YOUR MORTALITY IS AN OPPORTUNITY IN DISGUISE By Reena Lazar + Michelle Pante
Thanks to Michelle and Reena for this posting…. Earlier this year, we (Michelle and Reena) both spent time actively being with the fact that we’re going to die and we don’t know when; could be tomorrow, could be next week, or 37 years from now. It changed our lives. We each wrote a Heart […]
New Award for a Compassionate Community Caregiver –
I am deeeelighted to announce, the new: Frances Montgomery Compassionate Communities Caregiver Award (Photo of Frankie and myself in Times Square in New York City a few years ago) Created and Sponsored by Life and Death Matters The Award This award celebrates the immense contributions of the social community in caring for people at end-of-life and […]
It Takes A Village….
It takes a village to raise a child, (and my mother added, “It takes a community to care for the dying”). I often think of this quote and celebrate the people who helped me to raise my kids, and those who contribute to the development of hospice and palliative care education resources. This past week […]
Introducing the new nursing text – and how it came to be
A bunch of years ago I met with a group of HPC leaders several times over a number of months. Each month George Eisler from the BC Academic Health Counsel, would ask the question, “How do we prepare the workforce for the coming tsunami of dying?” At the end of the series of meetings a […]
