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Keys to Discussing ‘Hard Realities’ in Pediatric Advance Care Planning Conversations

Hospice News

Researchers reviewed electronic medical record data for nearly 2,000 adolescents and young adults who died between 2003 and 2019. When their last documented goals of care were evaluated, 69% of these patients chose care that focused on palliation, the study found.

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18 best books for nurses about grief, death and loss

The Nurse Break

18 best books for nurses about grief, death and loss. Processing grief can be a significant challenge to those directly experiencing loss and their loved ones. Several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ill. When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi.

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Butterflies, Dreams, and Marion Woodman

Elaine Mansfield

Marion Woodman and Elaine 2003. I awaken with gratitude for Marion and grief about her death in 2018. We don’t want Marion’s insights about the sacredness of nature and soul to be washed away in a materialistic, violent world. Marion’s laugh is musical, sweet and joyful. She can’t do this sacred work alone. She needs help.

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Finding the Sacred Feminine: Lessons from India

Elaine Mansfield

She and the few other devotees were silent, somber, and grief-stricken. with Marion Woodman, 2003. A few of Sri Sankara’s closest disciples sat near an empty palanquin (a small litter) where the sage had slept when on pilgrimage. Sita-Ma, an older women disciple, sat on a cement platform. The litter would soon be moved, too.

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Hospice CEO, Chief Compliance Officer Collaborations Key to Quality

Hospice News

That year, Roa took the helm at Avow Hospice, overseeing the growth of its palliative and hospice programs, along with its pediatric grief and veterans programs. Ervin joined Avow Hospice in 2003, working in various clinical and non-clinical roles.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

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And in 2003, I formed Pallium India with several colleagues with the national agenda, because still then the growth was mostly conveyed to Kerala and a couple of metropolitan cities. The number of people who go into depression in the pathological grief is not reported. Grief and depression do not show up on MRI scans.