Camp Carousel promotes healthy mourning through creativity and fun!

Camp Carousel 2011 will be held Monday, July 25 – Friday, July 29.

Learn how to cope with a death-related loss. Camp Carousel is designed to meet the unique needs of grieving children (ages 6-12), teens, and adults. For more information or for a registration form please see the Grief Counseling section of our web site or call 336-768-3972!

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The Promise Partnership
A thoughtful and ongoing COMMITMENT to provide HOPE. For $30 a month, $360 a year, Promise Partners gain real ownership – ensuring that we will be here in the future to help anyone in our community who needs the compassionate end-of-life support.

By United Way Designation
You can choose to designate a specific charity to receive your United Way pledge dollars. Hospice & Palliative CareCenter is listed on the United Way pledge form as a choice for your designation.

By Company Matching Gifts
Many companies match charitable donations made by their employees. Your Human Resources Department should be able to provide you with the necessary forms. Please be sure to find out if this is true at your place of employment and send us the matching gift form to increase the impact of your gift.

Through Special Events
Hospice & Palliative CareCenter hosts several fundraising events each year. Click here for more information on ways to support Hospice & Palliative CareCenter.

Through Your Will and Other Planned Gifts
Your will is the cornerstone of your estate planning efforts – your most important legal document. Many of our supporters choose to name Hospice & Palliative CareCenter in their will. Bequests take many forms and require special language. For information on Bequests, Estate, Deferred, Planned Gifts or more. Click here for more information.

Gifts of Stock or Other Property
Many donors find it convenient and beneficial to make gifts of appreciated securities. You can also make gifts of other property such as real estate, life insurance, or retirement accounts. Please call us at 336-768-3972 to discuss your gift of property.

Instructions for Donation of Securities
Please call us at 336-768-3972 to discuss your donation of securities

Memorial or Honorary Gifts

Memorial gifts honor the memory of someone who touched your life in a special way. Many families name Hospice & Palliative CareCenter in obituaries or funeral notices as the preferred beneficiary of memorial gifts. Sample language is as follows:

The family requests that memorial gifts be made to Hospice & Palliative CareCenter, 101 Hospice Lane, Winston-Salem, NC 27103.

Another way to remember your loved ones is to purchase a plaque with your loved one’s name which will be permanently installed on the Remembrance Wall at the Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home on the Winston-Salem campus.

Honorariums provide a way to express appreciation for a living person. The person honored will receive acknowledgement of your gift. Honorary donations are a thoughtful way to remember a person on a special day or holiday.

HOW YOUR GIFT WILL HELP

In addition to providing hospice care, your gifts support needed programs available to our entire community. Most of these programs are available at no cost to anyone in the community. Your contributions support these programs, including:

• Grief counseling to anyone in the community who has lost a loved one
• Advance Care Planning so that end-of-life care choices will be known and legally documented
• Residential hospice care at the Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home for those who cannot be cared for in their own residence
• Education of healthcare professionals in the important areas of end-of-life care and pain or symptom control
• Complementary therapies designed to help patients and families experience the best possible quality of life

For more information on contributing to Hospice & Palliative CareCenter, please contact one of the following staff members at 336-768-3972 or 1-888-876-3663.

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June 15 is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. Exploitation of seniors is an issue none of us likes to think about. But it’s a growing problem. Well over a half-million incidents of elder abuse are reported each year.

Elder abuse includes intentional acts of malice, as well as simple acts of neglect or ignorance.

There are seven types of abuse:

• Self-neglect. When a mentally confused elder’s actions threaten his or her health or safety. For example, not eating or not bathing because of dementia.

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Consider taking your career in a new direction!

We are searching for compassionate and caring people to become a part of the HPCC team.

Spotlight positions for this week are:

- Community Outreach Coordinator
- Hospice Home Care Nurses
- Hospice Inpatient Facility Nurses

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Source: SeriousIllness.org

Technologies abound to help us stay connected with loved ones. There are also many options to support your relative in living independently. Here are some options in the areas of safety and health.

