While all of us will die, none of us want to think about someone precious in our world dying. Hearing that a loved one has been diagnosed with a life limiting condition or illness can literally knock the wind out of our sails. So the first thing to do is to stop and...
One conversation that is often held in my world when speaking with care workers who work in aged care settings is around what happens after a resident dies.How organisations handle this can make a substantial difference to the emotional health of not just staff, other...
In his best selling book, “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change, Stephen R Covey states, “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”One arena where this is patently obvious...
Having conversations with your nearest and dearest about your end of life wishes is one of THE most important aspects of end of life care. Currently, most of those conversations happen in times of crisis, when the proverbial hits the fan and that is never going to...
Today’s post for National Palliative Care Week 2017 is all centred on the above…know that your end journey or sharing it with a loved one will cover all of these aspects and probably multiple times. Today marks four years since my Mum got to meet her first great...
Being National Palliative Care Week 2017, I thought we’d cover some of the basics that people may not know/understand. So, in my very best Julie Andrews singing voice (that is not even close to being as fabulous as hers…), “Let’s start at the...
