Healthy Meals When Stress Strikes

Healthy Meals When Stress Strikes – CarePages.com: When stress seems to have taken over your life, healthy meals and snacks are better for body and mind than that sugary brownie. Find out how good food can help you cope.

Caregiving and Medical Emergencies

Caregiving and Medical Emergencies - CarePages.com: Caregiving for someone who is seriously or chronically ill is a daunting task, and an emergency can be frightening. Taking steps in advance will help you handle a crisis, should one occur.

Relieving stress: Nice ways to say NO

Nice ways to say NO: Saying yes when you really want to say no doesn’t do anyone a service. You can’t please everyone, so instead of reluctantly giving in, try forming two magic letters that can free you from potential resentment and burnout. Here’s how to say the right thing in common situations, as well as general guidelines to follow.

Discussing Faith When Your Loved One Is Ill

Discussing Faith When Your Loved One Is Ill - CarePages.com: Discussing religion or spirituality with someone who is seriously ill can be tricky. First make sure they're open to the topic.

Discussion forum: Dealing with Mood Swings

Dealing with Mood Swings - Cancer – CarePages Discussion Forums: I’m currently caring for my gal, who has leukemia. One of the toughest issues for me is the continuous mood swings. Going from OK to depressed, by the blink of an eye, is difficult to get used to. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to cope?

Discussion forum: "My mom is dying"

My mom is dying - Emotional Health – CarePages Discussion Forums: I am 21 and my mom is dying. Her condition is only getting worse. I know she will die- most likely within the next year or so. And I just don’t feel ready for it.

My Birthday Wish

My Birthday Wish - What Helps. What Hurts. What Heals. - CarePages: It’s my birthday tomorrow, my first ever without Dad. Knowing how difficult birthdays and anniversaries can be, especially when sorrow surprises and overwhelms like a sneaker wave, I decided to practice what I preach and prepare myself emotionally and practically for the day. As ready as I think I may be, I feel in my gut that I’m not ready at all.

Get to Know: I Am Music for Life

“I Am Music For Life” is a radio program that plays exclusively pro-life music. Peter Jorgensen writes: "It is my mission to have music that is; pro-life, pro-family, pro-adoption and pro-support of single parents as an alternative to abortion, played for as many listeners as possible. I started I Am Music for life in March of 1991, and it’s played on Saturday evenings at 9 through a Christian radio station in Cohoes, NY (WHAZ 97.4 FM). 

"The current airing of the programs costs $100/ month. I’m asking for your support in this endeavor, and as support is received, I will have the program played in more and more areas throughout this wonderful God-fearing country of ours."

November issue of Caring Right at Home

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Indoor and Outdoor Falls: Are the Risks the Same?

November is National Hospice Month

Hospice Care for the Unborn/Newborn

Hospice Care for the Unborn/Newborn: Perinatal hospice, a relatively new concept of care, is now being offered as a viable option for parents who choose to carry their baby to term. This care incorporates grief support and education from the time of diagnosis, throughout the pregnancy, and then through the bereavement period. Perinatal hospice involves a team approach of physicians, nurses, social workers, and bereavement counselors — everyone working together helping to ease the emotional suffering while preserving the dignity and integrity of the family as they make meaningful plans to honor the life of their baby.

Assisted Suicide - how the chattering classes have got it wrong

New Report: Assisted Suicide - how the chattering classes have got it wrong: Euthanasia supporters among the chattering classes have nothing to fear from a change in the law: articulate, determined and well-connected, they are unlikely to be bullied into an early death by greedy or uncaring relatives or bureaucrats. But millions of others are less fortunate.

