NHPCO

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Expanded definition of the IDT: The legislation will allow hospices, starting in 2024, to use marriage and family therapists (MFTs) and mental health counselors (MHCs) as part of the hospice interdisciplinary team. That cut was averted, protecting hospice patients and providers. It also directs the U.S.

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Hospice News

MARCH 2, 2023

We’re definitely seeing an increase in resale shop sales,” Hospice & Community Care CEO Jennifer Graham told Hospice News. This can include more robust grief programs or palliative care, among others. We also use these funds to support bereavement programs.”

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The Nurse Break

DECEMBER 4, 2022

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. The Salt Path is an honest and life-affirming true story of coming to terms with grief and the healing power of the natural world.

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Hospice News

JULY 22, 2022

Many come striving for change after witnessing loved ones receive poor end-of-life care or enduring bereavement without support. In time, the organization expanded to include the virtual Deathfolx platform, its Deathschool program, and an online grief community. Merelli: We wanted to bridge the gap to death.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2022

Another piece of legislation is a bereavement bill. People’s experience of loss and grief in the last couple of years with the pandemic has been intensified and amplified in ways that no one‘s really experienced before. It’s not that the benefit was bad or wrong, it’s just a question of whether it is really the right definition.

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NHPCO

JUNE 21, 2023

Research also shows that hospice care—at any length of stay—benefits patients, family members, and caregivers, including increased satisfaction and quality of life, improved pain control, reduced physical and emotional distress, and reduced prolonged grief and other emotional distress.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 14, 2022

That’s definitely a hurdle to get across. I can’t fix you through the death and support in the bereavement process. The enormous weight that grief will put on us from the moment of diagnosis. We begin grieving that, you know, tech, technically the word is anticipatory grief. This is what normal grief is like.

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The Chaplain's Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

I initially started calling Frank for bereavement support but found I couldn’t get very far. Was I a bereavement counselor, a chaplain, a friend, or a therapist? Typically in hospice we offer to follow folks for a year for bereavement. He had definitely improved, but still had a long way to go.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

I think there’s definitely a stigma that, like you said, we just all wanna be fixers and we almost don’t wanna take advantage of that, that thought that, oh, the things I did weren’t enough, or I, I wasn’t able to to really fix that person. And I think it’s the mystery of it that scares us so much.

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Sahara Hospice Care

OCTOBER 29, 2021

But those feelings can definitely be forgiven! The Gift of Doulas for Grief. A lot of hospice patients have many resentments from their past and sometimes refuse to see someone who have hurt them in the past. This is totally understandable as us humans have feelings that can never be forgotten! What is the Role of a Hospice Chaplain?

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