Whether it’s reading the newspaper together, engaging in conversation, providing company during a meal or taking walks, volunteers can help: NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital is seeking volunteers to support its newly launched Hospital Elder Life Program (HELP). HELP is a patient care program that provides extra attention and care to…
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Three things I have learned about end-of-life care from treating elderly couples with cancer
Experience provides fortitude, equanimity and perspective. Not everyone wants to live forever “We are happy and sad to see you again. You looked after Dad years ago.” I kick myself for not registering the connection, although I only met him during a brief and disastrous stint in hospital. The complications of cancer treatment had kept…
Meet Beryl, The 100-Yr-Old Volunteer Who Is Stealing Hearts On And Off The Clock
A 100-year-old grandma named Beryl of London, England, is still volunteering as a cashier at Friends Cafe in Ealing Hospital. Eighteen years ago, a woman named Beryl Carr was picking up the pieces after losing her husband. She was in her late 70s at the time, so she moved to London, England, to start a…
Elderly woman Norma Cook…taken in by kind neighbor Chris Salvator
An emerging actor Chris Salvatore, 31, has invited his elderly neighbor Norma Cook, 89, to live with him permanently in an effort to cut her health costs. Norma is battling leukemia. Norma Cook, the 89-year-old woman whose friendship with her neighbor, 31, melted hearts across the nation, died in Los Angeles on Wednesday morning. The…
100-year-old woman, nearly homeless, meets her saviors
Evelyn Heller, a 100-year-old woman with a long white ponytail, was sitting on her couch in the living room of her new apartment when there was a knock at the door. On her doorstep was Congressman Raul Ruiz and his wife, Monica Rivers, who was holding a pot of homemade chicken noodle soup. “That’s wonderful!”…