories about hospice patients and inspiring insights from the author. Becoming Dead Right guides us through the general and "how to" information maze that prepares us for dealing with death.
Improving and expanding hospice services will require systemic changes in healthcare institutions, outreach to diverse populations, and funding. With the inclusion of hospice programs in nursing homes, dying with dignity becomes even more important. Millions of aging baby boomers heighten the urgency for better hospice care and conditions in nursing homes.
About the Author:
Frances Shani Parker is a writer, consultant, and hospice volunteer. Her writing has won awards from Writer's Digest, the Poetry Society of Michigan, the Detroit Writer's Guild, Broadside Press, and the New Orleans Public Library. Among publications including her work are Black Arts Quarterly (Stanford University), Warpland: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas (Chicago State University), and Voices of the Civil Rights Movement (AARP). Among venues at which her poems have been read are the International AIDS Conference in South Africa and Artists Among Us, sponsored by the Michigan Wayne County Council for Arts, History, and Humanities.
A former school principal, Parker has had essays and poems published in the educational arena, particularly on service learning, a teaching and learning method that connects classroom learning with meeting community needs. She has been honored with the Service-Learning Trailblazer Award presented by the National Service-Learning Partnership. Other honors include the Outstanding Educational Administrator by the Metropolitan Detroit Alliance of Black School Educators and Educator of the Year by the Wayne State University Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, an international, professional fraternity for educators.
"Becoming Dead Right gives us a blueprint for how we should approach dying and death. The author, through her impelling personal experiences as a hospice volunteer and her descriptive details of how each individual claims death, enfolds the reader into the many short stories that make us understand what hospice is all about."
-- Karyne Jones, President, National Caucus and Center on Black Aged
"Before I read this book, I knew very little about hospice care. Reading this book was extremely enlightening. While maintaining universal appeal, perspectives of people of color are emphasized."
-- Naomi Long Madgett, PhD, Poet Laureate of the City of Detroit
"This book is filled with poetry, stories, wisdom and common sense that can help boomers, students, caregivers and policy makers understand their own aging and realize that our society can make important changes that can ensure safe, dignified, individualized care at the end of our lives."
-- Alice H. Hedt, National Citizens' Coalition for Nursing Home Reform
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Providing Massage in Hospice Care: An Everflowing Resource -- This manual represents 21 years of experience in developing protocols, skills and coping stratagies for facilitating body work with dying persons. Irene has assembled the information in this manual in hopes that interest in this field will be nurtured and supported in the healthiest way possible.
Manual includes: An Introduction to the Business of Dying; Potential Outcomes for the Use of Touch in Palliative Care; Precautions and Guidelines; Quality Assurance; The 5 Layers of Skill for Creating a Safe Container for the Touch Relationship; Everflowing Touch Techniques and Body Mechanics; Side Positioning of the Client; Working in a Client’s Home; and The Emotional Impact of Working With the Dying; and Resources Guide.
Author: Irene Smith, Everflowing
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Messages and Miracles
Extraordinary Experiences of the Bereaved
By Louis LaGrand
In this moving and compassionate work, a pioneer in after-death communication (ADC) research explores the reasons why ADCs occur and how they help the bereaved. LaGrand provides the answers to 100 of the most commonly asked questions, including how to tell if a contact experience is real, and how it can help you establish a new relationship with the deceased.
This book is filled with joy and hope. It points to the future. As such it becomes a vital tool for anyone who is either grieving or who offers help to those who grieve. The compelling personal stories of the way real lives have been changed as a result of After Death Communication (ADC) will fascinate and thrill you.
You'll learn the difference between ADCs and guided imagery or hallucinations. You'll discover the different types of ADCs, from seeing an apparition to sounds or smells or symbols. Explained are how ADCs change the lives of mourners and the types of messages from the deceased people receive through dreams. You'll also learn how the ADC experience has helped so many get past their grief and how it sometimes changes a person's world view and creates positive spiritual changes. Messages and Miracles should be required reading for everyone.
About the Author:
Dr. Louis LaGrand is Distinguished
Service Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York and Adjunct Professor
of Health Careers at the Eastern Campus of Suffolk Community College in Riverhead,
New York. He is a certified grief counselor, the author of eight books, and gives
workshops on grief support and stress reduction in schools, hospices and health
agencies. Dr. LaGrand was a member of the Board of Directors and Chairperson of
the Nominations Committee of the Association for Death Education & Counseling and
started the first course on bereavement and death at Potsdam College. He was a member
of the Debriefing team for the TWA Flight 800 disaster and was one of the founders
of Hospice of St. Lawrence Valley, Inc.
"This is a wonderful companion to After Death Communication: Final Farewells -- one that will be critical for persons who have had such experiences, as well as the counselors who assist them in making sense of such experiences. A must read."
