by KathyKastner | Aug 9, 2015 | Blog, Inspiration, Personal Stories
Dealing with grief and End of Life as a Personal Support Worker Guest Post by Natrice Rese It’s something that you are prepared for as a student. It is understood that as a caregiver, a PSW, you will maintain a distance, a separation, a formal kind of...
by KathyKastner | Aug 8, 2015 | Blog, Information
Staying Alive: what more of us want to do “The share of the public that says doctors and nurses should do everything possible to save a patient’s life has gone up 9 percentage points since 2005 and 16 points since 1990. From Pew Research Center forum “Views on End...
by KathyKastner | Aug 1, 2015 | Blog, Information, Medical Decisions
Donna Renzetti (left, standing) Vice President, Corporate Services and Chief Financial Officer at West Park Healthcare Centre came in on a Saturday to make sure there were plenty of chairs at the ready for the Trillium Gift of Life Network (TGLN) presentation on organ...
by KathyKastner | Jul 25, 2015 | Blog, Inspiration, Kathy Kastner
With Mary Ito, host of FreshAir: celebrating after our interview on CBC Radio about what this ‘layman’ brings to conversations about end of life Click to listen: 11 minutes...
by KathyKastner | Jul 22, 2015 | Blog, Inspiration, Personal Decisions
I’m noticing new approaches to obituaries Defying a history of somber and factual, I’m seeing welcomed injections of humour – including obits written by the deceased. Before, of course. This means leaving blanks as you can see from above picture....
