Celebrate Hospice and Family Caregivers This Month
November is National Hospice Month, a month to recognize the invaluable work that hospices do each day, to educate consumers about the benefits of hospice, and to honor those who cope with caregiving and end-of-life issues in their own lives.
HFA has some excellent resources that shatter myths about hospice care and can help promote the concept of hospice.
National Family Caregivers Month (NFC Month) is designated as a time every year to thank, support, educate and celebrate more than 50 million family caregivers across the country currently providing an estimated $306 billion in "free" caregiving services. This year NFC Month will focus on family caregivers speaking up for their rights. The National Family Caregivers Association has a number of materials online.
HFA has some excellent resources that shatter myths about hospice care and can help promote the concept of hospice.
National Family Caregivers Month (NFC Month) is designated as a time every year to thank, support, educate and celebrate more than 50 million family caregivers across the country currently providing an estimated $306 billion in "free" caregiving services. This year NFC Month will focus on family caregivers speaking up for their rights. The National Family Caregivers Association has a number of materials online.
Labels: caregiving, hospice and palliative care
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I spent three years caring for my mother full-time, and she did pass away at the age of 92--at home with us and with the help hospice. (My mother suffered with Parkinsons and Alzheimer's).
Not only was I a caregiver, but my family was. My husband built the apartment onto our house that my mother lived in. He talked with her each day, helped her walk from room to room, and picked her up when she fell.
My teenage daughter's were also caregivers--they watched my mother for me to run errands, made meals, bought groceries, made me cups of hot tea and offered many, many hugs.
This month celebrates Family Caregivers, and I'm grateful I had a family to share this experience with. We all learned a lot. We learned how to love.
~Carol O'Dell
uthor of MOTHERING MOTHER
available on Amazon and in most bookstores.
~Carol D. O'Dell
author of MOTHERING MOTHER: A Daughter's Humorous and Heartbreaking Memoir.
Available on Amazon and in most bookstores.
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