-- Ken Doka, PhD, Past President, Association for Death Education and Counseling
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Love Lives On: Learning from the Extraordinary Encounters of the Bereaved
By Louis LaGrand
Learn from the wisdom of those who have had extraordinary experiences to cope with your great loss.
You can cope with your great loss by learning from the experiences of others who have managed similar losses. Millions of people who are grieving the death of a loved one often encounter a phenomena which helps them deal with change and reinvest in life. However, it's commonly dismissed by family, friends, and some counselors as an artifact of grief or a product of the disorganization and anxiety of the grief process. Yet they contain much insight and wisdom for all.
This is a book offering comfort, reassurance, and hope in the face of sorrow for anyone mourning the death of a loved one as well as those who provide support to the bereaved, whether family, volunteers, or professionals. You will learn how to use seven wisdom lessons gleaned from extraordinary encounters and integrate them with the following nine proven survival skills that have been used by millions to cope with the death of their loved ones.
- Communicate and relate.
- Discover and grieve your secondary losses.
- Express emotion.
- Do something.
- Start new routines and traditions.
- Go outside of yourself: Strive to be more loving.
- Trust mystery and the unseen.
- Replenish without feeling guilty.
- Learn to shift your inner focus.
About the Author:
Dr. Louis LaGrand is Distinguished
Service Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York and Adjunct Professor
of Health Careers at the Eastern Campus of Suffolk Community College in Riverhead,
New York. He is a certified grief counselor, the author of eight books, and gives
workshops on grief support and stress reduction in schools, hospices and health
agencies. Dr. LaGrand was a member of the Board of Directors and Chairperson of
the Nominations Committee of the Association for Death Education & Counseling and
started the first course on bereavement and death at Potsdam College. He was a member
of the Debriefing team for the TWA Flight 800 disaster and was one of the founders
of Hospice of St. Lawrence Valley, Inc.
"This inspiring book demonstrates that 'mysterious' encounters with the deceased are in fact critically important parts of the healing process."
-- Bruce Greyson, MD, Carlson Professor of Psychiatry, University of Virginia Health System
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Elder Rage - How To Survive Caring for Aging Parents
By Jacqueline Marcell
Are You At Your Wit's End With Elder Care
And coping with an elderly loved one who:
- Makes unreasonable demands, wanting all of your time?
- Is experiencing memory loss or dementia / Alzheimer’s?
- Is obsessed with ill health, but refuses to see the doctor?
- Has become depressed, manipulative, distrustful or hostile?
- Refuses any mention of caregiving or elder care help?
Then you'll love this riveting true story, written with compassion, heart and humor—and realize that you're not alone with your countless frustrations and conflicting emotions. This incredible roller coaster ride is a can't-put-it-down page-turner, as well as a how-to guide for struggling caregivers. Triumph with this devoted daughter as she mends her frail mother and finally turns her rebellious "Jekyll & Hyde" father around, with the right doctors and medications, adult day care, and creative behavior modification—at 85 years old!
About the Author:
Jacqueline Marcell is a former television executive whose caregiving experience resulted in her first (best-selling) book “Elder Rage”, a Book-of-the-Month Club selection being considered for a feature film. Over 50 endorsements include: Hugh Downs, Regis Philbin, John Hopkins Memory Clinic, Duke University Center for Aging, and the National Adult Day Services Association who bestowed on her their Media Award. Jacqueline also hosts, Coping With Caregiving, a radio program that is heard free worldwide. She is also an International speaker on Alzheimer’s delivering over 150 keynotes, including to the Florida House of Representatives. Jacqueline is also a recent breast cancer survivor who advocates that everyone, especially caregivers, closely monitor their own health. For more information go to the Elder Rage website.
"I thought I knew Jacqueline until I read her book. Wow, what a story! If you're caring for an elder, you won't believe how much this book will help you."
-- Regis Philbin
"Jacqueline's story and style of writing will surely grab a large readership. Studded with flashes of humor, it demonstrates the enormous resourcefulness and resilience of the human spirit."
-- Hugh Downs
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Hold My Hand: A Mother's Journey
By Glenys Carl
Glenys Carl's life changed for ever with one phone call saying that her son Scott, who
was halfway round the world in Australia , had suffered a traumatic head injury
and was not expected to live. It was the start of a remarkable journey for Glenys
- and for Scott, who survived with his personality intact but could only move one
arm.
In this inspirational book Glenys describes her fight to rehabilitate Scott
after the doctors advised that no more could be done to help his mobility and he
should be put in a home. Glenys was determined she would look after Scott herself
and teach him to walk again. Alone in Sydney , she put leaflets out asking for help.
