Gerry, First Nations
Gerry Martin is a former nurse and a student of traditional Aboriginal healing methods. He is from the Mattagami First Nation of Ojibways in Northeastern Ontario.
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Click Here- Helping people talk about loss (2:34)
- Talking about death at end of life (2:10)
- Maintaining hope and moving through grief (2:31)
- Honoring a person as they are dying (2:18)
- Many First Nations Elders want to die at home (2:14)
- Embrace your memories (1:11)
- Self-care (1:58)
- Show compassion until the last breath (2:15)
- Gestures and beliefs that can help with grief (1:32)
- Death is not the end (1:19)
- Challenging the health system to honour culturally safer care (1:39)
- How can we best care for you? (1:39)
- Walk with a person at end of life (1:31)
- Accompanying and Elder and her family as she transitioned to the spirit world (4:13)
- When a child dies (1:34)
- Talking about end of life can help to bring comfort (2:35)
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