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Category Archives: Professional Advice
What is a Death Care Midwife? An Interview with Akhila Murphy
An expert shares her advice on alternative ways to personally memorialize your loved one
Today SevenPonds speaks to Akhila Murphy, a trained death-care midwife who has been practicing since 2013. Murphy’s job is to help families create beautiful personalized memorial services for loved ones inside their own homes. In this first part of our … Continue reading
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Tagged Death, Death-Care Midwife, end-of-life, Family, Final Passages, Full-Circle Living & Dying Collective, green burials, Grief Loss and Bereavement, Guide, Home Funeral, Home funeral rituals, Home funeral service, Hospice, Interview, Life, Loved One, Memorial, Mortuary, Parlor, SevenPonds
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How Do I Memorialize a Loved One with Jewelry? An Interview with Claire McHan
An expert talks about making diamonds from a loved one's hair or ashes
Today, SevenPonds speaks with Claire McHan, operations manager and support manager for Heart In Diamond, a company that specializes in making diamonds out of loved one’s hair or ashes and converting them into beautiful pieces of jewelry that serve as memorials … Continue reading
What is a Doctor’s Role in Advance Care Planning? An Interview with Dr. Karl Steinberg, MD: Part Two
A medical doctor discusses his passion for palliative and hospice care
Today SevenPonds concludes our discussion with Dr. Karl Steinberg, MD. about his two-decade medical practice focusing on palliative and hospice care. (Read Part One here.) Dr. Steinberg is the medical director of three nursing homes and Hospice by the Sea … Continue reading
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Tagged Allow natural death, AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Family medicine, Home care, Hospice, Hospice care in the United States, Medicare (United States), medicine, Nursing, Nursing home care, Palliative Care, Residential care
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What is a Doctor’s Role in Advance Care Planning? An Interview with Dr. Karl Steinberg, MD: Part One
A medical doctor discusses his passion for palliative and hospice care
Today SevenPonds chats with Dr. Karl Steinberg, MD. about his two-decade medical practice focusing on palliative and hospice care. Dr. Steinberg is the medical director of three nursing homes and Hospice by the Sea (since 1995). He currently sits on the … Continue reading
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Tagged California Palliative Care, End-of-life care, End-of-Life Planning, geriatric care, Home care, Hospice, Nursing, Nursing home, Nursing home care, Palliative Care, Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner, Palliative Care Nursing Home, Palliative Medicine
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What Are Some Implications of the California End of Life Options Act? An Interview with Sarah Hooper
An expert on medical-legal issues weighs in on the new physician-aid-in-dying law
Today SevenPonds speaks with Sarah Hooper, the Executive Director of the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy and Adjunct Professor of Law at UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, California. A recognized expert in … Continue reading
How Can a Family Best Work with a Coroner or Medical Examiner? Interview with Judy Melinek
A medical examiner shares Information about death investigations
Today, SevenPonds speaks with Judy Melinek, M.D., a forensic pathologist who does autopsies for the Alameda County Sheriff Coroner’s Office in California. Dr. Melinek has a bachelor’s degree from Harvard and medical degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. She … Continue reading
