A hospice is a program of services offered to people who are dying and to their families. Hospice care provides physical, psychological, social, and spiritual care for the person for whom aggressive treatment is no longer appropriate. Hospice care was begun as an aid for people who wanted to die at home, and many hospice [...]
“There are a couple of things that I would like to emphasize. First, people, particularly parents, have to remember that kids with epilepsy are kids first. You can’t ascribe all of their problems to epilepsy. Kids fight, they sulk, they rebel, they don’t do their chores. Epilepsy is not responsible for all of the child’s [...]
For the adolescent with an alcohol/substance problem, how might AA be of use? The first thought might be that the adolescent would never identify with a group of predominantly 35- to 55-year-olds. In many areas, that stereotype of the AA group does not necessarily hold true; there are now in some locales what are called [...]