H Community Resources and Services
Aging is inevitable. Growing old is not. We have one-of-a-kind senior services for one-of-a-kind seniors. The James and Sharon Maida Geriatrics Institute provides seniors with comprehensive in-patient and outpatient geriatric services all under one roof. To learn more, call 732-886-4700 or visit rwjbh.org/monmouthgeriatrics
Let’s age better together.
Extra Help For Tough Diseases
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Have a serious diagnosis? Palliative care can help answer big questions, improve quality of life and more.
them physically, emotionally and spiritually,” says Claire Verruni, RN, CHPN, a nurse educator with the Community Health and Social Impact and Community Investment team at Monmouth Medical Center Receiving a potentially life threatening diagnosis can trigger fear, Southern Campus (MMCSC). Palliative care services are available stress, depression and deep questions and appropriate early in the course of meaning, not to mention many of a serious illness such as cancer, uncertainties about treatments, their heart failure, kidney disease, chronic benefits and their drawbacks. But no obstructive pulmonary disease one has to face these trials alone. (COPD) or neurologic disorders such “A member of our palliative care as Parkinson’s or amyotrophic lateral team can sit with a patient and family, listen to their concerns and priorities, sclerosis (ALS). “People hear ‘palliative’ and help them have difficult conversations think it equals ‘hospice,’ but they’re about their plan of care, guide them not the same thing,” says Melanie through all the what-ifs and support (continued on page 29) = Web Link on www.SeniorsBlueBook.com • Spring-Summer 2022 • 27
