Palliative Care

 

Top level Community Health Services Palliative Care
Palliative Care provides special care to those living with a progressive, life shortening illness. It aims to support these people to have the best quality of life they can by relieving the discomfort and addressing the various issues caused by such an illness. These issues may be physical, psychological, emotional, social and/or spiritual.
( 10 January 2008 1:38pm )
Tom Golden, author and psychotherapist says:

I like to think of them (grief and depression) as being very different processes. Grief is our unique and natural response to loss, while depression is many times a web of negative self-thoughts....
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( 10 January 2008 1:36pm )
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Click on the link below for suggestions of the kind of things you can do in times of grief to be kind to yourself... being your own best friend...
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