It Takes a Long Time to Starve a Severely Disabled Infant to Death by Withdrawing Medically-Supplied Nutrition

It Takes a Long Time to Starve a Severely Disabled Infant to Death by Withdrawing Medically-Supplied Nutrition � Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog: A disturbing study has come out about how long it takes to starve an infant to death. From the study:

Neonatal survival after withdrawal of artificial hydration and nutrition can last up to 26 days. . . . Although physical distress is not apparent in the infants, the psychological distress of parents and clinicians builds with the length of survival. These babies live much, much longer than anybody expects. I think that neonatologists and nurses and palliative care clinicians need to be alerted to this. The time between withdrawal of feeding and end of life is something that is not predictable, and you need to be cautioned very strongly about that if you are going to do this work.

These infants did not die from their underlying conditions. The study further wants infants being dehydrated to become research subjects on the physiological processes of being starved.

Editor: Dr. Mengele would be proud.

What’s the Worst That Could Happen With The New Health Law?

What’s the Worst That Could Happen With The New Health Law? | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is one of the largest and most complicated overhauls ever enacted. Policy experts continue to debate the impact it will have. Among the issues that has raised concerns is its cost.

Canada's socialist public health care at crossroads

Canada's socialist public health care at crossroads: Just as the United States is rethinking the way it handles health care, Canada is re-examining over the next four years how to maintain the system that provides medical treatment for all regardless of income. The country wants to reformulate the network in an effort to cut back on wait times and medical tourism. In 2014, the nation is set to write a new health 'accord,' and further address Canadian health-care shortcomings. Privatization is inching its way into the system.

Report: Weakest at risk if assisted suicide is legalized

Report: Weakest at risk if assisted suicide is legalised | News | The Christian Institute: The Centre for Policy Studies cautioned that such a change could lead some of society’s most defenceless members to feel that they have an obligation to end their lives. The report cautions: "As assisted suicide becomes embedded in our culture, investing resources in caring for these vulnerable groups will be seen as a waste: they’ll be gone."

'Watchman' Saves Hundreds from Suicide with Kindness and a Smile

Cliff 'Watchman' Saves Hundreds from Suicide with Kindness and a Smile: They call Don Ritchie 'the watchman.' Each day he sits in his favorite chair at his cliffside home and scans the precipice, trying to discern the intentions of visitors. Approximately 50 people end their lives there each year, leaping from the brink. When somebody seems to be lingering too long at the cliff, he walks out to talk to him.

'You can't just sit there and watch them,' Ritchie said in a recent interview. 'You gotta try and save them. It's pretty simple.' Now 84 years of age and struggling with cancer, Ritchie doesn't have the energy to grab people and pull them back from the brink of death, as he once did. But he says that he will always be there to talk to those who might be thinking of ending their lives. He and his wife invite them in for tea.

The retired salesman now "sells" life. He doesn't pry or preach, but rather smiles and listens. It's a technique that often works, though not always.

LIFT Caregiver Conference cancelled

Due to low registration numbers we've had to make the tough call and cancel this even to have taken place on Saturday, October 23. We're very sorry to those who were looking forward to it. We know that we had a great day planned, but it was not to be.

The LIFT Care Coordinator Training Seminar for Friday, October 22, is still on. People who were registered for the Saturday conference may attend the Friday training seminar by just transferring their registration (at no extra cost). Give our office a call -- (616) 257-6800, 1-800-968-6086 -- or email Sharlene to put this in motion.

Euthanasia is 'killing,' McGill ethicist tells Quebec hearings

Euthanasia is 'killing,' McGill ethicist tells Quebec hearings: When religious values were more important in Quebec, it was easier to make the case against euthanasia, McGill University ethicist Margaret Somerville said Thursday before provincial hearings in Montreal. 'Thou shalt not kill' was pretty much the end of the debate, Somerville said.

Now in a largely secular society, euthanasia and assisted suicide remain 'morally wrong,' Somerville maintains. She prefers the term 'killing,' as she considers euthanasia and assisted suicide to be euphemisms. 'Even in a secular society, it's morally wrong to kill each other,' she said. '(Morality) is even more important in a secular society because you haven't got religion as that foundation to fall back on.'