Complete strangers turned up at her door, a flood of volunteers, all giving their
time to Scott, inspired by his unquenchable spirit.
When they moved to London the
same thing happened as volunteers helped with Scott's therapy until he was able
to take his first difficult steps.
Along the way Glenys learned to trust her instincts
as a mother, to treasure each moment with her son and to accept her situation without
bitterness, even when tragedy struck again. Scott's courage and his mother's determination
to give him the best possible life imbue with book with a powerful message of hope.
About the Author:
Glenys Carl lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico and has been a hospice nurse caring for AIDS and cancer patients for thirteen years in Santa Fe with a break from 1997-1998 when she worked with Afghani orphans who had lived under the Taliban regime. For more information go to the Glenys Carl website.
"Santa Fean Glenys Carl is a joyful grandmother and loving hospice. In 2003 she won the Spirit of the Community prize. If you read her book Hold My Hand: A Mother's Journey (Sidgwick & Jackson, 2005), you will understand the origins of her spiritual depth. With unsparing candor, she describes accompanying her son Scott to his death even as she crossed continents to try to save him."
-- Soledad Santiago, Santa Fe, New Mexican
"I was deeply touched by what I read and couldn't agree more that this is a classic book on volunteering and quite an extraordinary one too. "Hold My Hand" is beautifully written and "unputdownable" - a real page-turner. I nearly missed several train stations as I read it on the way to work! I would recommend it to anyone involved in volunteering, or more specifically in the hospice and palliative care."
-- Volunteering England
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| The Last Adventure of Life
Sacred Resources for Living and Dying from a Hospice Counselor
By Maria Dancing Heart
Anyone who is grieving, preparing to die, caring for ill loved ones, or interested in exploring new ways to view spirituality and death will value this essential tool for healing and prayer. As an introduction to hospice, the book maintains that hospice care is an experience that is grounded in spirituality - the force that binds everything together.
This interconnectedness of all things is demonstrated in inspirational stories, poetry, scripture, prayers, and guided meditations that will assist those wishing to go spiritually deeper. Further supported by chapters on grief, relaxation tools, and a wealth of additional reference materials, the book becomes a treasury of hope and healing that reframes the experience of death as one of transformation - a new adventure in life.
About the Author:
Maria Dancing Heart was born in Tokyo, Japan, the daughter of Lutheran missionaries. She spent her childhood growing up in Japan, attending Japanese public schools through the eighth grade. As a result, she is bilingual and bicultural, and has used her language and cultural skills in a variety of ways through the years. After finishing high school at Canadian Academy in Kobe, Japan, she moved to the United States for college. She graduated from Yale College, and later attended seminary and received her Masters of Divinity from Chicago Theological Seminary in 1984.
"This is skillful advice from a revered hospice worker who speaks from the deep experience of a true heart."
-- Stephen & Ondrea Levine, authors of "Who Dies?"
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The Final Crossing - Learning to Die in Order to Live
By Scott Eberle, MD
This new book from Lost Borders Press is the story of two worlds meeting, told on both a personal and an historical scale. The personal account recalls "the final crossing" of Steven Foster - one of the pioneers of modern-day wilderness rites of passage - from the perspective of the hospice physician who helped ferry him across. Interspersed with Steven and Scott's story is a more sweeping historical view of how the rites of passage movement and the hospice movement have converged.
About the Author:
Scott Eberle, MD, is a physician specializing in end-of-life care, and is the medical director for Hospice of Petaluma, in northern California.
"Extraordinary insights shared by two remarkable people, one dying, the other the inner life and decisions of the physician and friend attending this fine fellow preparing to head into death. This is the best work of its sort that I have come across."
-- Stephen Levine
Author, Who Dies?, A Year To Live
"This is an extraordinarily wise and compassionate book written by a physician of the body and the heart. In this beautifully written account of the death of his beloved teacher and friend we can discover the great mystery of meeting death as a teacher and friend. This book is for all of us. Its depths plumb ours, its wisdom opens ours, and the compassion of its author reminds us that this quality resides in all of us."
-- Joan Halifax Roshi
Abbot, Upaya Zen Center
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This incredible video provides the viewer with a bee's-eye view of the world of flowers. It contains one hour of mesmerizing photographs of the most beautiful flowers, complimented by healing music. (Length of DVD, 60 minutes)
Bellfy/Sloan Productions, the producers, were insistent that it be released to the hospice community first. This DVD is currently not available anywhere else.
This unique video is intended for use in hospices, hospitals and nursing homes.
Patients and dying loved ones who are bed-bound will find that this video quickly takes them into the beauty of nature and a place of peace.
This meditative display of nature is truly a Vision of Heaven on Earth.
