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2013
- Health Care Decisions Series
- Do you know their wishes?
- Preventing C. difficile: A very difficult germ
- Stress and overeating
- The power of sleep
- What to do if your loved one is depressed
- When several relatives cover expenses
- Getting paid to care for Mom or Dad
- What is a hospitalist?
- When depression goes untreated
- Family and Medical Leave
- Is your loved one depressed?
- What is palliative care?
2012
- Choosing a complementary medical practitioner
- Supporting those in grief during the holidays
- Tips for air travel
- Giving thanks: It's good for your health
- Chapters Newsletter Available Online
- Solutions to hearing loss
- Tips for open enrollment
- International Suicide Survivors Conference
- Five signs your parents may need help
- Talking with Dad about his hearing loss
- What is hospice?
- Read Touching Lives Magazine, sponsored by Hospice of the Valley
- Managing pain with music
- Outpatient or inpatient? Why it's important to know
- Sage advice from elders
- Read the 2010-2011 Hospice of the Valley Annual Report
- Dressing your relative for incontinence
- What is a memory unit?
- When parents need financial help
- How to beat "decision fatigue"
- Safe disposal of "sharps"
- What is "assisted living"?
- Five keys to stress management
- Incontinence of the bowels
- When should you choose a skilled nursing facility?
- Engaging activities for persons with dementia
- Myths versus realities of hospice care
- When you gotta go, you gotta go
- Hospice of the Valley hosts End-of-Life Ethics Program
- If you are selected to be "power of attorney for health care"
- Putting yourself in positive perspective
- What does "generic" really mean?
- "The Best Care Possible" What It Is and How To Get It
- 2011 tax breaks for family caregivers
- Dealing with criticism
- Frequent infections in persons with dementia
- Read the Community Grief & Counseling Center Newsletter, Published by Hospice of the Valley
- If Dad wants to remarry
- Lessons from the seriously ill
- Skin care and aging
- "The Best Care Possible" What It Is and How To Get It
- Choosing healthy ways to cope
- Does Medicare pay for help at home?
- How to find a good doctor
2011
- A True Warrior
- Listening: The other half of the conversation
- Talking with children about serious illness
- Urinary tract infections: prevention tips
- Hospice of the Valley to host free community program
- Get help changing Medicare plans
- Is your home safe for older guests?
- Urinary tract infections
- Ambiguous Loss: Why We All Need to Understand It
- Benefits available to veterans
- The importance of vaccines
- Would having a dog help? A fish?
- Keeping Up With Visitors and Well-Wishers
- Seniors and crime
- Shifting focus in a tough situation
- When should you take over Mom's checkbook?
- Read Touching Lives magazine, sponsored by Hospice of the Valley
- Making the best use of your time off
- Strategies to address urinary incontinence
- When your loved one is depressed, try exercise
- Finding trust in a hospice care provider
- Accessing medical records
- Recognizing elder abuse
- Talking about urinary incontinence
- Read the Community Grief and Counseling Center Newsletter, published by Hospice of the Valley
- Interrupt the stress cycle with deep breathing
- Staying independent: the role of technology
- What is "elder abuse"?
- Read the most current issue of Passages published by Hospice of the Valley
- Cooking for caregivers
- Preparing for the hospital
- The value of nostalgia
- Read the latest Community Grief and Counseling Center Newsletter, sponsored by Hospice of the Valley
- How to choose a health care decision maker
- Keeping your relative safe from fraud
- The journey of late life
- Join the conversation on Facebook!
- Coping with another person's pain
- Is your family member a hoarder?
- Tax breaks for family caregivers
- Read Hospice of the Valley family stories
- Dad is so thin!
- Family Caregiver Happiness Project
- What is hoarding?
- Connect with Hospice of the Valley online
- Sibling rivalry revisited
- Tired of being the taxi?
- What's new in Medicare
2010
- Read the latest Community Grief and Counseling Center Newsletter, sponsored by Hospice of the Valley
- Coping with the holiday blues
- If you must take away the keys
- Making the transition from hospital to home
- Read the most current Passages, published by Hospice of the Valley
- Engage with Grace
- Help Mom be a safer driver
- Managing medications: Remembering to take medicines
- Managing medications: Why Mom doesn't take her pills
- Should Dad still be driving?
- The four stages of hope
- Read Touching Lives magazine, sponsored by Hospice of the Valley
- Do you have a plan in the event of a disaster?
- Get "Extra Help" with Medicare Rx Costs
- How is caregiving different for men?
- Read the latest Community Grief and Counseling Center Newsletter, sponsored by Hospice of the Valley
- Read the most current issue of Passages published by Hospice of the Valley
- Brain fitness: What's the best way to improve thinking?
- Getting support from your spiritual beliefs
- Read the Community Grief and Counseling Center Newsletter
- If your loved one becomes seriously ill while traveling
- Could an adult day program be the answer?
- How diet affects breathing
- Travel tips when your loved one is disabled
- Accessible national parks
- Avoiding crises with COPD
- Making your home safer
- Read Hospice of the Valley Family Stories
- Planning for travel with oxygen
- Review of the CareFinder Assessment Tool
- When is your loved one too isolated?
- Read the most current issue of Passages published by Hospice of the Valley
- What is an advance directive?
- Avoiding crises with congestive heart failure
- Finding positive aspects of aging
- Read the Community Grief and Counseling Center Most Recent Newsletter
- A clean home: Free services for women with cancer
- Tax tips for family caregivers
- Your changing role: Becoming a partner-in-care
- How to beat "cabin fever"
- Making treatment decisions
- Read the Community Grief and Counseling Center's Most Recent Newsletter
- Staying calm: Proven relaxation techniques
- Visit Our Family Story Page
- Bathing and dementia
- Can Mom live safely on her own?
- Reducing salt in Dad's diet
2009
- Finding meaning: The healing of torn relations
- Making the most of family visits
- When your loved one gets tired easily
- Grief and the Holidays
- A remedy for stress: focus on the rewards of caregiving
- Managing emotional outbursts
- What is "power of attorney"?
- Wings of Remembrance A Celebration of Life - December 6
- Read Hospice of the Valley's Most Current Newsletter
- Getting the most from doctor appointments
- Is the house too cold?
- Saving money on meds
- Is caregiving hazardous to your health?
- How do you know if your loved one is in pain?
- The healing power of music
- Is it Alzheimer's disease?
- The value of support groups
- If you have to go to the Emergency Room
- MyMedSchedule.com
- Safety tips for summer
- The healing power of volunteering
- Caregiving with kids
- Honoring Cancer Survivors Day: How to increase your odds of survival
- How the course of a condition affects the family
- Going on vacation with an elder
- The healing power of remembrance
- When Mom wants only you
- Balance exercises, an important step in preventing falls
- Have you completed an advance directive?
- Letting others pitch in
- Learning to accept help
- Uncle Sam may have a tax break for you
- When ice cream is more important than salad
- Caring for your marriage, also
- Keeping seniors safe from burns
- The healing power of a life review
- Costs of caregiving: Sources of help
- Overcoming resistance to exercise
- The new year: A season of hope
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