November is National Alzheimer’s Awareness Month, first designated back in 1983 by President Ronald Reagan, at which time only two million Americans suffered from the disease. Today, that number has soared to 5.7 million. Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form…
Grieving the loss of a loved one after suffering a long illness in hospice is particularly heartbreaking. While hospice may have given you time to process the impending death and spend time with your parent, spouse or sibling, it’s still…
Approximately 21 million Americans suffer from diabetes, a disease that makes it difficult for the body to convert sugar to energy, with six million people unaware they even have it. Scientists have found a link between Type 2 diabetes (the…
Losing someone you love fiercely is a life changer. Even if you’ve been able to prepare for the event, watching your loved one decline throughout hospice, the death is still a shock to the system. While grief is a normal…
Massage therapy can be relaxing and comforting for all ages, but hospice patients in particular can benefit immensely from this form of therapy that has been proven to provide significant improvement for pain, anxiety and health-related quality of life for…
With October being National Financial Planning Month, we thought it would be appropriate to discuss the key documents every senior should have as they navigate through home health care and hospice in Santa Clara and elsewhere. In 2016, for the…
Every September marks World Alzheimer’s Month, an annual international campaign designed to raise awareness and challenge the stigma that surrounds dementia. In honor of World Alzheimer’s Month in general and World Alzheimer’s Day specifically on September 21, we explore the…
There’s a new approach to understanding complicated grief and it all has to do with the biopsychosocial impact of the death of a loved one. Turns out, grief is rooted in science, with the grief-counseling field tasked with identifying and…
You may have taken a yoga class before, but have you taken a laughter yoga class before? It’s a thing. And it’s been praised as being a conduit for easing pain in hospice patients. As we enter National Yoga Awareness…
We’ve all been raised as kids to never tell a lie, yet isn’t there a gray area in many instances? Especially when it comes to telling vulnerable people the cold hard truth. Most of us don’t see the harm…