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Facing the Fears - Straight Talk to Families About the Dying Process - this DVD, intended for healthcare professionals, both instructs and demonstrates how to talk with your patients and families, to minimize fear through education about the natural process of dying. Physical changes and psychosocial challenges are discussed along with the mysteries such as the timing of death and visions.
(Length of DVD, approx. 70 minutes)
Here are the topics covered:
Introduction
Physical Changes
- Changes in Activity
- Changes in Activity
- The Use of Touch
- Changes in Nutrition and Hydration
- Changes in Bowel and Bladder
- Changes in Breathing
- Changes in Mentation
- Changes in Circulation
- Energy Surges
Psychosocial Issues
The Mystery
- The Timing of Death
- Visions and Final Messages
"The professional DVD is excellent and is now a part of our regular hospice orientation - thank you!"
R.H. - hospice educator
Producer: Tani Bahti, RN, CT, CHPN (Registered Nurse, Certified in Thanatology, Certified in Hospice & Palliative Nursing) - Pathways Education and Consultation in End of Life Care
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Facing Your Fears - Straight Talk About the Dying Process - this DVD speaks directly to the lay caregiver about the natural changes that may accompany dying. As such, it's a useful tool for your staff to use to aid in their teaching. It gently describes the physical changes, how best to respond to each one to promote comfort, how to enhance support and communication, and to glimpse into the awesome mystery of dying. This video will minimize fear and provide a sense of empowerment and peace.
(Length of DVD, approx. 48 minutes)
Here are the topics covered:
Physical Changes
- Changes in Activity
- Changes in Eating and Drinking
- Changes in Breathing
- Managing Pain
- Changes in Circulation
- Energy Surges
- Communication and Letting Go
The Mystery
- The Timing of Death
- Visions and Final Messages
"The DVD is a great tool to help with our hospice families. Your calming presence makes it easy for families to understand this material"
S.D. - hospice educator
Producer: Tani Bahti, RN, CT, CHPN (Registered Nurse, Certified in Thanatology, Certified in Hospice & Palliative Nursing) - Pathways Education and Consultation in End of Life Care
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The Gifts of Grief - is a unique film about the possibility of another side of suffering, told through the personal and inspiring stories with people who have confronted remarkable losses and have found a way to transform their grief into a greater appreciation of life. As we watch these people grapple with difficult emotional and spiritual pain with a mixture of grace, dignity, fear, vulnerability, soulfulness and courage, we are asked to open to our own pain honestly and directly and discover what lessons death and grief have taught us. We explore the possibility that grief while very painful, is one of the closely guarded keys to true transformation and joy.
The Gifts of Grief asks a timely important question - How do we transform the tragedy of our losses into a life altering experience that deepens and enriches our lives? This film invites the viewer to discover for themselves the possibility of true gifts emerging from their own losses.
Through compelling personal stories, we gain valuable insights from people facing, growing and transforming through grief. What can we learn from our losses? What inner and outer resources do we have to help us cope with our grief? How do we go on? What are the "gifts of grief?"
These are the core questions that are explored by ordinary and extraordinary people, including writer, Isabel Allende; Reverend Cecil Williams; writer, Alana Laraine; Zen Monk / Vietnam Veteran, Claude AnShin Thomas; youth motivator, Vinny Ferrero; filmmaker, Lee Mun Wah who celebrate and inspire healing and transformation. The film invites us to open to pain, learn from loss, and teaches us about the preciousness of life.
(Length of DVD, approx. 52 minutes)
"A beautiful film and a great gift to us all. Finally a film that points to the positive dimensions of grief. It shows us that grief is our common ground, that the healing is always found by moving toward the suffering and that the journey through grief is a path to wholeness."
-- Frank Ostaseski - Founder, Metta Institute
"In a word, you have created something truly authentic, fresh and precious. The Gifts of Grief offers a wise, beautifully crafted, exploration of grief's rocky road, a challenge that sooner or later will confront us all. While each of us must find our own path, the wonderfully articulate fellow travelers we meet in this sensitive film bring us hope, the wisdom of Rumi distilled through their own experiences of loss. A timeless gem! What a gift!
Nancee, this is documentary film making at its best - a desperately important topic, wonderfully insightful and open subjects, and a message of hope. Timeless wisdom indeed."
-- Balfour Mount, MD, Founding Director of the Royal Victoria Hospital Palliative Care Service
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Lessons for the Living reveals a unique subculture of Hospice volunteers as they reflect on their experiences and philosophies of death. Among them, a teenager escapes from the drama of high school, a woman learns to communicate through silence, and a terminally ill woman faces her own death with unexpected humor and grace.
As the baby boomer generation nears its end, this film offers us all a timely look at what it means to face death - whether it be our own or someone else's. Lessons for the Living shows that the dying have a great deal to offer the living.
