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Mar 24, 2020

Celebrating Child Life Specialist Month: A Special Q&A on Caring For Children Facing Serious Illness

As a part of our interview series with industry leaders, End Well spoke with Child Life Specialist, Michelle Hug. — Michelle Hug is a certified Child Life Specialist with over 15 years of experience helping children and families cope with serious illness and the end of life. She is the child development expert on the medical team and finds ways to translate medical information to children and families. Michelle helps…

Palliative Care

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Celebrating Child Life Specialist Month: A Special Q&A on Caring For Children Facing Serious…
Celebrating Child Life Specialist Month: A Special Q&A on Caring For Children Facing Serious…

Jan 15, 2020

Best 9 Hospice and End of Life Articles of 2019

A round-up of some of the year’s most thought-provoking and inspiring pieces on the end-of-life experience. — The relevance of the proverbial five stages of grief was challenged, and new aspects of our relationship with grief were explored. Research on dying furthered our understanding of consciousness and connection at the end of life. …

Death

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Best 9 Hospice and End of Life Articles of 2019
Best 9 Hospice and End of Life Articles of 2019

Nov 20, 2019

You’re Invited! End Well Lunchtime Community Meet-Ups

Please join your fellow attendees to converse, connect and conspire during our lunchtime Community Meet-ups at End Well 2019. — Please join your fellow attendees to converse, connect and conspire during our lunchtime Community Meet-ups at End Well 2019. Organized by color for attendees around the five pillars of End Well’s work, these informal gatherings will be spread throughout the venue and beyond offering attendees and speakers the opportunity to…

Conference

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You’re Invited! End Well Lunchtime Community Meet-Ups
You’re Invited! End Well Lunchtime Community Meet-Ups

Oct 31, 2019

Let’s Talk About Death, Baby

Planning and preparing for death now helps us make the most of the time we have with loved one when illness befalls them. — By Lisa O’Leary, End Well eCaregiver When my husband Patrick was diagnosed with glioblastoma brain cancer in 2014, I had never watched someone die. I did not know what it looked like, what it sounded like, or what the progression would be. After his diagnosis, I was so focused on…

Cancer

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Let’s Talk About Death, Baby
Let’s Talk About Death, Baby

Oct 25, 2019

End Well Industry Leader Q&A on the value of exploring death while celebrating life with Reimagine Founders

As a part of our interview series with industry leaders, End Well spoke with Reimagine founder’s Brad Wolfe and Dr. Jeannie Blaustein — As a part of our interview series with industry leaders, End Well spoke with Reimagine founder’s Brad Wolfe and Dr. Jeannie Blaustein Before becoming a nonprofit, Reimagine was initially inspired by OpenIDEO’s End of Life Challenge and was led by Brad as part of an OpenIDEO project exploring art and…

Death

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End Well Industry Leader Q&A on the value of exploring death while celebrating life with Reimagine…
End Well Industry Leader Q&A on the value of exploring death while celebrating life with Reimagine…

Oct 24, 2019

My Day on the Pediatric Palliative Care Ward

By Jeremy Pivor, End Well ePatient — By Jeremy Pivor, End Well ePatient Last March, I walked into the hospital not as a patient but as a medical student. It was my first clinical experience since I was diagnosed with a third occurrence of my brain tumor a year earlier. …

Cancer

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Everyone Deserves Palliative Care Support — Not Just Patients
Everyone Deserves Palliative Care Support — Not Just Patients

Oct 21, 2019

One Family, One Chance: Reframing My Life as a Millennial Caregiver

By Aisha Adkins, End Well eCaregiver — By Aisha Adkins, End Well eCaregiver As I write this essay, sweat drips from my brow — literally. I am currently sitting on the ravine-facing balcony of my family’s rented condo in Atlanta, Georgia. Eryn Allen Kane’s gripping vocal melodies ooze through my earbuds. The temperature is 96*, with a…

Caregiving

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One Family, One Chance: Reframing My Life as a Millennial Caregiver
One Family, One Chance: Reframing My Life as a Millennial Caregiver

Oct 17, 2019

Counting Up: Measuring What it Means to Grow Closer to Death

By Leilani Graham, End Well ePatient — By Leilani Graham, End Well ePatient I was fortunate enough to attend a recent discussion hosted by End Well Founder Shoshana Ungerleider, MD for Shoshana Berger and BJ Miller, MD’s new book “A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death.” I watched the attendees…

Death

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Counting Up: Measuring What it Means to Grow Closer to Death
Counting Up: Measuring What it Means to Grow Closer to Death

Oct 7, 2019

Dying a Good Death: My Father’s Non-Linear Journey

By Ilana Shapiro Yahdav, MPA, ACGRS; End Well eCaregiver — By Ilana Shapiro Yahdav, MPA, ACGRS; End Well eCaregiver “Time is non-linear. I’ll always be with you.” My dad repeated many times to my mother, brothers and me, when he learned that he had terminal cancer and approximately six months to live. Glioblastoma Multiforme. Those two words still make me…

Death

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Dying a Good Death: My Father’s Non-Linear Journey
Dying a Good Death: My Father’s Non-Linear Journey

Sep 26, 2019

Lessons For the Living From the Dying

From every loss in Amanda Carr’s life has come a deeper understanding of the dying experience and a greater appreciation for life. — By Amanda L. Carr, End Well eCaregiver Death and grief are often viewed in a negative light. We cope with them from a reactionary place, and they are subjects that we prefer to deflect, defer, and avoid whenever possible. Death and grief are profound teachers, however; they are inspirations for…

Death

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Lessons for the Living from the Dying
Lessons for the Living from the Dying
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