About Marty Hogan
Marty is a native North
Carolinian and received
her Masters of Social Work
degree from the University
of North Carolina in Chapel
Hill in 1975. She has worked
in a variety of settings,
including state agencies offering services to
abused and neglected children, the mentally ill
and the developmentally disabled.
While living in North Carolina, Marty worked
with oncology patients at the University of
North Carolina Hospital and at the Duke
University Medical Center as the kidney
transplant and dialysis social worker.
After moving with her husband and three
children to Bend, Oregon in 1993, Marty joined
Central Oregon Home Health Agency as a social
worker. There, she helped train staff and to
establish a hospice program in 1999 which
continues today.
Marty moved to Ashland, Oregon in 2000,
where she joined the Providence Hospice
team as a hospice social worker. She has
established and facilitated numerous support
groups for bereaved persons, including a group
for young widows.
Her professional credentials include
membership in the Academy of Certified Social
Workers, the National Association of Social
Workers and certification as a Licensed Clinical
Social Worker.
Marty is a native North
Carolinian and received
her Masters of Social Work
degree from the University
of North Carolina in Chapel
Hill in 1975. She has worked
in a variety of settings,
including state agencies offering services to
abused and neglected children, the mentally ill
and the developmentally disabled.
While living in North Carolina, Marty worked
with oncology patients at the University of
North Carolina Hospital and at the Duke
University Medical Center as the kidney
transplant and dialysis social worker.
After moving with her husband and three
children to Bend, Oregon in 1993, Marty joined
Central Oregon Home Health Agency as a social
worker. There, she helped train staff and to
establish a hospice program in 1999 which
continues today.
Marty moved to Ashland, Oregon in 2000,
where she joined the Providence Hospice
team as a hospice social worker. She has
established and facilitated numerous support
groups for bereaved persons, including a group
for young widows.
Her professional credentials include
membership in the Academy of Certified Social
Workers, the National Association of Social
Workers and certification as a Licensed Clinical
Social Worker.
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About Sacred Vigil Press and the Booklets
In nearly 14 years as a hospice and home care social worker, I have
provided emotional care and support to hundreds of hospice
families. I have needed written materials on the form of a booklet,
which I could hand to a family caregiver and say "Read this. It will
help guide you through." There were no such booklet that I was
able to find that were concise yet comprehensive. Believe me, I
looked.
I wrote Sacred Vigil as a gentle guide for the family caregiver
through the vigil with a dying loved one. In it are suggestions for
ways to enhance the dying process, physically, emotionally and
spiritually. It's about being present in the moment, bearing witness
to their death and to your own grief.
Telling My Life's Story is the second in the series and is a guide to
conducting a life review with the hospice patient. I recently used
this new booklet at an in-service training I did for a group of
hospice volunteers and they were excited and enthusiastic about
using it to give hospice patients the opportunity to review and
record the events of their lifetime.
If I Should Die...The Dying Process is the third in my series of
resource booklets for hospice professionals, patients and their
caregivers. This booklet not only discusses the emotional, mental,
spiritual and physical changes, signs and symptoms of approaching
death, it also suggests concrete, useful things that the family
caregiver can do to make their loved one’s last days and hours more
comfortable.
Dreams Visions and Visitations of the Dying is my fourth booklet.
On numerous occasions I have found myself retelling comforting
stories of patients who have experienced extraordinary dreams,
visions or visitations to hospice patients or family members who are
fearful of death. My booklet addresses this phenomenon directly
and recounts real experiences which my hospice patients have
shared with me.
In nearly 14 years as a hospice and home care social worker, I have
provided emotional care and support to hundreds of hospice
families. I have needed written materials on the form of a booklet,
which I could hand to a family caregiver and say "Read this. It will
help guide you through." There were no such booklet that I was
able to find that were concise yet comprehensive. Believe me, I
looked.
I wrote Sacred Vigil as a gentle guide for the family caregiver
through the vigil with a dying loved one. In it are suggestions for
ways to enhance the dying process, physically, emotionally and
spiritually. It's about being present in the moment, bearing witness
to their death and to your own grief.
Telling My Life's Story is the second in the series and is a guide to
conducting a life review with the hospice patient. I recently used
this new booklet at an in-service training I did for a group of
hospice volunteers and they were excited and enthusiastic about
using it to give hospice patients the opportunity to review and
record the events of their lifetime.
If I Should Die...The Dying Process is the third in my series of
resource booklets for hospice professionals, patients and their
caregivers. This booklet not only discusses the emotional, mental,
spiritual and physical changes, signs and symptoms of approaching
death, it also suggests concrete, useful things that the family
caregiver can do to make their loved one’s last days and hours more
comfortable.
Dreams Visions and Visitations of the Dying is my fourth booklet.
On numerous occasions I have found myself retelling comforting
stories of patients who have experienced extraordinary dreams,
visions or visitations to hospice patients or family members who are
fearful of death. My booklet addresses this phenomenon directly
and recounts real experiences which my hospice patients have
shared with me.
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