When one receives a life-limiting diagnosis, it can send an individual and their families into a tailspin of emotions including shock, pain, stress, fear, anger, confusion, isolation, denial and grief. It is critical that those who are facing death as well as their loved ones have somewhere to turn for help. The unfortunate truth, right…
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Hana’s Story One of Hana’s first caregiving memories is attending medical appointments at the age of 9 to translate between English and Arabic for her father who lost his legs to diabetes when she was 3. Now 20, Hana does the same for her mother who had a heart attack. Along with translation, Hana also…
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A compassionate city is a community that recognizes that all natural cycles of sickness and health, birth and death, and love and loss occur every day within the orbits of its institutions and regular activities. Its residents recognize that care for one another at times of crisis and loss is not simply a task solely…
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