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Alzheimer’s and Personal Care Choices
For those of us with Alzheimer’s, making our needs and desires known becomes increasingly more difficult as the illness progresses. With Alzheimers personal care choices and needs will change over time. Making our personal care choices known while we are still able to understand their meaning can reduce stress and improve our quality of life as we ease into later years. Advanced dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, is the sixth leading cause of death overall in the United States. It is the fifth leading cause for people over 65, and the third for those over 85. Yet once the disease approaches its terminal stages, patients are unable to communicate their desires for or against…
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Happy Birthday!
Join us in celebrating serving Southeast Texas for 5 years this weekend! We’re honored that you’ve trusted us to give compassionate care to you and your loved ones over the last five years, thank you 🙂 – the staff from Compassion Hospice: Allen, Melanie, Maria, Dawn, Mona, Joyce, Angelina, Mellouise, Cheryl, David, Ashley, Vanessa, Paula, Jean and Judy 🙂
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Fall Bereavement Group Times
We are continuing to offer bereavement support groups free to anyone who has recently suffered a loss or is having difficult coping from a prior loss. Led by a Licensed Professional Counselor and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, we try to meet you where you are in the grief process and to gain some insight into your grief issues. We will be meeting on the last Wednesday of each month from 12pm-1pm. Please feel free to join us if you feel this is something that would be beneficial to you. Meeting days are as follows: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 Wednesday, November 30, 2011 Wednesday, December 28, 2011 Please feel free to contact Melanie…
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Bereavement Support Group Change
In an effort to better serve those who are in need of grief and bereavement support, we are changing our times and dates of our support groups. We understand that many of you have busy schedules and can often find it difficult to attend groups during the middle of the day. Therefore, we are going to offer our groups once a month during the lunch hour to better accomodate work schedules. Our new groups will meet the last Wednesday of each month from 12:00-1:00pm. Our summer groups will meet: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 12:00 – 1:00 Wednesday, August 31, 2011 12:00 – 1:00 Wednesday, September 28, 2011 12:00 – 1:00 Our groups are…
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Grief and Bereavement Support Groups
Compassion Hospice is offering grief and bereavement support groups to help anyone who has suffered the loss of a loved one. The group is free to anyone in the community, your loved one did not have to be a patient at Compassion Hospice. We understand that loss and grief are experienced in a number of different ways and we want to be there for you, no matter where you are in your grief process. We will discuss issues such as feelings associated with the loss, loss of role, types of grief, and answer any questions that you may regarding your own grief process. Please join us in our support groups this month on…