Los Angeles end of life care doesn’t take a break, even for the coronavirus. The COVID-19 outbreak has put a halt to day-to-day life as we know it. It’s also having profound impacts on how we mourn as well. Funerals are now restricted to as few as 2-5 attendees. At least one mortuary has stopped
Epilogue is the official bereavement newsletter of Faith & Hope Hospice, the best hospice Los Angeles County has to offer. Serving Los Angeles, Pasadena, and the surrounding communities. In this issue we explore: Managing the Transition from Caregiver to Mourner Ambiguous Loss and resources to learn more about this type of grief experience Glossary of Grief Terms
The coronavirus and the illness it causes, COVID-19, are encroaching on every aspect of life. There’s the obvious impact on physical health, but it goes so far beyond this. The far of an unknown, fast-spreading virus and bad information create an anxiety of their own. This is compounded with the true information which is conflicting
The health and safety of our patients, their families, and our staff is of utmost importance. That’s why Faith & Hope Hospice & Palliative Care in Los Angeles CA is taking proactive measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus. In additions to our standard precautions, we are also: Staying abreast of the ongoing updates
February 28, 2020 / Sarah Girling, ACSW, MSW Having a loved one pass away is one of the most intense experiences that one will have to go through. The process is tricky to navigate as an adult so what does that mean when it comes to children? What is the best way to help children
Hospice and palliative care in Los Angeles both rely heavily on the interdisciplinary team, a group that includes: – Physicians– Nurses– Certified Nurses Aids (CNA)– Spiritual Coordinators– Social Workers– Volunteers– and more These disciplines work together to address all aspects of a person’s life, physical, emotional, psychological, social, interpersonal, and spiritual. The role of each
Faith and Hope Hospice in Los Angeles county encourages the use of aromatherapy as part of a holistic approach to care. Aromatherapy is an ancient art that uses fragrances to provide comfort, reduce stress, and improve sleep. Aromatherapy is often used as a complementary therapy, and many hospice and palliative care patients find these helpful
Epilogue is the official bereavement newsletter of Faith and Hope Hospice, the best hospice Los Angeles County has to offer. Serving Los Angeles, Pasadena, and the surrounding communities. Welcome to Epilogue’s first edition of 2020! This issue of the bereavement newsletter explores: the use of Aromatherapy as a way to cope with grief. Common Experiences
Faith & Hope Hospice, the best hospice Los Angeles County has to offer, is now hosting our annual holiday toy drive. We hope you can help! This year, we are donating to the City of Hope 2019 Pediatric and Adolescent & Young Adult Christmas Wish List. Click here for a list of suggested gifts. (Hint: Gift
Epilogue November/December 2019 Faith and Hope Hospice Pasadena is the best hospice Los Angeles County has to offer. Serving Los Angeles, Pasadena, and the surrounding communities. Click here to download the latest edition of Faith & Hope Hospice’s bereavement newsletter, Epilogue. This edition of Epilogue covers the following topics: – Grief & the Holidays– Children’s
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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