by ABD team | Mar 5, 2024 | Aging, Death / Funerals, Inspiration
To use the words of The Grateful Dead, “what a long, strange trip it’s been.” I started these Ski Sojourns five years ago. It was the retirement my husband had envisioned. Driving the desert Southwest, hiking red rocks and mountain trails, skiing to placate his wife,...
by ABD team | Jan 30, 2017 | Aging, Clothes, Dangerous, Death / Funerals, Family, Money, Style
You’ve always said you wouldn’t be caught dead in that hideous dress. You know the one—that floral, Pepto-Bismol pink monstrosity your cousin gave you for your birthday. Of course, you didn’t want to hurt her feelings. So instead of returning it to the store, you...
by ABD team | Dec 22, 2015 | Aging, Death / Funerals, Family, Holiday, Mothers/Daughters, Relationships
by Donna Mebane • December 1, 2015 • BA50 For years, I made my children listen to Bing Crosby as we decorated the Christmas tree. One day, I reasoned, I would be gone and I imagined them downloading ‘ole Bing and carrying on the tradition with their own children. When...
by ABD team | Aug 18, 2015 | Aging, Care Giving, Death / Funerals, Family, Health Care
By Stephanie O’Neill, Southern California Public Radio Dr. Kendra Fleagle Gorlitsky recalls the anguish she used to feel performing CPR on elderly, terminally ill patients. “I felt like I was beating up people at the end of their life,” she says. It...
by ABD team | Apr 16, 2015 | Aging, Care Giving, Death / Funerals, Family, Health Care, Legal
Tips on How to Begin Necessary Conversations with Loved Ones about Their End of Life Care Wishes By Dr. James Mittelberger April 16 is National Healthcare Decisions Day – A day set aside to encourage all of us to discuss important advance planning end of life health...
by ABD team | Jan 29, 2015 | Aging, Care Giving, Cool People, Death / Funerals, Family, Health Care, Life and Work, Mothers/Daughters, Relationships
Moments of Life: Made Possible by Hospice is showing the world that hospice is about more than care for the dying. Hospice and palliative care can make more meaningful moments possible, even when a person is facing a serious or even terminal illness. You may be...
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