Decision Making and Capacity Assessment
In keeping with our theme of caregiving, decision-making, and guardianship, at the latest Death Literacy YEG Meetup we discussed in more detail what the spectrum of capacity looks like, and…
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Caregiving, Guardianship, and Levels of Decision Making
In the last post we talked about caring for caregivers. We discussed how to use change management strategies to find control through difficult changes. We reviewed the three key components…
Caring For The Caregivers
I recently facilitated a Death Literacy session focused on caregiver support. How to support the aging and ill is something I get asked about a lot, as people are never…
Suicide Sucks
I just lost a friend to suicide, and it totally sucks. The thing is, I knew they were struggling with depression. We’d spoken about it on several occasions. But we…
Death Cafe: Curiouser and Curiouser
With a new batch of curious Café-ers due to recent newspaper and radio coverage, we kicked off the May 15th Death Café meeting with a round table of introductions and…
Death Cafe: A bunch of Brainiacs
At last night’s (April 24, 2019) Death Café, our topics for discussion tended on the cerebral side. The group opened the discussion by referencing an April 17, 2019 National Post…