Finding the right hospice provider is important for both a patient and their loved ones. It can make a tremendous difference in their quality of life on a daily basis. Plus, it can offer the support that family members need in a difficult time. Given that this is such an important decision, it makes sense
Although dementia patients face cognitive decline, they can still gain a great amount of satisfaction from hospice care in Burbank CA. Dementia can affect the left temporal lobe of the brain, which is responsible for language processes and comprehension. This is why many dementia patients start to lose their ability to communicate verbally. However, many
Hospice experts in Los Angeles CA say that at least 5 million people in the United States are currently living with age-related forms of dementia. As you may or may not know, dementia is a general term for cognitive decline that interferes with a person’s daily life. Alzheimer’s disease accounts for 60-80% of dementia cases,
While many of us can appreciate the therapeutic effect of music, hospices in Burbank CA are noticing just how impactful music therapy can be for patients suffering from terminal illnesses. Recent studies have linked musical exercises to soothing physical and emotional ailments as well as improving one’s overall quality of life. Many hospices are exploring
The Epilogue is the official bereavement newsletter of Faith & Hope Hospice in Pasadena CA In this issue we explore: • Grief and the Holidays• Book Review: The Five Invitations by Frank Ostaseski• Movie Review: The Family Stone• Grief Explored: Intuitive and Instrumental Grief• Light the Night: Annual Patient Memorial• Stress and Grief• Grief-tivity: Salt-Dough Ornaments• Recipe for French Market
Stress can make everyday worries, including grief, feel worse and harder to manage. Our brains are like computers. There is only so much that we can process at once. When we reach a certain level, things just start to fall apart. For computers, this means it takes longer to process information or to load content.
Epilogue Sept Oct 2020 Epilogue is the official bereavement newsletter of Faith & Hope Hospice in Pasadena CA In this issue we explore: Grief vs. Depression Book Review: Grief is a Journey: Finding Your Path Through Loss by Kenneth J. Doka, PhD Movie Review: Coco Grief Explored: Grief Work Light the Night: Annual Patient Memorial Invitation New Volunteer Opportunities
This year has been bizarre, to say the least. COVID-19 drastically changed the way hospice care is provided, leaving us in a perpetual state of change. That’s true for Faith and Hope Hospice in Pasadena. One major change limits volunteers’ ability to see patients, as we’ve had to stop all face-to-face visits. That’s not going
In this conversation, we reconnect with Karrie Filios, MA, MFT, LPC, children’s grief specialist. She discusses: COVID-19’s theft of our assumptive world A child’s perspective on the pandemic The overlay of grief and COVID-19 restrictions Self-care Ways to support children and their adult caregivers Karrie also shared these resources: Children and Grief: When a Parent
In this edition of COVID Conversations, Faith and Hope Hospice Los Angeles, talks with Reid Vanderburgh, MA, about the impact of COVID-19 on the LGBTQ+ Community. In this conversation, we discuss: Common challenges and unique needs of LGBTQ+ individuals accessing healthcare Common concerns the community face with life-limiting illness and end of life The impact
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We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
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Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to