Family Conversations
Being the one who organises everything
In most families one person ends up doing the arranging, the calling and the deciding, and they are frequently the person with the least capacity to grieve.
Topic
support
Every Before Last Wish article tagged support — 4 pieces across 2 sections.
Grief & After
Supporting someone who is grieving
People stay away because they do not know what to say. What is needed does not require the right words and does require turning up more than once.
Family Conversations
Caring for a parent while holding everything else together
Family carers provide the overwhelming majority of care, largely unpaid and largely unnoticed, and the practical support that exists is frequently unclaimed.
Grief & After
Grief: what is normal and what to expect
Most of what people are told about grief is wrong, including the stages, the timeline and the idea that it is something to get over.