What Matters Most
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Family conversations exploring the question “what matters most?” to those involved in providing or receiving care in the last stages of life. Allina Health helped fund this project.
Family conversations exploring the question “what matters most?” to those involved in providing or receiving care in the last stages of life. Allina Health helped fund this project.
34 Pieces
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Armando appreciates how his family members came together to share responsibilities and support his mother, in her last days.
- Added: Mar 14, 2017
- Length: 01:30
Alice talks about caregiving as a team effort among family members, in order to support each other.
- Added: Mar 14, 2017
- Length: 01:30
Alice recalls the importance of helping keep her mother’s pride and integrity intact, even as her health declined.
- Added: Mar 14, 2017
- Length: 01:30
Michelle stresses the value of having a care conference with health care providers and family members, to help get what you need.
- Added: Mar 14, 2017
- Length: 01:30
Sunny shares about how talking with others is key to support, when family members face serious illness.
- Added: Mar 14, 2017
- Length: 01:30
Sunny reflects on how speaking about a loved one after they pass, helps comfort surviving family members.
- Added: Mar 14, 2017
- Length: 01:30
Colin reflects on how he had to put his own feelings aside, as he cared for loved one dying of cancer.
- Added: Mar 14, 2017
- Length: 01:30
Colin shares how asking the Creator to take his father, was one of the hardest thing he has ever done.
- Added: Mar 14, 2017
- Length: 01:30
Narin talks about the importance of taking time to seek help from an interpreter, when making serious decisions about treatment and care for a love...
- Added: Mar 14, 2017
- Length: 01:30
Narin speaks about how caregiving includes looking after surviving elderly relatives, following the loss of a family member.
- Added: Mar 14, 2017
- Length: 01:30
Janice reflects on how she had struggled to choose between completing school and caregiving, when her father faced his final days.
- Added: Mar 14, 2017
- Length: 01:30
Janice shares how she learned a lot about honoring wishes, while supporting a co-worker who was facing terminal illness.
- Added: Mar 14, 2017
- Length: 01:30
Susana stresses the importance of having the hard conversations with parents and their wishes about care, when facing serious illness.
- Added: Mar 14, 2017
- Length: 01:30
Susana shares how separating from families is hard for everyone, when elders need more intensive care.
- Added: Mar 14, 2017
- Length: 01:30
Sandra speaks on the importance of listening to family member facing illness, to learn what matters most when making plans for treatment.
- Added: Mar 14, 2017
- Length: 01:30
Souvanh shares how in Laotian culture, everyone pitches in with help and support, when a loved one dies.
- Added: Mar 14, 2017
- Length: 01:30
Souvanh talks about how a language barrier increased his mother’s worries and concerns, and explanations offered important relief.
- Added: Mar 14, 2017
- Length: 01:30
Timothy reflects on how some people prefer not to speak about death, even as they face the end of their life.
- Added: Mar 14, 2017
- Length: 01:30
Timothy speaks about how caring for someone in their final days, can create a lasting connection.
- Added: Mar 14, 2017
- Length: 01:30
Richard speaks about the bonding and deep value of spending time with a terminally-ill loved one.
- Added: Mar 14, 2017
- Length: 01:30
