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Author Archives: Debra L. Stang (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)
How Can Non-Medical Care Keep Your Loved One Safe and Comfortable? An Interview with Bridget Waller, RN, Part Two
Non-medical home care helps patients who are ill or at the end of life to stay at home.
In the second part of this two-part interview (read part one here), Bridget Waller, R.N., founder and owner of Hillendale Home Care, talks to SevenPonds about non-medical home care and how it can be integrated with hospice when patients are reaching the … Continue reading
How Can Non-Medical Home Care Keep Your Loved One Safe and Comfortable? An Interview with Bridget Waller, Part One
An alternative to professional nursing care for people at the end of life
Today SevenPonds is speaking with Bridget Waller, R.N. the founder and owner of Hillendale Home Care, located in Walnut Creek, California. In this first part of a two-part interview, Bridget discusses non-medical home care as an option for patients with … Continue reading
“When I told my doctor I couldn’t afford an operation, he offered to touch up my x-rays.”
- Henry Youngman
“Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying” by Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley
Two hospice nurses explain nearing death awareness
Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kellley, the authors of “Final Gifts,” are hospice nurses with years of experience in the care of dying patients. In the course of their experience, they noticed that people close to death began to communicate their … Continue reading
Our Weekly Tip: How to Find Low Cost Grave Markers
Memorializing your loved one with a tasteful headstone
Our Tip of the Week: Headstones, sometimes called grave markers or tombstones, are usually purchased from the funeral home. The funeral home then orders your marker. You pay not only what the other company charges the funeral home. You also … Continue reading
