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The question of a funeral

The question of a funeral

Our social worker and child life specialists speak to the patients and parents, informing them of Kristen’s death and offering support. No one thinks to ask the nurses what we might need. They invent an exercise for us a few days later. Using the bulletin board at the...

With Flowers

With Flowers

I’ve tried to tell this story before. Let me try again. This time with flowers. My mother died on Mother’s Day. It’s nearly impossible for me to comprehend, because she was my mother. Every store window was crowded with flowers and mother-daughter bullshit, and my...

Reshaping Canada’s caregiving system

Reshaping Canada’s caregiving system

If every caregiver took one week off, our care systems would collapse before noon on the very first day. Maybe even earlier. The sustainability of our health care and social systems relies on caregivers and care providers, but they have reached a breaking point. Make...

I can quit you, baby

I can quit you, baby

I am trying to disabuse myself of the false notion that I can anticipate everyone’s needs and, thereby, prevent suffering. I don’t know when and where along the winding way of my life I decided that I, Courtney Martin, had the all-knowing power to detect other...

Frontotemporal dementia: ‘I don’t ever want to be looked at by John as a caregiver, I want him to see me as his partner’

Frontotemporal dementia: ‘I don’t ever want to be looked at by John as a caregiver, I want him to see me as his partner’

Cindy McCaffery provides support to her husband John who was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia more than a decade ago, at age 48. Over the years, she has come to understand the importance of active living, and its apparent role in slowing down brain disease...

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