(Length of DVD, 50 minutes)
"Lessons for the Living is visually and aurally lush...dying has much to teach us about living."
-- Leslie Bryan, Hospice Volunteer, NYC
"It delivered an intimate and authentic portrayal that was packaged in a manner unlike any documentary I've seen before. I was on my toes the entire time. I really loved this movie."
-- Jeffrey Johnson, Hospice Volunteer, NYC
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SOLACE: Wisdom of the Dying grew from Camille Adair's intimate experiences with people facing the end of their lives. As a hospice nurse, Camille has worked closely with patients, families, hospitals, cancer treatment centers and many healthcare professionals to address the needs of dying people as well as the needs of the healthcare community in being able to integrate the end of ones life as a natural and sacred human process rather than as a medical failure.
SOLACE offers a rich blend of perspectives from experts, such as authors Stephen and Ondrea Levine, Roshi Joan Halifax, Larry and Barbara Dossey, to the practical and authentic wisdom born from everyday people facing their mortality.
(Length of DVD, approx. 84 minutes)
"Finally a documentary that addresses the actual experience of death and dying! It’s about time that we began having this conversation. Solace brings us so gently into the lives of people willing to share their thoughts and feelings--not only about death, but about their own passing--leaving us profoundly grateful for their wisdom, vulnerability and inspiration. Beautifully crafted, lyrical and uplifting, this film is a must for anyone who wants to begin the most important conversation of their lives."
-- Anna Darrah, Acquisitions Director, Spiritual Cinema Circle
"Solace brought me to my knees; in gratitude. I relive many scenes from Solace and I recall the evening with hope, joy and tenderness. Bravo!!!"
-- Annie, Lamy, NM
"Although Solace The Movie takes on the very shadowed subject of death and dying, I found it to be profoundly uplifting and truly a message of how to live more fully. It is a ground-breaking film that dances eloquently with the language of how both life and death are natural processes to be celebrated and not feared. An inspiring work!"
-- Melissa, Santa Fe, NM
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So You Want To Be A Hospice Volunteer is a great tool for volunteer coordinators/managers. The video will assist in recruiting volunteers by inspiring and informing. Interviews with veteran volunteers are woven together, answering and alleviating the concerns of the newcomer.
(Length of DVD, approx. 15 minutes)
The video addresses such questions as:
- What do hospice volunteers do?
- What qualities will I need?
- How much time will it take?
- What will I actually be doing?
- Is it depressing?
- Is it fulfilling?
"It's so refreshing to have a contemporary, well-produced video in our field. AND it works!"
-- Anna Nereim - Volunteer Coordinator, Kaiser Permanente
"A great introduction for the inquiring volunteer. A great tool for the volunteer supervisor."
-- Christine Lobo - Volunteer Director, Roze Room Hospice
"This video really captures the magic of the volunteer."
-- Leslie Kussmann - President, Aquarius Health Care Videos
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Care for the Journey: Sustaining the Heart of Healthcare, is a new educational initiative strategically designed to respond to the demands and stresses on the healthcare professional of the 21st Century.
The Care for the Journey Audio Resource is a CD of spoken messages from leaders in compassionate care supported by original scored music as a teaching tool to enrich the experience. Developed by the creators of Graceful Passages: A Companion for Living and Dying, a leading palliative care resource, the audio resource helps to strengthen skills and capacity for emotional presence, relational medicine, and healing dialogue. The role and impact of grief and loss, communication skills, and self-care practices are explored.
This CD is designed to rekindle the spiritual and emotional dimension of the professional healthcare provider. The listener is able to explore the acceptance of human limitations in medicine as a gateway to deepen and sustain the human connection in healing. It includes the wisdom of Christiane Northrup, MD, Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, Joan Borysenko, PhD, Angeles Arrien, PhD, Ira Byock, MD, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and other leading experts in medicine, spirituality and psychology, facilitating experiential learning. These inspiring perspectives invite practitioners to explore their inner resources and develop greater capacity to sustain their role as a healer.
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Beloved: a love song to the heart of exquisite depth and lyrical sensitivity, featuring angelic vocals of unparalleled beauty and the transcendent sound of crystal singing bowls; tender, gentle, uplifting, divinely inspired healing music.
Tender, joyful, gentle, and breathtakingly beautiful, the music of "Beloved" is a healing balm for the soul that will lift your spirit and carry you on waves of love into the arms of the Divine.
Co-written, produced and arranged by renowned world music artist, Thomas Barquee, "Beloved" blends sacred song, chant, mantra and crystal singing bowls into a musical prayer for the heart, inviting you to step into grace and be bathed in pure love.
