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What is Geriatric Consultation and In-Home Assessment? An Interview with Mary Hulme
Mary Hulme on how understanding, education and communication elevate geriatric care
Today, SevenPonds speaks with Mary Hulme of Moonstone Geriatrics. Mary is a San Francisco native who “packed up her 1966 Mustang and headed to the University of California, Santa Cruz [to] receive her BA in Psychology”. When she returned to … Continue reading
Posted in Professional Advice
Tagged Aging, Death, Dementia, Eldery care, Geriatric, Health, Health care, Mary Hulme, Memory Loss, Moonstone Geriatrics, Nursing home, San Francisco
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Till Death Do Us Part: Elderly Couple Leave Life Together
Edward Hale stayed by his wife's side until the New York couple shared their final breaths before dying.
Few can literally say they loved their husband or wife until his or her last breath – but New York resident Edward Hale is one of the rare cases who kept the marital promise « Till Death Do Us Part … Continue reading
Posted in Something Special
Tagged Aging couple, Batavia, Couple, Death, Death of a Spouse, Dying, Ed Hale, Elderly couple, Final breath, Floreen, Floreen Hale, Heart failure, Hospice, Hospital, Marriage, New York, Till Death Do Us Part
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Life & Death Silhouetted: Designboom’s “Portrait Urn”
How Dutch designer Nadia Gonegaï fuses art and end of life
There’s an unforgettable message in the cremation urn of Dutch designer Nadia Gonegaï. Art can bring vitality to everything, including end of life. The designer’s “Portrait Urn” was featured by Designboom’s Design for Death competition (of which SevenPonds has been … Continue reading
Posted in Soulful Expressions
Tagged Cremation, Death, Design, Design for Death, Designboom, Dutch, end-of-life, Life, Urn
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Tolkotin Native Americans: Rituals for the End of Life and Burial
Why Native American traditions for death and dying captivated early explorers.
North America, circa 1831: Irishman Ross Cox had long braved his emigration to America and finally published Adventures on the Columbia River. The early explorer’s book is integral to our understanding of the era, and not just because it informs … Continue reading
Messages from Beyond Death: “My Husband’s Things”
In the midst of grieving, widow Joans Marans Dim digs through her husband's past
The latest non-fiction essay by Joans Marans Dim, “My Husband’s Things”, is an intimate look into the grieving author’s struggle to accept the death of her husband, Stuart. Published in The New York Times last Wednesday, Dim’s essay chronicles the … Continue reading
“Death in the Sick Room” by Edvard Munch
The Munch painting explores tuberculosis and death through the survivors they affect
In the 1895 painting Death in the Sick Room, Norwegian symbolist Edvard Munch takes a unique look at his sister Johanne Sophie and her death by tuberculosis. Rather than fix his gaze on his sister, Munch directs his attention to … Continue reading
