by KathyKastner | Dec 14, 2014 | Blog, Information, Medical Decisions
An Automated External Defibrillator (AED) is not an Implantable Cardiac Device (ICD) You may have seen them in sports clubs, bars and public transit locations. Unlike an ICD (implantable cardioverter defibrillator), which have been known to keep a person alive even as...
by KathyKastner | Dec 14, 2014 | Featured
“They both died young, but they’d accepted death” Rodger Harding’s mom died of colon cancer, his father 3 years later of emphysema. “They both died young – 61 and 69 – but because they’d both accepted that they were dying, it took away the terror –...
by KathyKastner | Apr 5, 2014 | Blog
Long Term Care and Retirement Communities Conference Two of the themes of Together We Care, the conference on the future of Long Term Care and Retirement Communities: Passion in health, and passion for health. Keynote, Paul Alofs is the CEO of one of the top 5 Cancer...
by KathyKastner | Apr 5, 2014 | Blog, Inspiration
Long Term Care and Retirement Communities Conference: Together We Care Canadian Astronaut, Commander Chris Hadfield, showed his chops as a stand-up comedian at the Together We Care: Long Term Care and Retirement Communities Conference. “There is no bad situation that...
by KathyKastner | Mar 26, 2014 | Blog, Inspiration, Personal Decisions
Guest blogger, Zal Press, created Patient Commando to give patients’ stories a ‘voice’. Pictured here in his ‘teach about Crohn’s’ lab coat, he shares his thoughts on ont of Best Endings topics: Who’s important to you? Who’s...
by KathyKastner | Feb 17, 2014 | Blog, Information, Medical Decisions
Dying, death and the evasive language we use Euphemisms for dying and death abound. But what about the words used when telling someone – anyone – that death is near (‘near’ being a relative term). You’re dying may be the hardest words – right up there with ‘I’m sorry’...