“Ashana and Thomas have outdone themselves once again. They have taken their music to the next level of refinement and sophistication. I did not think it was possible for Ashana's beautiful voice to get any better after first hearing it on her All Is Forgiven CD but there is a noticeable step towards perfection in this release. So beautiful."
-- Greg Schneider, Founder, Hospice Volunteer Association
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Jewels of Silence: Meditations on the chakras for voice and crystal singing bowls
This CD contains transcendent music of exquisite beauty, depth and sensitivity that quiets the mind and gently carries you into a state of deep rest and relaxation, to the very center of stillness within your being. Perfect for healing, meditation, prayer, yoga, bodywork.
“Ashana and Thomas’ music first opens your heart and then gently guides you deep into the realm of spirit through the angelic combination of her celestial voice and resonating crystal bowls. The Jewels of Silence utilizes this exquisite combination to effortlessly guide you on a tranquil journey to the depths of your soul. The beauty of this CD is its simplicity – while the mind is gradually taken deeper and deeper into silence with each successive track, your consciousness is taken to higher realms within.
-- Greg Schneider, Founder, Hospice Volunteer Association
“This is true meditation music - from the heart calling hearts. Jewels of Silence has a beautiful alchemy of stopping me with an invitation to open my heart to Silence - to fall into Forever. I whole heartedly recommend - give yourself a gift that opens the heart.”
-- Tom Hatcher, MAABS
Listen: Still Light on Water
Listen: Soulmerge
Listen: Canticle of Light
Listen: Sanctus
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Awake is a creation of palliative care nurse, Steve Price. It is folk-country genre: hard hitting, one of a kind, sweet yet bold wake-up call about growing old. Real-deal living and dying stories by a front-line nurse/singer/songwriter.
This CD is a musical experiment by a creative nurse who hopes to expose and maybe change
our attitudes about end of life.
Steve Price has been a registered nurse for 25 years. He now works as a palliative care nurse. His experiences have inspired him to write his first CD. So many experiences unfold in hospitals; love, compassion, sadness, frustration, hopelessness and resolve are a few.
These ballads try to capture
some of the sweetness and the sadness. Steve has observed how the collective cultural
fear about end of life has influenced medical practice and questions some of our
healthcare priorities. He witnesses the manifestation of our death defying society
in the heroic lengths we expect, request and sometimes demand of our doctors; asking
them to stand in deaths way. In these songs he calls into question the wisdom of
our choices. In our denial we often see an expensive, cruel drama unfold for so
many at the end of life causing much suffering.
The music is timely and will surely
stimulate discussion since health care is once again on the political agenda. The
baby boomers are at the healthcare doorstep and we are feeling the financial strain
on our fragile system. There are problems with the many uninsured, shameful condition
of nursing homes and the profiteering at the expense of our old and infirmed citizens.
"The perfect genre for such deeply moving pieces. I smiled and cried through most of them, especially "Farewell". Rarely have I heard such honesty and never about such a subject."
-- Suzanne Alvin
"Most definitely a sweet and touching CD sung from the heart of Steve Price. His message gets right to the point about how we respect and care for each other, and how we can learn not to fear death. A "must listen to" for anyone concerned about health care."
-- Gwen McEwen
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Following the Call is a beautiful collection of music for meditation and inspiration performed on wood and clay flutes. The beautiful, original compositions and inspired improvisations played on Native American and World Flutes resonate on a deep and soulful level.
Ann Licater is a life-long silver flute player who discovered the inspirational and healing music of the Native American flute at a powwow. She uses her intuition and classical training to create beautiful, original melodies and breathtaking improvisations on these sacred instruments.
"Ann's flute playing touches the soul and makes it dance--surely one of the best ways to tap our personal wisdom."
Reynold Feldman, Ph.D., Executive Director of Wisdom Factors International
and author or co-author of three books on wisdom
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All Is Forgiven
This CD is a luminous tapestry of soaring angelic vocals, haunting melodies and the healing sounds of crystal singing bowls. This stunningly beautiful alchemy is magical. It quiets the mind, returning you to a place of deep stillness and remembrance of the Divine … a place where you will be inspired and uplifted … a place of comfort and peace.
Ashana’s exquisite renditions of sacred chant and mantra from the world’s traditions have been called “a gift from Heaven” and “a musical retreat for the soul” -- music that gently and lovingly helps you realign with the innermost part of your being.
“All is Forgiven is a healing salve that will be well used by the Contemplative community and those with a grieving heart. The music sounds a knowing of pain and loss and yet it chants of hope, forgiveness and love.”
-- Susan Rush, Coordinator, Contemplative Outreach of New Mexico, Spiritual Care Coordinator, Ambercare Hospice
“Music has the ability to transport us out of the ordinary -- out of struggle, fear and questioning -- to a place of peace, trust and centeredness where grace and healing can unfold. Ashana’s music has that gift.”