Stumbo Family Story: Down Syndrome Awareness

Stumbo Family Story: Down Syndrome Awareness: Going to College: "This is where I try to honestly share about life; about being a wife and being a mom. Sometimes I dream out loud, and reflect on the lessons of life. You will notice that much of our blog is devoted to Down syndrome, Adoption, and Special Needs. Our youngest daughter was diagnosed with Trisomy 21 at birth. I know how hard it is to deal with a new diagnosis; there is fear in the unknown, questioning, and too many tears. There seems to be little hope.

"However, as I have come out of the 'swamp' I have discovered a beautiful road to travel. Having a child with Down syndrome is not what I thought it would be. Her life is so rich, definitely worth celebrating.. Her life has great value and meaning. Her life is beautiful! We have embarked in the most life altering journey of our lives. We would not trade it for anything in the world! She lead us in the path of adoption, and we now have a beautiful daughter with Cerebral Palsy that wants to someday dance!"

Only half of Belgian euthanasia cases reported

Reporting of euthanasia in medical practice in Flanders, Belgium: cross sectional analysis of reported and unreported cases -- Smets et al. 341 -- bmj.com What the authors found is that in 2007 in Flanders, the Dutch speaking part of Belgium, only 52.8% cases of euthanasia were reported to the authorities. Why is the rate so low? It appears that about 77% physicians who did not report cases of euthanasia did not perceive their act as euthanasia, as defined by Belgium's law. But there were other reasons as well. About 18% said that reporting involves too much paperwork; about 12% feared that not all of the legal requirements had been met; 9% thought that euthanasia is a private matter between physician and patient.

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Euthanasia workshops test legal boundaries

Euthanasia workshops test legal boundaries: An Australian right-to-die doctor will on Wednesday morning advise aging Torontonians on the “best drugs” and techniques to commit suicide so they can craft a reliable and peaceful “exit plan.”

Great moments in socialized medicine

Greek Health System Opts for Amputation as Money-Saver | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment: This Saturday, one of Greece’s most respected newspapers, To Vima, reported that the nation’s largest government health insurance provider would no longer pay for special footwear for diabetes patients. Amputation is cheaper, says the Benefits Division of the state insurance provider.

The Grayest Generation

The Grayest Generation - An FP Photo Essay | Foreign Policy: Forget about a youth boom -- the planet's population is getting older, fast. From the West Bank to Woodstock, a look at a world going gray.

'I secretly helped my dad die,' Michael Caine reveals

'I secretly helped my dad die,' Michael Caine reveals | News.com.au: Veteran British actor Sir Michael Caine has revealed that he asked a doctor to help his gravely ill father die. The doctor gave his father, Maurice Micklewhite, an overdose to end his suffering when he was dying in hospital from liver cancer - a secret the star never revealed to his mother. Caine, who has won two Oscars, has expressed his support for mercy killings. In a UK radio interview, the actor, 77, said he asked a doctor to help end his father's suffering in 1955.

Why Do Black Patients Get Unwanted End-of-Life Care?

Why Do Black Patients Get Unwanted End-of-Life Care? – TIME Healthland: Researchers found that black and white patients tended to have end-of-life discussions with their doctors with equal frequency, yet black patients were less likely than whites to understand that their disease was terminal. Black patients also tended to ask for burdensome life-prolonging care more often than whites, and were less likely to have do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders following discussions with caregivers. What's more, black patients with DNR orders were just as likely as black patients without DNR orders to receive life-prolonging end-of-life care.

Editor: Maybe it's what THEY want, not what YOU want.

Special Needs Students Elected Homecoming King and Queen

Special Needs Students Elected Homecoming King and Queen - ABC News: Across the country, a growing and heartwarming trend is putting crowns on some very special students. Several high schools have awarded their homecoming king and queen titles to special needs students this fall.

UK advice columnist claims it’s OK to smother children

Video: agony aunt claims it’s OK to smother children | News | The Christian Institute: Virginia Ironside horrified viewers by saying that she would be willing to smother a sick child and by describing abortion as a “moral”, “unselfish” act of a loving mother.

