Hospice


Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying
The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments
Dying Well: Peace and Possibilities at the End of Life
Gone from My Sight: The Dying Experience
Final Journeys: A Practical Guide for Bringing Care and Comfort at the End of Life
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial
The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy (Harold Fry, #2)
On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families
How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter
We All Want Impossible Things
When Breath Becomes Air
The End of Your Life Book Club
Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat
Tina Samples
We know Job's faith survived because his reaction to his devastating loss was to worship God: "Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head, and he fell to the ground and worshiped. He said, 'Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord'" (Job 1:20-21). Let me encourage you and your messed up man, should he be willing, to begin to worship God from your place of brokenness. Tina shares a dra ...more
Tina Samples, Messed Up Men of the Bible

Caitlin Garvey
I stared at the hospice nurse's clipboard of notes, her purple scrubs, her file filled with Momma's health history, and I listened to the clicking of her pen and never looked her in the eye. She didn't belong in our home. She was just full of false information, cynical with age, and her pessimism about Momma's lifespan was making the house feel claustrophobic, like a coffin. She was closing the lid. ...more
Caitlin Garvey

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Artful Aging Aging well, creativity, compassion, caregiving, and flourishing at any age.
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Join us @ Hospice of the Bluegrass July 19 at noon as we read "Worth Fighting For: Love, Loss & …more
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Aging Parents Adult children who find themselves having to be their parents caregiver or advocate.
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