-- Denys Cope, RN, BSN, MSS, Author, Dying, A Natural Passage
Listen: Ave Maria
Listen: The Embrace
Listen: Loving Kindness
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Created from messages on the award-winning recordings Graceful Passages and Care for the Journey, the Heart of Healing also includes several new messages of inspiration and consolation, wisdom and grace, together with the evocative music of Emmy Award-winning composer, Gary Malkin. Featured speakers include Marianne Williamson, Desmond Tutu, Thich Nhat Hanh, Rachel Naomi Remen, and other distinguished practitioners of the healing arts.
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WinterFaith is produced by Michael Stillwater and features the solo piano artistry of Gary Malkin, a seven time Emmy award-winning composer/producer. The music quiets the mind, inspires the soul, and releases the imagination.
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Graceful Passages: A Companion for Living & Dying, produced by Michael Stillwater and Gary Malkin, provides anyone in transition with a powerful experiential tool for being more compassionate, aware and appreciative.
This unique CD contains spoken and written contributions by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Ram Dass, Thich Nhat Hanh, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Ira Byock and other spiritual mentors and guides.
Jack Canfield, co-creator of the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" series, says:
"If you are going through challenges, or helping others going through transitions of any kind, I highly recommend Graceful Passages. The music is extraordinary, the spoken wisdom is timeless, and the gift book is exquisite. Let this masterpiece of healing music and inspiring words be an audio sanctuary for your soul and a priceless gift to share with someone you love."
"A perfect blend of words and music that opens hearts and soothes souls. We highly recommend it."
- Kenny and Julia Loggins (Musicians/authors)
"A powerful tool for the grieving; a healing mirror for the heart"
- Stephen & Ondrea Levine (authors, A Year to Live)
"The healing effect of this music and these words on our mind/body is beyond comparison ... Graceful Passages touches us where it matters most."
- Joan Borysenko, Ph.D. (author)
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This ground-breaking multimedia presentation allows you to participate directly in a discussion of this vitally important topic. Internationally acclaimed author and educator Irene Smith uses book, video, audio CDs to share her experience with unprecedented clarity, understanding and compassion. Whether to prepare yourself personally or as a basis for group exploration, this versatile package contributes a depth of wisdom and education that supports anyone working with the seriously ill or the dying.
Includes:
- Book: Providing Massage in Hospice Care
Explores the professional challenge of burnout in relationship to the grief, loss and intimacy involved in working with dying persons. Addresses the coping strategies of private reflection, group support, journaling, and creating ceremonies.
- DVD: Christmas with Chuck (21 min.)
Irene Smith invites the audience to experience her last visit with a dying client. This powerful slide presentation put to video embodies the emotional issues that often arise when working with dying persons.
- CD1--Presentation (28 min.)
In a discussion with workshop participants including bodyworkers, healthcare professionals and people with AIDS, Irene addresses the component of healing in the dying process and the practitioner's relationship to suffering.
- CD2--Group Sharing (60 min.)
After a group viewing of Christmas with Chuck participants share their experience of the video, including deeply personal feelings concerning the deaths of loved ones and clients.
From the depths of her extensive personal experience, Irene Smith has crafted a well organized, articulate, and thoroughly informative practical guide and inspirational resource. Providing Massage in Hospice Care is an invaluable tool and truly a great gift to the Hospice and Massage Communities and to anyone caring for individuals approaching the transition we call death. -- Dawn Nelson, author, From the Heart Through the Hands: The Power of Touch in Caregiving
Christmas with Chuck has timeless lessons for bodyworkers who work with the ill or the dying. In this video Irene Smith speaks to aspects of the practitioner’s experience that are rarely addressed. I can hardly wait to share it with my own students. -- Gayle MacDonald, M.S., L.M.T. Author of Medicine Hands: Massage Therapy for People with Cancer
"Irene taught us practical ways to be present with our patients through touch. Perhaps more importantly, Irene reminded us of the importance of listening to ourselves in the midst of suffering, and how to utilize that listening as a tool to be responsive to those whom we hope to help. I recommend Irene's program enthusiastically." -- Scott Rome, MD, Medical Director, California Pacific Regional Rehabilitation Center, California Pacific Medical Center, Rehabilitation Center; San Francisco, CA
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ABSTRACT: The Hospice Volunteer Training Institute performed a national volunteer training survey of hospice volunteer managers from across the country to assess the educational needs of hospice volunteer programs and identify training trends.
The primary purpose of the survey was to determine what training topics were considered most important in order to maintain an effective volunteer program that provides a high level of service to hospice patients.
