Monthly Archives: August 2018

Silent discos are being staged in aged-care centres across Australia, and are proving especially popular with dementia sufferers. Source: Silent disco fever spreads through aged care centres and helps treat dementia – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — At 57 years old, Craig Brunner said many of his favorite memories took place on his bike.”I just miss being on the motorcycle, miss our trips, miss that open air,” his wife Diane Brunner said.After being … Continue reading →

1. Not traveling when you had the chance. Traveling becomes infinitely harder the older you get, especially if you have a family and need to pay the way for three-plus people instead of just yourself. 2. Not learning another language. … Continue reading →

From AIDS patients in the ’80s to the Boston Marathon bomber, Peter Stefan has built a career saving society’s undesirable dead from the fate of mass graves. Source: This Undertaker Buries the Bodies Nobody Else Will Touch

We’ve always encouraged you to write or video your own eulogy, so why not write your own obit as well? Far from seeming narcissistic, undertaking a self-obitua Source: Writing Your Own Obituary | My Own Eulogy

…how do you guide a patient through a life review and what is the aim of a life review? Source: Purpose, Forgiveness and Meaning at End of Life | BK Books

A Seemingly Ideal Life Source: The High Price That We Place on Failure – Uncalendared – Medium

Advocates create innovative programs to help inmates at the end of life Source: As America’s Incarcerated Age, the Need for Hospice Rises

Most of the deaths we attend don’t require the services of a social worker. But sometimes people do need good secular counseling following a death. That’s why we should be there, holding space, calling the funeral home, and being supportive. … Continue reading →

Source: Open To Hope, Support for Dealing with Death, Grief, Loss, Bereavement