Today in my church, University United Methodist Church in Austin, Texas we celebrated World Communion Sunday. Along those same lines, this coming Sunday, October 8, 2011, is World Hospice and Palliative Care Day. Seldom a week goes by that I don’t hear accolades about the role of hospice in end-of-life times. For our family, hospice [...]
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World days
Posted in Featured, hospice, NHPCO, Palliative Care on October 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Health Care Reform – An Accurate Perspective on End-of-Life Care
Posted in Featured, hospice, NHPCO, tagged Healthcare reform, NHPCO on October 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Given all of the mis-information and escalated rhetoric about health care reform, especially as it relates to end-of-life healthcare issues, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization has provided us with an accurate and timely web-site link to stay abreast of this important issue currently being debated in Washington, DC and across the country.
Travelling without a map: A valuable resource.
Posted in Featured, hospice, NHPCO, tagged Advance Care Planning, NHPCO on October 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Recently I came across the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s document entitled Are You Traveling Without a Map? A Layperson’s Guide to Advance Care Planning. The resource seems excellent, and I would encourage you to check it out for yourselves and/or those around you. Melody
Advance Directives On-Line
Posted in Featured, hospice, NHPCO, tagged Google Health, NHPCO, Resources and Information, Rev. Charles Meyer, The Good Death on August 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of the most important components of what the late Rev. Charles Meyer refers to as The Good Death is to get our medical and legal affairs in order long before end-of-life is near. Such a pro-active plan allows us to have our collective faculties around us when making decisions like what kind of medical care [...]
Hospice Horizons International – A Look at Myanmar …
Posted in Featured, hospice, tagged International hospice services, U Hla Tun Hospice (Cancer) Foundation on August 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Wendy Bixby is the fabulous Volunteer Coordinator at Hospice Austin’s Christopher House. She recently spent a month travelling in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. Myanmar is just west of China and is about the same size as our home state of Texas. During her visit, Wendy was fortunate to visit six hospitals and one of two existing hospices. [...]
Williamson County Hospice Services – A New Resource
Posted in end-of-life care, hospice, tagged Christopher House, Lighthouse Hospice, Residential hospice services on July 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Central Texas, where I live, is blessed with tremendous hospice organizations providing a variety of services. In previous blogs I have repeatedly mentioned the privilege I have of volunteering for Hospice Austin which, among many other types of care, operates a 15-bed residential hospice care center called Christopher House, one of the greatest places I’ve ever seen [...]
New Alliance Launched To Address Urgent Palliative Care Needs
Posted in end-of-life care, Featured, hospice, NHPCO, Palliative Care, WPCA, tagged hospice, Palliative Care, WPCA on May 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just recently the Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance (WPCA) launched a new global action network designed to focus exclusively on hospice and palliative care development worldwide. The full press announcement can be found here . More than 100 million people and their families worldwide need palliative care and support each year; however, it is estimated that [...]
