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Your go-to resources for educational articles, videos and other content to help you maintain your health, dignity and independence as you age or recover from life-limiting illness or injury, or as you transition to caring for an aging loved one.
Total Body Strength Protocol
If it doesn’t challenge you it doesn’t change you. This statement not only applies to life's challenges, but it also applies to physical activity and fitness. When it...

Being a Caregiver
Being a caregiver When you need someone to look after you or a love one, it’s never easy to find a solution, a person that could be there for the relative long-term. ...

Preparing for Aging
Preparing for Ageing “Hey Mom, how are you?” “I’ve had a bit of a fall and I can’t really move very well”, she said. I was thousands of miles away busy on a...

Home Health to Hospice – Witnessing That Transition
When you first enter her home, the first thing you would notice is the hospital bed right in the middle of the living room. Her family converted the living room into...

I Didn’t Know About Home Health – Until I Jumped Into It
RING RING RING “Parentis Home Health, how can I help you?” It’s a simple thing to pick up the phone and ask this question, right? It seems that way, although...

This is how I entered the Medical Field
It was my Senior year in high school when I was confronted with the very real thought that I would be graduating soon and I had to pick what I was going to do with my...

Hospice Volunteer Program
I would like to share an article written by our Volunteer Coordinator here at Parentis Hospice. Mrs. Taylor Edwards Harper who holds a Masters Degree in Psychology and...

08/01/1996.. My Life Changed Forever
A ten-year-old boy sitting in a plane flying on the way to Tijuana, as I look towards my parents and my two-year-old brother… just one question pops into my head. Why?...