What to Say when Someone is Dying
What do you say when someone is dying? How do you talk to the person who is dying? How do you discuss the topic with their family and friends? How do you know the “right” thing to say that will...
Category: Caregivers
How your care team helps: Talking with a social worker
“A lot of people are sick and tired of feeling sick and tired, social workers come alongside them to acknowledge feelings and support them.”
Caregiving for Yourself and the Ones You Love
A lot of what the Centrica Care Navigators team does is to support not just the patient directly, but the patient’s family too.
Living a quality life with COPD
Many adults have been diagnosed with COPD — more than 600,000 people in Michigan (about 7.5% of the adult population). We see a lot of COPD patients in our end-of-life care service at Centrica Care Navigators; it’s one of the...
How your care team helps: A compassionate presence at Centrica Rose Arbor Place
Centrica Rose Arbor Place is a dedicated care site for patients in hospice, providing a supportive environment where patients receive personalized care from a compassionate team.
How your care team helps: Nurse practitioners take time with every patient
A nurse practitioner (NP), like the ones at Centrica Care Navigators, visits patients wherever they live. That’s often at their home, or in a care facility like our own Centrica Rose Arbor Place.
Six Things We Would Like You to Know About Grief
As you are grieving, our Centrica Care Navigators Grief Support Counselors want you to know a few things.
Patience and caring: The benefits of pet therapy
Even people who don’t love dogs are glad to know pet therapy is available to Centrica Care Navigators patients who need a special kind of companionship.
Remembering a loved one on the golf course
Chris Simmons was a 2018 patient with Centrica Care Navigators. Years after his death, Kellie has still not forgotten the service he and their family received from our nurses, hospice aides, and his entire care team.
Introducing your hospice care team
When a patient begins service with Centrica Care Navigators, they’re connected with an interdisciplinary group (IDG), the team of specialists who take care of them throughout their time in end-of-life care.
