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Tag Archives: Dying Process
When Your Dying Loved One Refuses Food
As your loved one’s body fails, feed their soul with kindness and love
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
Posted in Dying Well
Tagged appetite, Dying Process, Dying to Know, Dying Well, End-of-life care, Nourishment, Nutrition, Tani Bahti
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Managing Breathlessness at the End of Life
Dying from lung disease can be a peaceful end
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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Tagged breathing, Dying Process, end of life education, lung disease, oxygen at end of life, Palliative Care
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Deathbed Visions as Messages for the Living
The beauty and mystery of deathbed phenomena can give comfort to those left behind
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
Final Messages of the Dying
Finding meaning in metaphors and symbolic language
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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Tagged Communication, Dying Process, final messages, Meaning, visions
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Understanding Fatigue at the End of Life
Dying is hard work. The dying body has little energy for getting out of bed.
Join SevenPonds each month as Tani Bahti, RN, CT, CHPN, offers practical on-hand guidance to demystify the dying process. 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 development … Continue reading
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Tagged Dying Process, End-of-life care, energy changes, Fatigue (medical), terminal illness
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A Friend in Life and Death
Ann Clark incorporates her Stanford science background, a Masters in Transpersonal Psychology and a clinical massage certification to meet the needs of seniors approaching the end of life
Ann Clark has a playful light in her blue-green eyes. Now in her seventies, her exuberant presence is inviting, and you just want to be her friend. Ann’s zest for life shines even through the countless hours spent by the … Continue reading
