SerenAging with Suzanne

11/01/2026

💜 Three kinds of support. One important conversation.

When someone we love is facing serious illness or the end of life, knowing what support is available, having conversations about it, and making plans well in advance can make all the difference.

I’m honored to join representatives from hospice and palliative care for an upcoming educational program presented by the Onondaga County Institute for Caregivers.

We’ll explore three important and complementary forms of support:

🌿 Hospice Care

🌿 Palliative Care

🌿 End-of-Life Doula Support

As an RN and Doulagiver Specialist, I’m passionate about helping individuals, families, and communities approach aging and the end of life with greater knowledge, confidence, compassion, and presence.

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

12:00–1:30 PM

Online via Microsoft Teams

Free educational program for older adults, family caregivers, and anyone interested in learning more.

Registration: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/g/Gvm3FS3DJg

Because these conversations about the end of life are really conversations about how our community cares for one another. 💜

Serenity, Suz
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10/31/2026

Serenity, Suz
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Minoa Library

10/20/2026

Join me this week at Minoa Library as we resume the Good Death Good Life Seminar Series and I bring a fresh and even more heart- centered perspective to these conversations on the 1- month milestone of my Dad’s death.

I plan to blend last month’s postponed “common end of life phenomena” and this month’s “death is having a re-birth” topics in more of a cafe style discussion format.

Advance registration via the Minoa Library site is requested but drop- ins are always welcome.

Hope to see you on Wednesday.

Serenity, Suz
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Join us on Weds, October 21 at 11AM (1 hr) for a continuing discussion about how to support you and/or your loved one through the end of life. It's a complex topic, but one we're all going to face. Led by End-of-Life Doula Suzanne Talarico. Learn tools for caring for a loved one, planning, and finding support.

08/29/2026

08/29/2026

Minoa Library SerenAging with Suzanne Suzanne Marie

08/29/2026

Another great seminar series session this week at Minoa Library.

Meaningful dialogue about dementia care and the Dementia Advance Directive, caregiver burnout, the 5 things people regret most when a loved one dies, MAiD and VSED.

Next Seminar will be on September 16 at 11AM where we will talk about the 3 most universal end of life phenomena and how understanding them can bring peace to the dying and their loved ones.

Serenity, Suz
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08/14/2026

This!!

I had a conversation with the daughter of a new hospice patient.

She asked, “Why didn’t my mom’s doctor tell us about hospice sooner?”

Her mother was doing Telehealth visits for over a year with her doctors because she was unable to leave her house due to edema from Congestive Heart Failure.

Her mother had been refusing to go to the ER for assessment/ treatment of her symptoms. Four times over the last year this was recommended. Four times she said no. She wanted to be at home. She did not want to return to the ER.

Her disease was advancing.

Her quality of life was declining.

Finally, the physician referred her to palliative care after more than a year of living like this.

The patient quickly found out that she qualified for hospice care.

She came on to hospice and, within a week, her symptoms were better managed.

Her daughter also now had the support of the hospice nurse, physician, social worker, chaplain, and bath aids.
She shared that she feels so much less alone in caring for her mom.

The daughter shared with me, her hospice social worker, “my mom has suffered needlessly for over a year because we didn’t know there was another option.”

I recognize that there are some hospices out there that are trying to just make a profit. We’ve all seen the articles on fraudulent hospices.

And, there are so many more hospices out there that are filled with compassionate care providers who want to end the needless suffering that those approaching end of life can experience.

We all need to be community educators, making sure everyone knows the options that are available at end of life. We need to keep communicating with medical providers who can begin to refer sooner.

Everyone deserves quality care at end of life.