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  1. Time-tested contemplative methods to care for people at the end of life. Develop #mindfulness and #meditation techniques, and apply them in self-care and building therapeutic relationships with dying patients and families.

    authentic-presence.org/mindful

    #endoflife #paliativecare

  2. Time-tested contemplative methods to care for people at the end of life. Develop #mindfulness and #meditation techniques, and apply them in self-care and building therapeutic relationships with dying patients and families.

    authentic-presence.org/mindful

    #endoflife #paliativecare

  3. CW: End of life stuff, death, advice please

    My grandmother is dying and she doesn't know it. She has Alzheimer's and forgets what's happened even 30 seconds earlier. Some things stick sometimes, and it depends on the day. Maybe she will remember it for 5 minutes.

    Do you tell a dying person they're dying over and over? So far we have just been telling a lie, that she will be out of hospital soon. Which isn't true. But she is very anxious and not happy to be there.

    My instinct is to continue to lie, for her comfort, because she can't handle learning she's dying for the first time every 5 minutes.

    But on the other hand, she probably has things she wants to say in the context of her dying. Like things she wants to tell us, wants us to know. I want her to have the opportunity to say what she needs to, even if she will forget. She deserves to know she's dying so she can consider certain things.

    Do I just have a conversation about love and what we mean to each other, without bringing up her death?

    #hospice #EndOfLifeDoulas #EndOfLife #death #grieving #paliativecare