Life-limiting illness affects the whole family. Navigating a path through the confusion is hard, but you don’t have to do it ...

Once everyone knows, the whole family enters a new phase called anticipatory grief. But not every family member will act in the same way—responses will depend on their age, emotional health ...

Anticipatory grief As illness progresses, there may come a time when the patient is told no more can be done, and that their treatment from now on will be palliative . This is a kind but sometimes ...

Living with chronic illness in the family is hard. It's even harder if you know that the person you love will get worse and won't recover from their ...

In 2022, nearly 108,000 people died from drug overdose the CDC reported. About 76% of those deaths involved opioids.

When our dog Samson died suddenly on Thanksgiving weekend, I thought my husband and I would wait until at least the spring to ...

Dear Upside Down: Anticipatory grief is the experience of feeling sadness before a loss occurs. It can be really hard to navigate because there’s not an event to latch on to in the present.

Grief may be a universal experience but it’s felt uniquely across our multicultural landscape. This is a second chance to ...

I would gratefully appreciate any and all advice you can give me. Anticipatory grief is the experience of feeling sadness before a loss occurs. It can be really hard to navigate because there’s ...