The ResolutionCare Blog is inspired by our belief that “Dying isn’t a medical experience; it’s a human experience.” Through our experience in providing medical, social, and spiritual care for those coping with serious illness and their families, our amazing team works every day to provide comprehensive, compassionate palliative care to those who need us. At ResolutionCare, everyone brings their whole self to their work. And it is through our work that we are privileged to see stories of great reconciliation, transcendence, existential fear, belief, connection, courage, and beauty unfolding before our eyes every day. We are grateful to play a part in alleviating suffering and comforting those in our care, medically, spiritually and socially. The ResolutionCare Blog is our attempt to share some of these stories in a way that loves, honors, and respects those in our care.
We work hard to protect and respect the right to privacy of people we serve. Though stories are true, the names, details, locations and images may be changed where necessary to protect the identities of our palliative care recipients.
Bridging the Distance
It's not easy living hours of twisty mountain highway from a supermarket. It gets even harder when it's not milk you need, but healthcare. Woman at the gate, Photo by Justin Maxon [...]
We’ll Fix Yer Wagon
People often ask me what a palliative care chaplain does. It can be hard to describe, but I’m hoping to have a pithy answer before I retire. We use phrases [...]
Grace Notes, A Chaplain’s Blog
ResolutionCare's Director of Spiritual Support Services, Carl Magruder, recently debuted his new blog: Grace Notes, A Chaplain's Blog. What follows is an excerpt from his first post. Hospice and the Type One Error In [...]
Back to the Track
Being sick can keep you from doing what you love, alter your identity, and snatch away what you are passionate about. Troy, a young man in his thirties, loves to race cars. The speed, the [...]
“…a smith…”
Dick Kersh was father, a husband, and a dear friend to many. He was a firefighter, and in a sense, a fire tamer as a passionate blacksmith. His advice is to “make sure we are [...]
Heroes on the Front Lines
Two-thirds of Californians and 22 of California’s counties have no access to community-based palliative care. So, who helps people with serious illness who are experiencing difficult symptoms like nausea, pain, constipation, breathlessness, anxiety, or depression? [...]
Whaddya Gonna Do?
I met Rina in autumn. She came onto our service because her breast cancer, treated twenty years previously, had come back in metastatic form despite a double mastectomy. She was grateful for those twenty good [...]
Love Support
One of our people, Oscar, died today in the hospital. Almost everyone wants to die in our own homes, but there was no one to look after Oscar at home. He had severe pain and [...]
David’s Dignity
We invite you to meet David Daley, one of the people cared for by the team at ResolutionCare. David wanted to make this film as a cautionary tale to young people about using drugs [...]
Eye on the Prize
I love maps, however it was the London Underground that taught me that the map is not the territory. So useful and elegant as a guide for travel from Piccadilly Circus to Hampstead Heath, the [...]