Event Details
Healing & Hospice at the Bedside: Engaging the Senses for Comfort and Connection
Presented by Melissa Lewis, RN, BSN, CPHCN
Illness, injury, the dying process, and even anticipatory grief can make a person’s world very small. Energy fades. Mobility changes. Words become harder to find. Patients often depend on others to bring the world to them at the bedside.
This presentation explores how sound, touch, scent, taste, and visual connection can still reach people when so much else is falling away. Even when memory fades or conversation stops, the senses can offer comfort, grounding, connection, and moments of peace.
We’ll also look at how our own attachments, aversions, and judgments shape suffering and care. The same smell, sound, or touch can soothe one person and unsettle another. Learning to meet these moments with presence instead of resistance can change the experience for everyone involved.
This is not about sugarcoating hard realities or forcing meaning onto suffering. It’s about learning how to stay present with what is — and finding that comfort, beauty, and connection can still exist, even when things are "not okay".
Who is this for?
Caregivers, healthcare professionals, hospice workers, patients, families, and anyone wanting to enhance "QOL for ROL" Quality of Life for the Rest of Life.
This is a free program. Donations are most welcome and appreciated to support our Ministries of Spirituality, Wellness, the Arts and Ecology. Thank you.
Online via Zoom
COST | FREE
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