Tag Archives: Caregiving

Physical Intimacy and the Dying

Is Touching Taboo?

Join SevenPonds each month as Tani Bahti, RN, CT, CHPN, offers practical on-hand guidance to demystify the dying process. As an RN since 1976, Tani has been working to empower families and healthcare professionals to have the best end-of-life experience possible both through education and the … Continue reading

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Caring for a Dying Loved One? Be Gentle With Yourself.

Dying is unpredictable and messy. Don’t blame yourself if it doesn’t go according to plan

Join SevenPonds each month as Tani Bahti, RN, CT, CHPN, offers practical on-hand guidance to demystify the dying process. As an RN since 1976, Tani has been working to empower families and healthcare professionals to have the best end-of-life experience possible both through education and the … Continue reading

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For-Profit Hospices Discharging Patients Before Their Time

Cost savings take precedence over patient wishes, study shows

According to a recent New York Times article, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission has found that approximately 20 percent of hospice patients in the United States are being discharged from care before they die. Of this number, the article suggests, … Continue reading

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Caregiving or Caring? Connection Can Be Lost in a Maze of Tasks

Remember to acknowledge the personhood of the loved one in your care as your roles shift

Join SevenPonds each month as Tani Bahti, RN, CT, CHPN, offers practical on-hand guidance to demystify the dying process. As an RN since 1976, Tani has been working to empower families and healthcare professionals to have the best end-of-life experience possible both through education and the … Continue reading

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How It All Could Be: A Work Book for Dying People and for Those Who Love Them” by Stephen Jenkinson

Stephen Jenkinson's little book offers mighty ideas to rethink dying and grieving in a death-denying culture

Stephen Jenkinson (MTS, MSW) is an author, teacher, spiritual activist, farmer, subject of the film Griefwalker, and former palliative care professional. His 2009 publication, 

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Why is Death Midwifery Important? An Interview with Pashta MaryMoon, Part Three

A Canadian Death Midwife shares a lifetime of insight

Today in the final installment of a three-part interview (read part one here and part two here), SevenPonds speaks with Pashta MaryMoon, Death Midwife at Journeys Beyond, and co-founder of CINDEA (Canadian Integrated Network of Death Education and Alternatives). Topics … Continue reading

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