Hospice Quinte: Changing Lives Podcast

For most children and families, the holiday season is one that’s filled with joy, love and celebration. But after experiencing the loss of someone you love, holiday celebrations can become especially difficult. Different family members can, and typically do, grieve in different ways. That's why in this week's Changing Lives Podcast we're going to discuss how to support grieving chil...

Welcome to Heart to Heart with Hospice Quinte. Each episode we have important and worthwhile conversations about hospice palliative care and end of life issues. Your host, Jennifer May-Anderson, tackles the tough issues with tenderness and the difficult discussions with dignity.   This episode, Jennifer is joined by Julie Lange, Portfolio Manager and Director of Wealth Management, and Branch Manag...

Hospice care has been practiced for over 1,500 years. The creation of the “modern day” hospice is credited to Dame Cicely Saunders who, in England during the 1950’s, realized that managing pain at end of life was not enough. She recognized that there were psychological, social and spiritual aspects of the dying process that needed to be addressed as well. Be sure to check out this week's Chan...

Canada’s third National Bereavement Day will be celebrated by individuals across the country on November 19th, 2019. The Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association, the leading national voice for hospice palliative care in Canada, were the advocates behind the creation of National Bereavement Day. The CHPCA strongly believes that it is essential for Canadians to understand that grief and bereave...

Welcome to Heart to Heart with Hospice Quinte. Each episode we have important and worthwhile conversations about hospice palliative care and end of life issues. Your host, Jennifer May-Anderson, tackles the tough issues with tenderness and the difficult discussions with dignity.    This episode, Jennifer is joined by Anya-Deane Best, a partner at O'Flynn Weese, to talk about the importance of...

Created over ten years ago, by the Highmark Caring Place, and since recognized by organizations all over the world, Children's Grief Awareness Day is observed each year on the third Thursday in November. This year, Children’s Grief Awareness Day falls on Thursday, November 21st. The goal of Children's Grief Awareness Day is to bring attention to the fact that being openly supportive can...

November is National Hospice and Palliative Care Month. Throughout the month of November, Hospice Quinte will be proudly joining organizations from across the country, to reach out, and help communities better understand what hospice palliative care is, and all that it can offer. Listen now to learn more in this week's Changing Lives Podcast. About Hospice Quinte Hospice Quinte assists termin...

Welcome to Heart to Heart with Hospice Quinte. Each episode we have important and worthwhile conversations about hospice palliative care and end of life issues. Your host, Jennifer May-Anderson, tackles the tough issues with tenderness and the difficult discussions with dignity. This episode, Jennifer is joined by Ross McDougall, CEO of McDougall Insurance and Co-Chair of Hospice Quinte's Hea...

Losing a loved one is devastating, and unfortunately, grief offers us no timeline. Each step of the journey must be taken one day at a time. Early on in your grief journey, it might feel as though everything has completely stopped; thoughts of “growth” and “healing” from this significant loss seem inconceivable. But, as time passes, the days become a little bit easier to get through, you get a lit...

Welcome to Heart to Heart with Hospice Quinte. Each episode we have important and worthwhile conversations about hospice palliative care and end of life issues. Your host, Jennifer May-Anderson, tackles the tough issues with tenderness and the difficult discussions with dignity. This episode, Jennifer is joined by Sandie Sidsworth, Executive Director of the Belleville branch of the Canadian Mental...

World Hospice and Palliative Care Day is celebrated every year on the second Saturday in October, with the purpose of raising awareness and understanding of what is happening in the hospice and palliative care sector around the world. This year, World Hospice and Palliative Care Day celebrations will take place on October 12th, with the theme Palliative Care: it's "My Care, My Right.&quo...

Please note that some of the information in this podcast may be out of date. For the most up to date information on Hospice Quinte, please visit our website at HospiceQuinte.ca For over 10 years, Hospice Quinte has been planning to expand our services and address the need for a community-based Hospice Quinte Care Centre within our service area where we can provide a higher level of care. The need...

