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Teresa – Pierre’s legacy

Teresa shares the story of Pierre and how his medical needs required a move to a long term care facility. He declined very quickly when he was away from people he knew and the familiarity of his surroundings. His story motivated Community Living Dufferin to start providing supportive services and resources in order to have people stay in their home at their end of life.

Chantal – Anticipatory grief

Chantal defines antipatory grief and the grief before the physical loss

Susan – “Music”

Susan explains the value of listening to music and how it comforts her.

Murray – Giving space for grief in song writing class

Murray talks about song writing, death and making space

Madelyn – The power of music

Madelyn – discusses the potency of music and processing good and bad memories

Carrie – Validation

Carrie talks about validation and feeling that someone is full responsive and fully present to you and what is going on in your grief… feeling “felt”

Sara – Music at the end of life

Sara talks about the values of music at the end of life

Maureen – “Grief can change the landscape of your relationships”

Maureen discusses how relationships can be challenged by grief.

Sarah K – Humour to cope

Sarah discuss how humour has been a tool in helping her to cope

Jessica M – A Parking Lot Memorial

Jessica shares how her family gathered after her uncle died during COVID and how her family came up with a creative way of getting together in a parking lot.

Kim – Self care

Kim talks about looking after yourself and how much it helps. In particular be kind to yourself

Cara – Grief and intellectual disabilities is a topic that needs to “get out there”

Cara shares some information from a participant in her research on intellectual disabilities and the bereaved. A person with an intellectual disability said… “Grief: It’s a topic that needs to get out there” Grief is something that so many people are hesitant to talk about, to display, to show, because there’s so many social rules around how we grieve. This is particularily challenging for the intellectually disabled.