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  • Caregiver roles, challenges and support
    • Fall Prevention
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      • Advocating for yourself
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    • Communicating with Family/Friends/Community
      • Talking to Children – Death and Loss
    • Difficult conversations
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      • Questions to ask providers or hospitals
  • Community Disability & Transportation Resources
    • Medical and disability support equipment
    • Specialized transit
  • Culturally Responsive Care
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    • Lung Disease/Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
    • Kidney Disease
    • HIV/AIDS
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    • Stroke
    • Parkinsons
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    • Arthritis/Fibromyalgia
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  • Navigating the Healthcare System
    • Insurance
    • Types of Care
      • Chronic Conditions Management
      • Complementary and Alternative Care
      • Dementia Care
      • Emotional and Spiritual Care
      • Intensive-Care (Hospitals)
      • Long Distance Care (& Technology)
      • Long-term Care
        • Assisted Living Facility
        • In-Home Care
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      • Long-term serious illness Care
      • Nutritional Support
      • Pain & Symptom Management
      • Palliative Care
        • In-Patient Palliative Care (Hospital)
        • Hospice
        • Out-Patient Palliative Care
  • Personal Responses to Death and Dying
    • Grief
      • Helping someone who is grieving
      • Bereavement Support
      • Death of a child
      • Coping with Grief
      • Complicated or disenfranchised grief
      • Miscarriage
    • At the end
    • Cultural Resources
    • Creative Arts
  • Planning and Making Choices
    • Legal Issues
    • Learning to Die
    • Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking
    • Suicide
    • Planning for your Death
    • Advance Care Planning
    • Aid in Dying/Death with Dignity
    • Financial Issues
    • Planning for Living with Serious Illness
  • Rituals and Remembrances
    • "Good" death
    • Burial and alternatives
    • Goodbyes
    • Funerals
  • Support Groups
  • Volunteering
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January 15, 2020 • Other

Foley Catheter – A poem of Caregiving

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September 4, 2018 • Personal Responses to Death and Dying, Grief, Rituals and Remembrances, Goodbyes

Supermarket Flowers

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April 10, 2018 • Communicating, Communicating with Family/Friends/Community, Planning and Making Choices, Advance Care Planning

Have the Conversation

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March 26, 2018 • Other

A Place of Healing

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February 6, 2018 • Caregiver roles, challenges and support, Disease Specific Information & Treatment, Cancer, Navigating the Healthcare System, Emotional and Spiritual Care

We Have Done This Before

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January 19, 2018 • Communicating with Family/Friends/Community, Talking to Children - Death and Loss, Personal Responses to Death and Dying, Grief, Death of a child, Coping with Grief, Rituals and Remembrances, Goodbyes

What I learned from a five year old about grief

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January 17, 2018 • Personal Responses to Death and Dying, Grief, Death of a child, Coping with Grief, Goodbyes

Road to Recovery: Grief on a Road-Trip

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December 4, 2017 • Rituals and Remembrances, Burial and alternatives, Goodbyes, Funerals, Other

Scattering Ashes from a Washington State Ferry

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November 18, 2017 • Personal Responses to Death and Dying, Planning and Making Choices, Learning to Die, "Good" death, Planning for Living with Serious Illness

The Lessons of Death: A Conversation with Frank Ostaseski

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September 29, 2017 • Caregiver roles, challenges and support, Personal Responses to Death and Dying, Grief

The Wayward Daughter

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September 1, 2017 • Disease Specific Information & Treatment, Lung Disease/Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Cystic Fibrosis, Planning for Living with Serious Illness

I Lived

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May 25, 2017 • Planning and Making Choices, Planning for your Death, Aid in Dying/Death with Dignity, Rituals and Remembrances, Goodbyes

Celebrating Life and the Gift of Death

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May 24, 2017 • Communicating with Family/Friends/Community, Difficult conversations, Communicating with the Providers & Health Care System, Planning and Making Choices, Advance Care Planning

Talking about death brings end-of-life benefits 

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May 8, 2017 • Caregiver roles, challenges and support, Difficult conversations, Dementia Care, Emotional and Spiritual Care, Personal Responses to Death and Dying, Creative Arts

Who Will Care for You?

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April 26, 2017 • Caregiver roles, challenges and support, Communicating, Advocating, Advocating for someone else, Communicating with Family/Friends/Community, Communicating with the Providers & Health Care System, Out-Patient Palliative Care, Other, In-Home Care

Who Will Care for the Caregivers?

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