Adult Stem Cells: Quietly Treating MS for Years!

Pro-Life News: Adult Stem Cells, Bart Stupak, Pro-Life Day, Abby Johnson, Rome: Adult stem cell success treating patients has been noted as “the best-kept secret in the galaxy” by Dr. Jean Peduzzi Nelson of Wayne State University. In her recent Senate testimony she described the case of Barry Goudy, who had relapsing-remitting MS. Barry had numerous relapses and medication was not helping his condition.

He was treated as part of a study conducted at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago and received his own adult stem cells in 2003. His MS symptoms disappeared in 4 months, and he continues to be symptom free today.

No such Thing as “Safe” Euthanasia

Australian PM Right: Belgium Proves No Way to Create a “Safe” Euthanasia System � Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog: Julia Gillard has stated that she doesn’t see a way to create a euthanasia legalization system with safeguards that really protect.

Vegetative state patients may soon be able to communicate

Vegetative state patients may soon be able to communicate: Researchers from Cambridge University in the UK have been able to communicate with brain-injured patients in 'locked states' commonly referred to as persistent vegetative states (PVS). They predict such patients will soon be able to communicate and perhaps even move themselves around in motorized wheelchairs.

Editor: Maybe we can stop calling them 'vegetative.' 'Locked' is so much nicer.

Movie Review - 'Robert Jay Lifton - Nazi Doctors'

Movie Review - 'Robert Jay Lifton - Nazi Doctors' - Film Forum Documentary on Holocaust Doctors - NYTimes.com: In 1986 Dr. Lifton wrote a well-regarded book called The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide, which explored the twisted logic by which doctors were able to rationalize their participation in the Holocaust. Dr. Lifton, now in his 80s, can be interesting, as when he talks about the obfuscations he encountered when interviewing some doctors.

“You can’t get the full truth of evil from the perpetrators,” he notes; you can’t even get an accurate sense of the emotional impact the wretched work had on the doctors themselves. He also shares some stunning anecdotes, like the time one physician told him that the act of killing a child with sedatives “didn’t seem so much a killing as a putting to sleep.”

Mentally handicapped Danes lobotomised until 1983

AFP: Mentally handicapped Danes lobotomised until 1983: historian: Many mentally handicapped Danes, including children, were lobotomised between 1947 and 1983, and many died from the operation, a historian behind a soon-to-be-published book on the topic told Danish media Thursday. 'The results of such operations generally were not good, and some 7.6 percent did not survive. What happened with people with mental handicaps is worse than what happened with psychiatric patients,' he said, referring to many operations performed on children as young as six years of age, even though their brains were not yet completely developed.

Related: Bulgarian mistreatment of disabled revealed

Ignore wishes of dead if their organs are needed

One of Britain's leading bioethicists has endorsed compulsory deceased organ donation. Writing in the Journal of Medical Ethics, John Harris, of the University of Manchester, and Antonia Cronin, of Kings College London, argue that today's organ shortage is so severe that it trumps autonomy over the posthumous use of one's body.

Compassion within a yard of hell

ABWE | Association of Baptists for World Evangelism: A man looked up at Kyle and Heather Farran, questioning, “Are you here to bring us the truth?” The hospice nurse leaned in, explaining what he meant. “Patients are seeing through the lies of the witch doctors and the prosperity gospel that promises healing from AIDS,” she told the couple. They’ve seen that, despite many promises, people still die. It was just as the Farrans had thought. The need for the gospel here was urgent.

Dementia is health crisis of the century

BBC News - World News America - Dementia is health crisis of the century: The global cost of dementia will exceed $600 billion in 2009 alone, according to a new report. But it is not just the economic toll which is reason for alarm. In just two decades, the number of people suffering from dementia across the globe could double and experts warn it will be the most significant health crisis of the 21st century.