The following is a message from the Blue Skies staff inviting anyone in need to attend meetings of the Blue Skies Bereavement Support Group. Arlene Bakota, a Registered Nurse and Bereavement Coordinator, facilitates each meeting. Below are the details
Where: 2714 169th Street, Hammond, IN 46323
When: Saturday, January 28th, 2012
Saturday, February 25th
Saturday, March 31st
Saturday, April 28th
Saturday, May 26th
Saturday, June 30th
Saturday, July 28th
Saturday, August 2th
Saturday, September 29th
Saturday, October 27th
Saturday, November 17th
Saturday, December 15h
Time: 2:30pm
We believe this meeting will be beneficial for both those who have experienced the loss of a loved one and for those who are currently a patient or friends and family of patients still within hospice. We hope that you will make plans to join Blue Skies Hospice as we seek to provide overall care for our patients and their friends and families.
Please RSVP to (219) 554-0688
November 13, 2011
November 2, 2011
Re-Imagine The End of Life with Hospice
Thomas Patrick Donovan, the community liason for Rocky Mountain Hospice in Bozeman, Montana, addresses the question, "Does choosing hospice mean giving up?" in a beautifully written essay for the Helena Independent Record:
"To hold fast to the belief that choosing hospice means admitting that one has failed is, in truth, a failure of our ability to imagine the end of life being anything other than a hard, possibly painful, winter that we have to suffer through. Perhaps it is time to re-imagine the end of life: rather than giving up, hospice is the successful embrace of community, a way of being there for each other. Hospice offers the caring arms of hospitality to patient, family, and friends and, as a result, creates a way to meet the winter of life that has comfort and dignity at its foundation."
Read more: http://helenair.com/news/opinion/does-choosing-hospice-mean-giving-up/article_9107977a-0518-11e1-8069-001cc4c002e0.html#ixzz1cbjKJGMR
"To hold fast to the belief that choosing hospice means admitting that one has failed is, in truth, a failure of our ability to imagine the end of life being anything other than a hard, possibly painful, winter that we have to suffer through. Perhaps it is time to re-imagine the end of life: rather than giving up, hospice is the successful embrace of community, a way of being there for each other. Hospice offers the caring arms of hospitality to patient, family, and friends and, as a result, creates a way to meet the winter of life that has comfort and dignity at its foundation."
Read more: http://helenair.com/news/opinion/does-choosing-hospice-mean-giving-up/article_9107977a-0518-11e1-8069-001cc4c002e0.html#ixzz1cbjKJGMR
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