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...
The world is remembering Jimmy Carter as a U.S. president, a Nobel Peace Prize and 5-time Grammy Award winner, and perhaps the best-known builder of Habitat for Humanity houses. He is also a great example of the value of hospice...
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...
A chaplain is one member of the IDG, or interdisciplinary group, that each patient is assigned when they first begin end-of-life care at Centrica Care Navigators.
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.
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.