Family Support Through Serious Illness  - Video Library

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Welcome Family and Friends of Hospice of the Carolina Foothills,

As you copy with the serious illness of your family member, we invite you to take time out to tune into your your needs. Find what speaks to you in this moment. Bookmark the page and come back another time, with a different need. 
The information in these videos is educational and supportive in nature. Caregivers and family, always defer to the unique, individualized needs and Plans of Care that are being tended by your family member's Care Team. 

We're here for you. If you experience major changes in your family member's condition, or unmet needs, contact your family member's Care Team at 828.245.0095, 800. 218.2273 (CARE), or SC Division 864.457.9100.  

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Click here to download and print list of these topics, with their descriptions. Share this with your family and friends.

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Timely Moments

"Just in time" moments to introduce the family's needs.

What's Your Time? - Name your anxious questions about time, like "how long?“
Hear? Here! - Tune into the present, into what's happening right now.
What Matters Most? - Ask, "What matters most?," and take action to make it happen.


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Small Words - Big Meanings

Redefine what "eating," "acceptance," and "hope" mean, for serious illness.

Eat - Is it "eating you" that your loved one is eating less? What can you do?
Accept  - Explore "acceptance" as an ongoing process.
Hope -  Explore what "hope" can mean, in the midst of serious illness.


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Family and Friends

Support, decisions, and potential conflict. Your circle of family and friends are crucial.

Re-Lation-Ships - Understand your most important relationships in new ways.
Changing Roles and Goals  - Everything in your family feels out of balance?
Different Styles of Care -  Are different opinions and styles of care creating conflict?


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Coping

How do you cope when your family member is seriously ill?

Refill, Refuel, Recharge - You feel empty. Depleted. It's time to refill, refuel, and recharge.
Physically  - How is your health being affected by your family member's illness?
Emotionally -  Are your emotions like a roller coaster? Her's what you can do.
Mentally - Are you overloaded with information? Too many decisions?
Socially - Your friends, workplace, and others don't "get" it? Some do?
Spiritually - Where do you find purpose, comfort, and meaning?


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Hear Me!

Hear the needs of children, teens, and seniors who are part of your family.

Children - What is your child's relationship with the person who is ill? The child's age? What can you do?
Teens -  Teens may be losing a parent, grandparent, sibling, or friend. Hear them. Help them cope.
Seniors -  Seniors can be discounted. See what's happening from their eyes and ears.


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Portraits of Grief

Grief is less like stages and more like a personal portrait. What is yours?

Grief's Many Colors - Different kinds of loss and grief affect us in different ways. 
Anticipatory Grief -  Anticipate. Expect. Participate. Relate. Learn what you can be doing, now.
Sudden Grief -  A sudden crisis or loss especially hard. See it . Respond. Tend with care.
Disenfranchised Grief - Are you experiencing a loss that others discount? Or a loss they don't know?
Ambiguous Grief - Are you experiencing a no-end kind of grief? It is ongoing, with no endings?
Complicate Grief - Are you--or another--terribly stuck in grief? Frozen? Unable to cope?


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You Family Member Is ...

Explore special needs of these family members, when they are seriously ill.

Dealing With Dementia - Learn how your family member's dementia can affect you. 
A Veteran -  Seek to understand his or her unique needs as a veteran.
A Child or Teen -  Your stressors, decisions, and responsibilities are overwhelming? 


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Across the Miles

Do you or other family live long distance from the one who is ill?

Mutual Support - One family member is the caregiver, another lives away. Give and find mutual support.  
Do I Stay or Do I Go? -  You live long distance. How do you discern, "Do I stay or do I go?"
Creative Connections -  Your family is scattered across the miles. Explore creative ways to connect! 


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