Shining Light Hospice

MARCH 27, 2023

Hospice physicians may also have additional certifications such as geriatrics, oncology, or palliative care to demonstrate their knowledge of this field. Consistent exposure to death can lead to stress responses like grief fatigue, nightmares, guilt trips, and survivor’s remorse which should not go ignored.

Hospice care 96

Hospice care Hospice Grief End-of-life care 96

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Check out the Pub Crawl GeriPal post for more info, and follow #HPMParty on Twitter to keep us as we crawl! ** In the last several years, I’ve seen more and more articles about end-of-life doulas ( like this NY Times article from 2021 ). Despite this, in my 20-year career as a palliative care physician, I have yet to see a death doula in the wild.

Hospice volunteer 246

Hospice volunteer Presentation Palliative care Palliate 246

Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

He, there’s so much focus given to bereavement and grief as well, and he fears that again, there’s just not enough thought giving to what that dying person themselves is going through, whether they’re afraid to die with any secrets surrounded by platitudes. So that’ll be the cough and all of that stuff.

Books 72

Books Bereavement Hospice Grief 72

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Holly Prigerson recalls the moments in which she started investigating prolonged grief disorder. She recalls being “a social scientist [Holly] in room full of psychiatrists,” who recognized a diagnostic gap in people experiencing profound and potentially harmful grief far after the death of a loved one. Summary Transcript Summary.

Grief 192

Grief Bereavement Geriatrics Definition 192