The Gilchrist Blog
The goal of our blog is to provide you with comprehensive and inspiring information about issues that are important to our continuum of care. We also share the latest news about Gilchrist, highlight our work in the community, promote upcoming events, provide program-specific information and offer ways you can help – either by volunteering or fundraising.
Gilchrist Ambassadors: Educating the Community About End-of-Life Issues
Gilchrist Ambassadors are able to speak about end-of-life, elder care and other issues that are important to people with serious illness. The U.S. medical system...
Gilchrist Kids: Age is Just a Number
“So, you must LOVE kids, right?” This is a common question I hear when describing my work as a Gilchrist Kids pediatric and perinatal hospice...
Navigating Grief During Winter
The winter season often brings snow, warm cups of tea and fires in the fireplace. For those who have experienced a loss, navigating grief during...
Integrative Medicine: Helping Cancer Patients Cope
What is Integrative Medicine? Integrative Medicine is a specialty that focuses on the care of the whole person, not just the disease. It uses a...
Pediatric Hospice: The Unknown Road Ahead
The first time Joan Garlow walked through the doors of Gilchrist Center in search of information on pediatric hospice care, she broke into sobs and...
7 Things I Never Knew About Hospice
My 91-year-old mother, Evelyn, moved in with my husband and me after Dad died in 2010. Five years ago, she was diagnosed with dementia. After...
Grief in a Time of Change
Lately it seems that we, as a society, are struggling to grieve. Although we have been dealing with aging, illness and loss for generations, grieving...
Supporting Elderly Patients and Their Families
Through Gilchrist’s Elder Medical Care program, social workers and resource coordinators provide ongoing emotional support and resource coordination at no cost to patients and families...
Thanks To You
Thanks to you, each day, more than 900 adults and children in our community receive compassionate hospice care and support from Gilchrist. As a hospice...
Honoring Veterans Living In Residential Care Communities
One hundred years ago, on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, World War I ended with the establishment of the...