Joe Peters, LCFL Director of Counseling and Volunteer Services, provides basic tips to help you cope while staying safe and isolated to protect yourself and loved ones from COVID-19. https://youtube.com/watch?v=5iQEYgqMJegHi there. My name is Joe Peters. I am the Director of Counseling and Volunteer Services with Lower Cape Fear LifeCare. I wanted to reach out […]
Marty Hernandez, LCFL Children’s Bereavement Coordinator, provides insight into understanding the anxiety and stress children may experience in connection with COVID-19. Marty provides tips for parents to help their children cope with their anxiety. https://youtube.com/watch?v=rLSC6UFVPc8I’m Marty Hernandez. I’m the children’s grief counselor coordinator with Lower Cape Fear LifeCare. Part of my job there is to […]
Diane Miller LCFL Grief Care Counselor, talks about relieving anxiety as you navigate through this time of uncertainty due to COVID-19. Hi. My name is Diane Miller. I’m a licensed clinical social worker and a grief counselor with Lower Cape Fear LifeCare. I would like to spend a few minutes with you to offer suggestions […]
Kristen Rudy, LCFL Grief Care Counselor, leads you on a short guided meditation to help you relieve stress and anxiety.
At a time when we are all trying to distance ourselves from one another, it may seem counter intuitive to invite extra people into your home by way of a hospice or palliative care team. Not so. Hospice and palliative care clinicians maintain preparedness for a wide array of infectious diseases, including new emerging diseases […]
Each of us is unique in our own way. We have personal likes and dislikes. We all have different values, priorities, desires, fears, interpersonal relationships, spiritual beliefs, and pain thresholds. Hospice Interdisciplinary Teams (IDT) take all these things into consideration and work to provide care that improves quality of life for each individual patient – […]
Since 1964, February has been designated as American Heart Month. With heart disease the leading cause of death in the United States, American Heart Month aims to help prevent the disease by encouraging everyone to adopt a healthy lifestyle While prevention of heart disease and reducing the number of new diagnoses are important, nearly half […]
Lower Cape Fear LifeCare (LCFL), formerly Lower Cape Fear Hospice, defines LifeCare as access to healthcare that provides people with a spectrum of health services from palliative care through hospice care, at any point in their lives, wherever they call home. LifeCare also provides support and education to loved ones and caregivers throughout the stages […]
Hospice and Palliative Care can help you keep your loved one at home during the holidays. As the song goes: “There’s no place like home for the holidays.” Surrounded by family and friends, celebrating the season, sharing meals and memories – home is where the heart is. Many times, people put off making the […]
November is National Hospice and Palliative Care Month During National Hospice and Palliative Care month, our goal is to help inform individuals and families of their options for care. Knowing not only what type of care is available, but also which care is right at which time, is invaluable information when making healthcare choices. […]
Lower Cape Fear LifeCare is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing access to the highest quality LifeCare, education, and supportive services to our patients, their families, and the communities we serve.
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Lower Cape Fear LifeCare
1414 Physicians Drive
Wilmington, NC 28401
910.796.7900 or 800.733.1476
FAX: 910.796.7901
On January 1, 2020, Lower Cape Fear Hospice formally changed its name to Lower Cape Fear LifeCare to better represent the spectrum of care and support they provide those in our community.
