Trinity Hospice

04/15/2024

We are SO grateful for our amazing volunteers!! You are so important to our patients and families and we thank you for your time and energy! 🙏🏼✨

04/12/2024

Save the date! June 12, 2024
Our Chaplain and Community Outreach contact, Joelle Johns, BCC, MDiv, PT-Csp will be speaking on this panel sharing important info about how hospice can help folks with their “aging in place” planning. Hospice comes to you in whatever setting you call home. ✨

04/01/2024

When I say I will talk to anyone who will listen about good end of life care, I am serious! 😉

Listen to this episode from The Hospice Chaplaincy Show with Saul Ebema on Spotify. In Today’s episode, Saul talks with Joelle Johns on the importance of community education on death, dying and grief. Joelle is a pastoral thanatologist and a clinical chaplain.

03/29/2024

03/28/2024

Do you need grief support?
Please feel free to attend any of our grief support groups:

Holden Senior Center, 4th Weds at 1:00pm

Worcester Senior Center, 2nd Tuesday from 9:30-11:00am

First Congregational Church in Princeton, 3rd Friday at 1:00pm

You are not alone. Please reach out if you need support!

03/26/2024

My grief says that I dared to love, that I allowed another to enter the very core of my being and find a home in my heart. Grief is akin to praise; it is how the soul recounts the depth to which someone has touched our lives. To love is to accept the rites of grief.

~ Francis Weller: The Wild Edge of Sorrow

Art: Andrei Stan

03/20/2024

It is tempting to isolate following a loss, but one really needs beloved community to support them and bear witness. Please reach out if you need support. ✨

03/20/2024

“My mom started on hospice and she died.”
I hear this a lot.
It’s comments like these that keep people from getting the support they need during one of the most difficult times of their lives.

Hospice is not a diagnosis, it is a plan of care for the diagnosis.

Hospice is advised when a terminal diagnosis has been given and you or someone you love has been told they have six months or less to live.

When you start hospice you will receive the following:

*Resources that can make this time much easier for you and those you love.

*A reduction in some of your expenses, such as medication‘s, supplies needed for wound care or incontinency, and equipment needed to care for someone who is declining.

*A team that will collaboratively come together to help all of you navigate this difficult time with a little more ease.

Please don’t wait for the last days or hours to start hospice. Starting hospice will not speed up the process. From my perspective, starting hospice offers comfort, support, resources, and education about death, dying, and grief. In most cases I believe that starting hospice can offer a better quality of life at the end of life.”

From “The Hospice Heart”

03/08/2024

Our chaplain Joelle Johns in conversation with the wonderful folks at Heart of Hospice. She is a passionate patient advocate and cares for our patients and families like they are part of her own.

Listen to this episode from The Heart of Hospice Podcast on Spotify. Joelle Johns believes telling people they’re dying gives them an opportunity to say the goodbyes, do the final things they want to do, apologize, and forgive. Joelle is a death midwife and grief counselor, as well as a pastoral t...

03/07/2024

“You’ll get over it…”
It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life forever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved.
The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes.
How could it?
The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death.
This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it.
Why would I want them to?”

~Jeanette Winterson

Art: gratitude to the unknown artist

02/28/2024

And when you miss me most , remember that I
have only built a house next door .
A single breath away .
We can whisper through the walls
and send love notes in the shape of stars and sunsets
and the way that the light glistens on the water just so .
And although things are hard for you now
I am not far away .
I am absent only in flesh but my spirit is dancing with the heavenly ones .
We will reach each other once again , I promise .
Just not yet .
Find laughter again , okay ?
Find music and purpose and ways to feel alive .
We are only separated by a glimmer of time .
An interval .
Take comfort .
I have only built a house next door ....

Ullie-Kaye ✨

Art: Losa Aisato

02/19/2024