When Marion’s family finally brought palliative care into her life last October, her son said something in the doctor’s office in Calgary that has stayed with him ever since. “I
July 3, 2026
Skip to content When Marion’s family finally brought palliative care into her life last October, her son said something in the doctor’s office in Calgary that has stayed with him ever since. “I
A daughter we work with in Calgary noticed her father was different at Christmas dinner this year. He was always the most organized man she knew. A retired structural engineer
A Calgary mother in her late seventies was diagnosed with advanced lung cancer in October. Her doctor mentioned palliative care during the appointment. The daughter, sitting beside her mother in
A few months ago, a daughter we work with stopped by her father’s place in Mount Pleasant for a Sunday visit. He was fine. He made tea. They talked about
Last spring, a daughter in Calgary called us in tears. She had hired a private caregiver six months earlier through a community Facebook group. A lovely woman, who spoke kindly
Carol had her hip replacement scheduled at Foothills Medical Centre for a Tuesday morning. By Thursday afternoon she was home. Her daughter, who works full-time in Airdrie and lives 40
When Margaret stopped returning calls and refused to open her front door in Bowness, her daughter assumed the 79-year-old was simply grieving her husband’s passing. Meals went untouched. The garden
When Patricia’s daughter noticed her 81-year-old mother acting strangely, confused, agitated, refusing to eat, and suddenly unable to recognize familiar faces, she immediately feared the worst. A stroke, perhaps. Or
When Carol’s mother was diagnosed, the neurologist used both words in the same sentence. Alzheimer’s disease. Dementia. Carol nodded as though she understood, then sat in the hospital parking lot
When Robert’s daughter first noticed that her 79-year-old father was skipping showers and wearing the same clothes for days, her first instinct was to bring it up gently. He brushed