Tag Archive: health care
CANCELED: Lunch & Learn: Advance Care Planning
Due to the COVID-19 Outbreak, all AuthoraCare events are canceled through the end of April. Advance Care Planning – How... Read More
What is Palliative Care?
Learn about this invaluable resource before you need it! Most adults will suffer from a serious, life-limiting illness in their... Read More
A Day in the Life of Amy Johnson, Hospice Nurse
Amy Johnson, a nurse with Hospice and Palliative Care of Greensboro (HPCG), arrives at Whitestone Retirement community at 11 a.m.,... Read More
What’s going to happen next? Grappling With the Unknowns of Illness, Death and Dying
Some things that are comforting: control, knowledge, predictability and routine. Some things that are uncomfortable: lack of control, the unknown,... Read More
Coping with a Terminal Diagnosis
“The opposite of hope is despair, and when we despair, it is because we feel there are no choices.” –Warren... Read More
Caregiving for the Aging Senses Part 3: Hearing
Hearing is a degenerative sense, meaning that it naturally deteriorates with age. The tiny hairs in our ears (called stereocilia)... Read More
Caregiving for the Aging Senses Part 2: Touch
A tight embrace from a loved one. The soft warmth of a newborn baby on your chest. The soothing comfort... Read More
Caregiving for the Aging Senses Part 1: Vision
It is no secret that eyesight tends to deteriorate with age. The age-old trope of a grandma with thick-lensed glasses... Read More
Seasonal Depression: It’s More than the “Winter Blues”
Undiagnosed, untreated, unrecognized Seasonal Affective Disorder could be making the tough times tougher As if it weren’t sufficiently challenging to... Read More