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Grief Coach Rebrands to Help Texts, Launches Health Care Worker Support Service

Hospice News

The bereavement care tech platform Grief Coach has rebranded as Help Texts and is expanding its services to include support for health care workers who are contending with stress or burnout. The company convened a group of professionals with experience in grief care to develop the content, from a variety of disciplines.

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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. Have a book suggestion? Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book, yet his words live on as a guide to us all.

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5 Myths About Kids and Grief

Solace

Those kids under 13 make up 70 percent of bereaved children. Our societal taboos about grief and death and our well-meaning but sometimes misplaced fears about exposing children to death can make it difficult for kids to find their way through their personal grief journeys. Grief looks like all kinds of things.

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What to Expect From Bereavement Services and Support

Seasons Hospice

Often, the bereaved are left feeling alone and unsure of what to do next. Some people may do their best to work through the grief process on their own terms. Often times though, bereavement services and support can be very helpful in the healing process. What Exactly Are Bereavement Services and Support.

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Studying the Connections in Carbs, Casseroles and Grief

Solace

When I became an adult and moved away from home she gifted me with a recipe book filled with my favorite things that she made so I would know how to make them myself. Cann dedicated her book “Dying to Eat” to her mother who died in 1997, explaining that “food was her language of love” and her inspiration. Food is a gift’.

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Kindness: The Ultimate Gift

Elaine Mansfield

After the group settled, I read from my book Leaning into Love: A Spiritual Journey through Grief and told stories about my husband Vic’s death and my struggle to create a fulfilling life without him. I know it’s natural to discuss grief in a hushed voice, but I want to hear you.” I greeted people as they arrived.

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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Body Disposal, Funeral (Video 5:45)

Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

Unfortunately, research studies have not focused on outcomes and support for bereaved people during a pandemic. Research on the impact of COVID -19 grief and bereavement during other infectious disease outbreaks such as pandemics have tended to focus on survivors who had the illness and recovered.