The survey presents data that will permit volunteer managers to assess and compare key characteristics of other hospice agency training programs to include: volunteer demographics and retention; volunteer training methodologies, program costs and curriculum preferences; and a discussion of what resources are currently needed to grow and improve hospice volunteer programs.
To view the Table of Contents for this report click here.
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The Reverie Harp
Listen to the AMAZING tone of this Harp
Woods: Solid Mahogany Soundboard, Solid Cherry Frame
Strings: 22 ball-end acoustic guitar strings
Weight: Just under 5 pounds
Dimensions: 21" x 12.5" x 2"
Fully assembled
Manufactured by Musicmakers Kits
The finished harp comes with a tuning chart, a tuning key (wrench), and instructions for replacing strings if necessary.
Harp Kit available at lower cost
This is the perfect instrument for someone who is not musically inclined but wishes to bring music to the bedside. Designed and invented by Musicmakers in Stillwater, MN in collaboration with Australian music thanatologist Peter Roberts, the Reverie Harp is fast becoming a must-have tool for music therapists, hospice volunteers, visitation ministers/chaplains, activity directors, and nursing home care-givers.
Why is this instrument so successful?
- Beautiful shape is inviting - everyone wants to hold this instrument
- Lightweight and comfortable to hold for even the most frail individuals
- Pentatonic tuning means there is simply no wrong way to play this instrument
- Players love feeling the vibrations through the wood
"I'm finding that when I bring the Reverie Harp into a one to one visit it's a great entree. It's another vehicle to open up a person's heart"
~ Ann Bergstrom, Chaplain
"Ultimately I do what I do to help the people I'm working with. This tool helps me to do that"
~ Dr. Annie Heiderscheit, Board Certified Music Therapist
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The Reverie Harp (Kit)
Listen to the AMAZING tone of this Harp
Woods: Solid Mahogany Soundboard, Solid Cherry Frame
Strings: 22 ball-end acoustic guitar strings
Weight: Just under 5 pounds
Dimensions: 21" x 12.5" x 2"
Manufactured by Musicmakers Kits
Assembly required: ~10-15 hours, kit includes 6-8 clamps, wood glue, wire cutter, hammer, electric hand drill, sandpaper, router (optional), finish. [Assembly Instructions]
Please Note - This kit includes the large Tree rosette located in the center of the harp so there is no need to purchase an additional rosette. If you would like a different rosette design please contact us by e-mail after you receive e-mail receipt.
The harp kit also comes with a tuning chart, a tuning key (wrench), and instructions for replacing strings if necessary.
Assembled Harp
This is the perfect instrument for someone who is not musically inclined but wishes to bring music to the bedside. Designed and invented by Musicmakers in Stillwater, MN in collaboration with Australian music thanatologist Peter Roberts, the Reverie Harp is fast becoming a must-have tool for music therapists, hospice volunteers, visitation ministers/chaplains, activity directors, and nursing home care-givers.
Why is this instrument so successful?
- Beautiful shape is inviting - everyone wants to hold this instrument
- Lightweight and comfortable to hold for even the most frail individuals
- Pentatonic tuning means there is simply no wrong way to play this instrument
- Players love feeling the vibrations through the wood
"I'm finding that when I bring the Reverie Harp into a one to one visit it's a great entree. It's another vehicle to open up a person's heart"
~ Ann Bergstrom, Chaplain
"Ultimately I do what I do to help the people I'm working with. This tool helps me to do that"
~ Dr. Annie Heiderscheit, Board Certified Music Therapist
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ABSTRACT: Please enter the number of offices in the Qty box that will require data preparation and import, if you are a multi-office hospice. To learn more about the PDV click here.
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| Patient Data Vault (PDV) Data Setup, Configuration & Data Import Fees
ABSTRACT: The Patient Data Vault is a volunteer data management and reporting system that is revolutionizing the way hospice volunteer programs are managed. The service makes it easier for volunteers to do their work and submit reports with ease while saving hospice volunteer programs money through improved operating efficiencies.
This store item allows hospices to pay their initial subscription configuration, setup & data import fees with their credit card. Please enter "1" in the Qty box for this item. If you are a multi-office hospice please use the Patient Data Vault (PDV) - Additional Office Data Import Fee store item to pay fees for all offices beyond the first office.
. To learn more about the PDV click here.
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| Prepayment for Patient Data Vault (PDV) Services
This store item allows PDV subscribers to pre-pay their monthly services fees. PDV services are charged based upon actual number of users submitting forms during each monthly billing period. The actual fees accrued during a billing period will be deducted from the Service Unit account balance each month. The account balance will be reflected in the accounting grid on the PDV Billing page.
This item is sold as a Service Unit. The cost of each unit is shown in the Price column at the right. Please select the number of units you wish to purchase in the Qty box to the right.
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