Personal safety and home security

• Personal medical alert: Wearable devices that call for help. Most require the push of a button. Some can detect a fall automatically. Others can be used even when away from home.
• Fall detection: Video systems that scan the bottom 12 inches of a residence. This protects privacy but reveals if a person has fallen to the floor.

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How a family uses its money usually starts with the care of family members, addressing basic needs such as the mortgage, medical costs and tuition bills.

What a family decides to do with its money after basic needs have been met can cover an array of venues. If you do choose to contribute to charitable causes, you will be pleased to know that you can give in ways that not only benefit the causes you love, but you and your family as well.

Three Ways to Make All the Difference
One—Annual gifts ensure that we will be able to provide much-needed patient services every year.
Two—A sizable gift to Hospice & Palliative CareCenter this year lets us use those funds to support immediate projects.

	Learn of the many ways you can minimize your taxes and maximize your gift to Hospice & Palliative CareCenter in our free guide.

Three—A gift in your will or trust demonstrates your commitment to improving health care in our community.

Please contact Ellen Coble at 336-331-1312 or ellen.coble@hospicecarecenter.org to learn more about the different ways to support Hospice & Palliative CareCenter.

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Source: SeriousIllness.org

Even those of us who enjoy cooking have days when it seems like just another chore. And when you are juggling the needs of an ill relative, it can be an even greater challenge to maintain enthusiasm.

Cooking for Caregiving recognizes that caregiving is love and that food is how we often show our love. The goal of this nonprofit organization is to present options that mean less cooking hassle for you as a family caregiver and healthier meals for your relative.

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21st Annual Camp Carousel for children, teens, and adults
July 25 – 29, 2011!

Camp Carousel is a bereavement retreat for children ages 6-12, teens, and adults who are grieving a death-related loss.

Campers will find support through small group grief sessions that provide them with a natural outlet for expression of feelings and healthy coping skills.

Special experiences include: creative play, art therapy, expressive movement, music therapy, animal-assisted therapy, and more!

Camp Carousel is open to the community!

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This is not a unique story. It’s told over and over. Many of the details and most of the emotions are shared by thousands who choose quality end-of-life care at Hospice & Palliative CareCenter.

The power in Madlon Glenn’s story lies in the very fact that it is not unique. It is the same story. It is a story of caring, compassion and comfort.

Madlon’s Story
Madlon’s mother, Hawley Chambers, suffered a serious injury in January 2008. At first, her family was hopeful that she would survive, but after two months and two unsuccessful surgeries, they called Hospice.

“The Hospice nurse gently broke the news to us that our mother would never recover,” Madlon says. After accepting the care and support from Hospice, the family’s story of pain and despair became one of peaceful acceptance.

“Hospice knew what to do for her and for us,” Madlon says. “They were always so kind. And we were grateful for the option of having around-the-clock care at the Hospice Home.”

When Madlon and her brother, Thornton “Butch” Chambers, visited their mother at the Hospice Home for the first time, they were amazed to see her looking so well. “She was sitting up for the first time in two months, her hair was fixed and she’d had a manicure,” Madlon says.

But the intense level of care Mrs. Chambers enjoyed during her time at Hospice went deeper than a beauty makeover. “She was frightened in the hospital but not at Hospice,” her daughter says. “She was never alone and she seemed more relaxed. She was at peace.”

With Hospice’s help, Mrs. Chambers’ family members found their own peace. As Madlon tells the story, “Hospice makes the patient’s last days mean something and prepares the family to let go.”

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Source: SeriousIllness.org

“Life after eighty rarely ends suddenly and unexpectedly in our sleep,” states Dr. Dennis McCullough, in his book My Mother, Your Mother. Instead, caring for an aging relative is more commonly a journey of many years. As a geriatrician and care provider to his late mother, he knows this terrain well.

McCullough outlines eight “stations” in the journey of late life. For each one, he offers insights and tips to help you counter the modern system of “fast medicine” with personalized solutions he calls “slow medicine.”

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