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ELDERS
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Understand that lonliness, helplessness and boredom account
for the bulk of suffering in our community today. Companionship,
nature, animals and sharing bring the quality of life to each
and everyone of us. As we grow older these simple needs become
unsurmontable challenges in our daily lifes. Variety and spontaneity
is essential to remain active and stimulated. Quality of life
must be valued from the young to the elder. That is why the
community of the Lakeshore Institute has within its vision a
five year goal to develop an interfaith, inter-generational
community where needs, values, and principles will survive.
We
are looking for contributions, donations, land and housing to
create a facility for assisted living and hospice: integrating
the eden philosophy of reducing the isolation and depression
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HOSPICE IS A CHOICE
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Hospice care is a choice you make to enhance life for a dying person. A person with a terminal disease may choose to die at home with the support of family, friends, and caring professionals. Hospice care emphasizes comfort measures and counseling to provide social, spiritual, and physical support to the dying patient and his or her family. All hospice care is under professional medical supervision.
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HOSPICE PROVIDES RELIEF FROM PAIN
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The physical pain arising from a terminal illness may be debilitating, frightening and dehumanizing. Hospice providers have the skills and resources to permit persons to live as pain-free, as comfortable, and as full a life as possible.
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HOSPICE PROVIDES SUPPORT
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In addition to providing for the physical comfort of the dying person, hospice provides social and spiritual support for the patient and his or her family. This support takes the form of time-off for the primary caregiver, personal care, nutritional counseling, spiritual counseling, and help with legal and funeral arrangements.
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SPIRITUAL CARE
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Throughout ones life journey, one develops personal thoughts that shape ones individual religious beliefs, values, and methods of coping, that is which forms ones unique spirituality. Hospice recognizes the importance of the spiritual in life. And this part of human experience often grows in significance as a person faces their own or a loved one's death. While dying is the end of one journey, it is the beginning of another. So it is often a contemplative time, as people think at what their life has meant and what death means.
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HOSPICE AND INTERFAITH
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Hospice views spirituality as being different from religion. Spirituality encompasses a person's life experience and goes beyond their identification with a particular religion. At Mother's Trust we are trying to establish a program that would honor the individual and their family, rooted in the world religions, faiths, cultures and traditions. When caring for the dying, spiritual care represents an integral part of hospice care, just as controlling the patient's physical pain or involving the family members in elderly care.
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LAKESHORE INTERFAITH COMMUNITY
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People
who come to the Lakeshore Interfaith Community services at
Mother's Trust/ Mother's Place are Hindus, Jews, Muslims,
Christians, Native Americans, Buddhists, etc. The individuals
and volunteers of the Community try to train themselves in
different belief systems to better meet the needs of all,
especially when helping to look after the elderly. This effort
allows the best spiritual care to be offered to the individual
and their family. When doing such care, we provide emotional
and spiritual support as non-judgmental listeners, assist
in contacting spiritual leaders, priests, rabbis, swamis,
pastors, etc. in accordance with tradition and preference.
In this way: we honor our creed and mission
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