Hospice Matters
A newsletter for family and friends of Montgomery Hospice
- Read Hospice Matters online.
- Hospice Matters Fall 2018 (download PDF)
- Grieve and Stay Well: Rethinking Wellness for the Workplace
- Grieving With Kids
- Reflections about Grief in the Workplace by Montgomery Hospice Staff Members
- Hospice Matters Spring 2018 (PDF 2.2MB)
- No Shame in Grief: Letting Go of Facebook-Perfect Suffering
- Ann Mitchell, President & CEO: Listening to Patient Stories
- Hospice Chaplains and Spiritual Care: Misconceptions and Facts
- Hospice Matters Fall 2017 (PDF 1.8MB)
- Hospice Matters Spring 2017 (PDF 1.1MB)
- Taking Care of YOU: Self-Care for Family Caregivers
- Ann Mitchell, President & CEO: I admire and respect all who are or have been caregivers.
- Hospice Matters Fall 2016 (PDF 569KB)
- Grief is in the Details
- Dealing with Caregiver Guilt
- Should I attend a Grief Support Group?
- Hospice Matters Spring 2016 (PDF 2.53MB)
- Casey House: an Important View
- Casey House Changes Lives: a Hospice Aide’s Story
- Casey House Nursing: a “Calling”
- Hospice Matters Fall 2015 (PDF 1.74MB)
- Integrating Complementary Therapies into Holistic Care at Montgomery Hospice
- Complementary Therapies, Integrative Medicine
- Complementary Therapies Used at Montgomery Hospice
- Patient stories
- Hospice Matters Spring 2015 (PDF 4.5MB)
- Getting Grief Right
- Conversations That Matter
- Bereavement Care Services: Supporting Grieving Community Members
- Hospice Matters Fall 2014 (PDF 1.74MB)
- How We Relieve Patient Pain and Fears
- Questions & Answers about Morphine
- Working to Facilitate Clinician-Patient Communications
- Do Real Men Cry? Help for Men Who Grieve and Those Who Care About Them
- Hospice Matters Spring 2014 (PDF 414KB)
- The Power of Playing On
- Eugene B. Casey Foundation donation
- The Man in the Mirror
- Helping Teenagers Deal with Losses
- Hospice Matters Fall 2013 (PDF 626KB)
- How Not to Say the Wrong Thing
- Grief – Dispelling the Myth of Letting Go
- The Guts to Keep Going
- Workshop: African-Americans & End-of-Life Care
- Hospice Matters Spring 2013 (PDF 449KB)
- Hospice Discussions with Asian Patients
- Complementary Therapies
- Paul Brenner, a “persevering pioneer”
- Research: hospice improves quality and lowers cost
- Hospice Matters Fall 2012 (PDF 686KB)
- My parent’s end-of-life wishes
- Hard (but necessary) conversations to have with loved ones
- Grief during the holidays
- Take me out to the ball game (a patient’s story)
- A Montgomery Hospice chaplain reflects on meaning at the end of life
- Hospice Matters Spring 2012 (PDF 514KB)
- Growing through grief: the challenge of change (Dr. Robert Neimeyer)
- Love is stronger than death
- The Best Care Possible: a new book by Dr. Ira Byock
- Hospice Matters Fall 2011 (PDF 645KB)
- Ways to help a grieving friend
- Hospice social workers: walking alongside patients and families
- A poem of gratitude
- Casey House: a community treasure
- Hospice Matters Spring 2011 (PDF 536KB)
- Culture counts: caring for Jewish patients and families
- Time for a serious conversation (Dr. Ira Byock)
- Advance care planning: definitions
- Hospice Matters Fall 2010 (PDF 750KB)
- Why you, an African American, should choose hospice care
- The three I’s of hospice care (a chaplain’s story)
- Remembering Sylvia (a patient’s story)
- Ode to my bathtub
- Hospice Matters Spring 2010 (PDF 514KB)
- Breaking the silence of loss
- Montgomery Hospice partners with nursing homes and assisted living facilities
- Polly’s plants (a patient and volunteer story)
- Hospice Matters Fall 2009 (PDF 605KB)
- Casey House tenth anniversary
- Ed Asher’s team: making the dream come true
- Casey House construction slowed by baby birds
- A unique birthday party
- An international delegation visits Casey House
- In memory of Chris Boland (a patient story)
- Hospice Matters Spring 2009 (PDF 372KB)
- Love is a legacy that will never die (Abigail Trafford)
- Hospital liaisons: supporting patients and hospital clinicians behind the scene
- High-quality hospice care: assessing the options
- Montgomery Hospice’s award-winning volunteers
- Teens honor their grandmother
- Music heals the heart
- Hospice Matters Fall 2008 (PDF 2.91MB)
- Misguided metaphor (Dr. Wendy Harpham)
- In memory: Sally Ketchum, a Montgomery Hospice founder
- Three siblings, three journeys
- Research: widows/widowers live longer if their spouse received hospice services
- A ribbon tied to the heart
- Sea glass (a poem)