End of Life Care

Someone once said to me that ‘silence makes room for whatever needs to happen.’ I didn’t quite understand what that really meant until I experienced

We are all on the journey to reaching the end of our life as we know it, and for some of us it will happen suddenly

As I walked towards the front door of my house, I could feel the warmth of the sun on my back and the cold sting

One of the sad realities of having dementia is the loss of relationships. I remember with my own Father’s dementia the friends slowly began to

I’ve learned that when you are not given effective comfort care, you’re in pain and struggle to breathe. I’ve learned that when there’s no thought

How do we die? why me? why now? I am frightened of dying, I am angry, how will my family cope without me? I want

We use the words ‘dying’ or ‘terminal’ to describe when a person is in the last few days or hours of life. Sometimes a death

3rd October 2022, my father had a heart attack. I was there to witness it. Less than two hours later, my Mum and I sat