Memento mori is a Latin phrase meaning 'remember you must die', but, we’re only human. Nobody ever wants to think about dying or the death of someone they love, let alone have a conversation about it. Talking about death and dying is hard, because we've never really been taught to talk about death or how to appropriately bring up the subject. Learn more about how to start a conversa...

Welcome to Heart to Heart with Hospice Quinte. Each episode we have important and worthwhile conversations about hospice palliative care and end of life issues. Your host, Jennifer May-Anderson, tackles the tough issues with tenderness and the difficult discussions with dignity. In this episode, Jennifer is joined by Reverend Frank Hamper, of Eastminster United Church, to discuss spirituality. Abo...

Please note that some of the information in this podcast may be out of date. For the most up to date information on Hospice Quinte, please visit our website at HospiceQuinte.ca Volunteers are truly the lifeblood of Hospice Quinte. They are trained, compassionate, and dedicated as they help us to serve the residents of Quinte. The majority of Hospice Quinte volunteers are visiting volunteers, donat...

Supporting someone who has recently lost a loved one can bring up many questions. You might not know what to say, or when or how to talk to the individual about their loss and how they are doing. You don’t want to make things worse, but you don’t want to disappear or seem unavailable. So the question is, how do you support someone who has lost a loved one? Learn more in this week's Changing L...

Please note that some of the information in this podcast may be out of date. For the most up to date information on Hospice Quinte, please visit our website at HospiceQuinte.ca Welcome to Heart to Heart with Hospice Quinte.  Each episode we have important and worthwhile conversations about hospice palliative care and end of life issues.  Your host, Jennifer May-Anderson, tackles the tough issues w...

Please note that some of the information in this podcast may be out of date. For the most up to date information on Hospice Quinte, please visit our website at HospiceQuinte.ca Volunteers are necessary for running any not-for-profit organization, and Hospice Quinte is no exception. The majority of Hospice Quinte volunteers are visiting volunteers, donating their own time each week to spend with pa...

When you find out that a friend of yours is dying, you may go through a wide range of emotions, such as shock, anger, sadness and helplessness. Sometimes it's difficult to know what to say, or to ask questions like "what can I do to support you?". What is too much? And what is not nearly enough? Learn more about how you can help a friend who is facing their final days, and how you c...

Being a parent is rewarding, but also very challenging. When it happens for the first time, you realize that you are now responsible for much more than your own life and well-being. And whether you have one child or several, you are forever changed in that your main focus becomes a child who both needs you and depends on you. When someone close to you dies, it can make things more difficult and ev...

Welcome to Heart to Heart with Hospice Quinte.  Each episode we have important and worthwhile conversations about hospice palliative care and end of life issues.  Your host, Jennifer May-Anderson, tackles the tough issues with tenderness and the difficult discussions with dignity. This episode, Jennifer is joined by Warren Powell, Pre-Arrangement Director of Burke Funeral Home , to talk about the...

Please note that some of the information in this podcast may be out of date. For the most up to date information on Hospice Quinte, please visit our website at HospiceQuinte.ca After the loss of a loved one, it’s not unusual for an individual to experience a wide range of feelings and emotions. Grief is a completely natural response to loss. It’s the emotional suffering you feel when something or...

One of the questions people ask the most about losing a loved one is, “when does it get better or easier?”. The real answer is different for everyone, because no one grieves in exactly the same way, and there is no timeline for bereavement. Grief never ends, but it does go through changes. The first few weeks and months are filled with arrangements and notifications. You deal with shock and then v...

Death is often a difficult subject for adults to discuss, but it becomes even harder when we need to talk to children about it.  Often when there’s bad news to share, our first instinct is to protect children from the pain by withholding information. We might choose to use words that we think will make it easier for them to grasp, when in all reality we’re making it even harder for children to und...

Welcome to Heart to Heart with Hospice Quinte.  Each episode we have important and worthwhile conversations about hospice palliative care and end of life issues.  Your host, Jennifer May-Anderson, tackles the tough issues with tenderness and the difficult discussions with dignity. This episode, Jennifer is joined by Olga Nikolajev, a death educator, and the founder and director of DyingMatters.ca...