Cooley Dickinson VNA & Hospice

Join Shelly Bathe Lenn, Bereavement Coordinator, for a virtual Expressive Arts group that meets monthly on the last Tuesday from 5-6:30 pm. Make a small collage about your grief. Prompts provided. For more information email Shelly at slenn@mgb.org.

Fall cleaning? Consider donating to The Hospice Shop of Northampton! Every donation and purchase made through the Hospice Shop plays a crucial role in advancing the mission of Cooley Dickinson Hospice, which is dedicated to providing compassionate end-of-life care for individuals with terminal illnesses. By supporting the hospice program through the shop, individuals can directly contribute to ensuring that essential care reaches those in need. Visit our website to learn more - https://lnkd.in/eBuXpCNF

Join our team of skilled and compassionate professionals! We are growing and looking for homecare RNs, Medical Social Workers, Physical Therapists, and LPNs. If you are interested in joining our team of professionals providing home health care in Hampshire County and areas of Berkshire, Franklin, and Hampden Counties, we would be interested in speaking with you! https://lnkd.in/eQweHE2Z

Join us in September for our Strength in Numbers: Fall Preventions Program. This is a free educational series we offer to adults 65 and older. Unintentional falls threaten the independence and health of adults 65 and older. Every 18 seconds, an older adult is treated in the emergency department for a fall. During this series, VNA physical and occupational therapists will determine the risks of falling, do strengthening exercises, balance activities, manage medications and visual concerns, and offer home safety recommendations. Practical items such as strengthening devices, medication organizers, and visual aids will be distributed to series participants. These sessions will be Mondays, 1 - 2 pm, beginning September 9 through to October 21 (skipping October 14) To learn more or to register, please get in touch with the Easthampton Council on Aging & Enrichment Center at 413-527-6151 Thanks to grants from Eversource Energy Foundation and the Roy Foundation, this educational series is free to participants.

Join us in September for our Strength in Numbers: Fall Preventions Program. This is a free educational series we offer to adults 65 and older. Unintentional falls threaten the independence and health of adults 65 and older. Every 18 seconds, an older adult is treated in the emergency department for a fall. During this series, VNA physical and occupational therapists will determine the risks of falling, do strengthening exercises, balance activities, manage medications and visual concerns, and offer home safety recommendations. Practical items such as strengthening devices, medication organizers, and visual aids will be distributed to series participants. These sessions will be Mondays, 1 - 2 pm, beginning September 9 through to October 21 (skipping October 14) To learn more or to register, please get in touch with the Easthampton Council on Aging & Enrichment Center at 413-527-6151 Thanks to grants from Eversource Energy Foundation and the Roy Foundation, this educational series is free to participants.

Join Shelly Bathe Lenn for a virtual Expressive Arts group, which meets monthly on the last Tuesday from 5-6:30 pm. Make a small collage about your grief. Prompts provided. For more information email Shelly at slenn@mgb.org or visit our webpage - https://lnkd.in/ebj6x88k

Join us in September for our Strength in Numbers: Fall Preventions Program. This is a free educational series we offer to adults 65 and older. Unintentional falls threaten the independence and health of adults 65 and older. Every 18 seconds, an older adult is treated in the emergency department for a fall. During this series, VNA physical and occupational therapists will determine the risks of falling, do strengthening exercises, balance activities, manage medications and visual concerns, and offer home safety recommendations. Practical items such as strengthening devices, medication organizers, and visual aids will be distributed to series participants. These sessions will be Mondays, 1 - 2 pm, beginning September 9 through to October 21 (skipping October 14) To learn more or to register, please get in touch with the Easthampton Council on Aging & Enrichment Center at 413-527-6151 Thanks to grants from Eversource Energy Foundation and the Roy Foundation, this educational series is free to participants.

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The Garden: A Center for Grieving Children and Teens offers many suggestions for books that grieving young people may like as they are struggling through grief and loss. Always Sisters by Sair Mir tells the story of a family's miscarriage. The story shows how the older sister, Raya, is looking forward to being a big sister to Nura. She draws pictures for Nura and dreams of all the things she wants to do with her little sister. Everything changes when the mom has a miscarriage. Together the family supports each other and their range of emotions. We would have appreciated it if the author chose to use the word "dead" instead of "lost" when talking about what happened to Nura. Choosing to use dead, death, dying, and not euphemisms with young children can help them better understand what happened. For example, when explaining miscarriage to a young child one could say, "We don't know why but something happened to the baby and it died. When it happens during pregnancy it is called miscarriage." Here's a video of the author reading it: https://lnkd.in/e6-9jA5R Here's a link to the book on Goodreads: https://lnkd.in/e57BcMM9

Join us in September for our Strength in Numbers: Fall Preventions Program. This is a free educational series we offer to adults 65 and older. Unintentional falls threaten the independence and health of adults 65 and older. Every 18 seconds, an older adult is treated in the emergency department for a fall. During this series, VNA physical and occupational therapists will determine the risks of falling, do strengthening exercises, balance activities, manage medications and visual concerns, and offer home safety recommendations. Practical items such as strengthening devices, medication organizers, and visual aids will be distributed to series participants. These sessions will be Mondays, 1 - 2 pm, beginning September 9 through to October 21 (skipping October 14) To learn more or to register, please get in touch with the Easthampton Council on Aging & Enrichment Center at 413-527-6151 Thanks to grants from Eversource Energy Foundation and the Roy Foundation, this educational series is free to participants.