Many wait to call hospice for a loved one until their final days or weeks of life. The truth is that personalized nursing care, medical equipment and supplies related to their loved one’s terminal illness, could have started at no cost much earlier. The entire family could have received emotional, spiritual and grief support as [...]
A Grandmother’s Love Carl Roger’s stated “What is most personal is most universal.” Trusting this, I would like to share a bit of my grandma. My grandma was a proper, intelligent, caring woman who worked as a nurse and deeply loved her family. Our close relationship can be summed up in the conversation we had [...]
A Mind of Innovation and a Heart of Service Unity is a 501 c(3) nonprofit provider of comprehensive end-of-life care that includes hospice, palliative and grief support across 13 counties throughout Northeast Wisconsin. With a mind of innovation and a heart of service, Unity’s grief support program served over 8,500 people in 2018 and has [...]
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Grief is a Unique Experience The uncertainty of grief can be difficult to bear. There is a temptation to set timetables and expectations for the grieving process. Grief is a unique experience for each individual, and there is no clear timetable. In addition, there is no concrete path or instant relief. In other words, grief will take as [...]
Your Unique Grief Journey Whether you have experienced a recent death or a death that occurred months or years ago you have experienced grief and are on your grief journey. Your journey might be filled with questions, varying emotions, changes, relief, or acceptance. Even though you may find yourself around others who are also grieving, [...]
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When somebody has a terminal illness or has died one of the concerns we frequently hear about is how the disease progression and the death will impact the children in the individual’s life. These children may be the individual’s children, grandchildren, nieces or nephews, siblings, neighbors, close family friends, students, etc. The truth of the [...]
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