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Find a bit of beauty in the world today

September 22, 2024 By Susannah Fox 9 Comments

A bee rests in the middle of a basil plant

Find a bit of beauty in the world today.Share it.  If you can’t find it, create it.Some days this may be hard to do.Persevere. – Lisa Bonchek Adams Today would have been the 92nd birthday of my “third grandfather,” Mitsuru Yasuhara. One of my goals for his final weeks was to spark joy at least […]

Filed Under: beauty and wonder, end of life Tagged With: caregivers, family, hospice, Lisa Bonchek Adams

Wow! How? End of life

November 23, 2023 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Wow! How? Health

What if I told you that a key health care metric grew in a positive direction, from 24% to 31% in 15 years? What if I then told you that a big part of the change was driven by people inspired by personal experiences, not clinical training? Most Americans tell survey researchers they don’t want […]

Filed Under: Champions, end of life, Solvers Tagged With: Alexandra Drane, Arden O’Connor, Engage with Grace, Leigh Calabrese-Eck, Matthew Holt, Sarah Stephens Winnay, Wow! How? Health

Engage with Grace

November 23, 2022 By Susannah Fox 9 Comments

5 questions about end-of-life choices

Can you and your loved ones answer these questions? 1. On a scale of 1 to 5, where do you fall on this continuum: 1 = Let me die without medical intervention; 5 = Don’t give up on me no matter what, try any proven and unproven intervention possible. 2. If there were a choice, […]

Filed Under: end of life, shared decision making Tagged With: caregivers, Engage with Grace, family

Designing Peer-to-peer Health

February 10, 2022 By Susannah Fox Leave a Comment

Susannah Fox Ep 59 Design Lab with Bon Ku

“How can peer to peer connection make a healthier society? Can Amazon reviews give us fresh insight into our health? Why do on-line patient communities represent an incredible untapped resource in healthcare? How can a co-designed death give us a fuller life?” Bon Ku and I explore these questions and more in Episode 59 of […]

Filed Under: end of life, peer-to-peer health care Tagged With: Alexandra Drane, BJ Miller, Bon Ku, Engage with Grace, Jodi Ferrier, John Costik, Laurie Strongin, Nightscout, podcast, Sara Riggare, Sarah Stephens Winnay, Yoko Sen

Lessons learned about hospice care

October 19, 2020 By Susannah Fox 39 Comments

Thick trunk reaches up to the sky, sunlight filters through leaves

A loved one recently went over the cancer waterfall and I dove in after him, keeping his head above water long enough to say goodbye to everyone. It was an intense four weeks of caregiving – two in the hospital and two at home, in hospice.  I am sharing one segment of our story to […]

Filed Under: e-patient stories, end of life Tagged With: caregivers, family, hospice, Medicare, peer-to-peer healthcare, Renee Berry

Elegy for A. and M.

August 31, 2020 By Susannah Fox 16 Comments

Elegy for unaccompanied viola, by Benjamin Britten

I grew up rich in cousins. I spent holidays with my first cousins and lived, starting at age 11, in the same town with second cousins (the children of my mother’s first cousin) AND a first cousin twice removed (my grandmother’s first cousin – each generation that separates us is the “removed” part). Don’t worry, […]

Filed Under: beauty and wonder, end of life Tagged With: caregivers, end of life, family

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