Beautiful Voice editor's note: This article was originally published one year ago - May 28, 2020 - prior to the availability of vaccines. The author, Barbara Pesut, PhD, is a nursing professor in British Columbia, Canada. A retrospective review of the article provides the reader with insights about dying alone [...]
Professor Davina Porock, PhD, holds a Professorial Research Fellowship in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Edith Cowan University in Western Australia. Her research program focus is living and dying well in residential aged care with a particular interest in person-centred practice. Her article focuses on a culture of [...]
“. . . people should have the death conversation, to talk about their hopes for what they will experience at the end of life. You aren’t going to achieve what you want unless you articulate it to people who can help you sort it out. . . . If we [...]
One of my mantras in the early days of our move to the ranch was, “It’s about dignity.” Those early days were fresh and fragile as I was very conscious of the milieu being created in our new intergenerational living experience. We had relocated in search of an environment [...]
In 2003, we were many miles apart but still in touch – two decades after being colleagues in a Chicago-area hospital. Stephanie Mayercik, my “wise sage” during our employment years, possessed finely-tuned listening skills, common sense and abundant practical wisdom, a quick wit and sense of humor, and buoyant and [...]