Resources
Find other local organizations and helpful information on a variety of topics using the links below.
Search our lending library with resources on all topics, free for anyone to check out from our office.
Caregiver Resources
Caring Bridge A calendar that helps family and friends coordinate care and organize helpful tasks
Senior Solutions Help & Resources for people aged 60 and up
Medical Hospice
Advance Care Planning
Act 39: Patient Choice at End of Life
Bereavement
Our Library
Funerals
Act 39: Patient Choice at End of Life
Throughout the years of debate regarding physician aid in dying, Center for Solace has maintained a neutral position which remains in place now that Act 39: Patient Choice and Control at End of Life is law.
If one of our clients chooses this process, we consider it a legal choice and we will continue to provide our services to them. Alternatively, if a client does not choose it, we respect that choice as well. In either case, clients will receive our services.
Center for Solace is a non-medical hospice and therefore does not become involved in any medical treatment or care. We do collaborate with local nursing agencies and healthcare facilities. Regardless of how these agencies respond to the law, we will continue to work with them and serve our shared clients. We are committed to serving everyone at the end of their life, whether or not a person chooses to consider Act 39 as an option.
Below are resources regarding Act 39:
Vermont Ethics Network: Act 39
Vermont Department of Health: Act 39
Grief & Loss: Expressions through Writing
The power of words to move grief through us is real and available to all. Recent brain science studies have shown that naming emotional experiences, and describing them with written words, alters their intensity in the direction of release. We are honored to share with you several pieces of writing about grief, along with an in-depth interview with a bereaved mother and father. These offerings come from members of our community, and we are deeply grateful to these individuals for their generosity in allowing us to use them. We hope they will inspire you to find your own words to express what may lie hidden in your heart.
~ Connie Baxter, former Bereavement Care Coordinator
Click to read: Grief & Loss: Expressions Through Writing