Hospice, Palliative Care, Bereavement, Caregiving

This is our new look at www.t-g-a.org These are exciting times as we are totally revamping that website as well. We are looking for folks to help us with links, event listings, reviews or in any of a number of different ways. Please contact us if you can participate in this project; to help caregivers improve the quality of their day to day work, to help clinicians put their full attention and compassion into their jobs in spite of daunting paperwork and administrative overload, to help the elderly have a fulfilling end of life experience. Please contact us if you can contribute in any way!

Hospice, Palliative Care, Grief, Bereavement,.

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Two topical sites w.r.t. end-of-life care

A fascinating article with some other resources and articles at the end:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeanne-dennis/end-of-life-care_b_831474.html

A new initiative of NHPCO Caring Connections:
http://www.caringinfo.org/files/public/outreach/Faith_Marketplace_Order_Form.pdf

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Prayers for the Dying

We are looking to assemble a directory of prayers that can be used for those who are dying. You can set up the reading space, establish contact and really make a difference! Please post to this blog or contact us.  See our listing of prayers as it exists now…we want to make it much more extensive

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What is the Revolution?

The Caregiver Revolution is a change in attitude from:

denial  to acceptance,

rebellion to transformation,

hurry to timelessness,

impatience to humor,

stability to change,

end of life to beginning of life.

There’s no time like the present to be present. Best wishes to you in your efforts!

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Wake Me Up to the Web

You might think this title means that you have to get out of bed in the morning, punch on your computer and get moving on the internet. No big deal, right?

Distinctly not.

What I am talking about is expanding your vision. We live in a boundless energy field and you’re an integral part of it. How can you become more aware of this? Or, better yet, how can you make this a part of your day to day consciousness?

1. Start the day with a short routine; either walking, exercise, meditation, prayer – some sort of regular practice that will bridge you into the day. If you do exercises they should have an internal element; that is involved with posture, breathing, chi flow, good energy, or clearing your mind.

2. Use affirmations and reminders throughout the day. Work with a saying or some positive reminder. You are trying to do something different – which is stay aware of the endless energy network which we call our “world.” You can count on this energy being there, so remind yourself that it is.

3. Pause. At some point when you are feeling pushed to the edge and your perspective becomes somewhat narrowed, ie you are totally stressed, try to take a minute or even one second to pause. Just do nothing. Don’t relax, just stop for a moment. Then go on stressing. Stress is good. We need it in certain situations. Tomorrow I will write about the one tenthousandth of a second relaxation method. Oh, but here’s a hint. If you drop the tension in your facial muscles, the entire body will relax.

4. Be assured. You can count on the unified field because it is the inherent nature of reality. Physics knows. The more you look for it the more certain of it you will become. It’s only your perception (and a mere thousands of years of cultural conditioning) that have prevented you from seeing it, and now you hold the key.

We will proceed on to relaxation, chi, healing, and beyond…so stay tuned.

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Creating Moments of Joy: A Journal for Caregivers, Fourth Edition

“Everything is in the process of being forgotten But who we are – who we have been in  personality, mood and character- persists much longer.  David Dodson Gray p.18

A very insightful quote about our true nature in this wonderful book by Jolene Brackey.  Here, early in the book, she is talking about the characteristic reversion in age behaviours of many Alzheimer’s patients. She then goes on to discuss the nature and characteristics of dementia and provides many activities and techniques that allow us to joyfully relate to the Alzheimer’s patient.


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