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‘Suncoast’ Film Points a Lens at Hospice Families’ Experience

Hospice News

During the time that Chinn’s family was receiving care at Suncoast, the hospice was also caring for Terry Schiavo, whose story captivated much of the nation in 2005. The Terry Schaivo story is not ours to tell, but many of those components affect end-of-life care every day.

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Changing Hospice Conversation Key to Improving Caregiver Support

Hospice News

Support for family caregivers of seriously ill patients is both limited and fragmented, but changing the conversation about the end of life could fill some of the gaps. It’s a very heavy burden of caregiving to then step out and start finding the resources that they need.”.

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HopeHealth’s Expanding Scope of Pediatric Hospice, Palliative Services

Hospice News

HopeHealth has been growing its pediatric hospice and supportive care service lines in recent years to address a range of unmet needs among seriously ill children and their families. HopeHealth provides home care, hospice, palliative and dementia care, as well as caregiver and grief support services.

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Providers to Lawmakers: Hospice a ‘Huge Value to Medicare’

Hospice News

Representatives from NHPCO, NAHC, NORC, along with hospice providers VITAS Healthcare and Delaware Hospice, presented the data during the briefing. Family feedback included reports that patients received the “right amount” of pain medication and services that aligned with loved ones’ goals of care and end-of-life wishes, she added.

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A Human Rights based approach to Palliative Care: Towards Solutions for Public Health Palliative Care

EAPC (European Association of Palliative Care)

Call for Abstracts now open Abstracts are invited which present research findings or methodological contributions under the Research Seminar themes below, Public Health Palliative Care Compassionate Communities Death and grief literacy Engaging and working with patients, informal caregivers and citizens to shape palliative and end of life care, (..)

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My Loved One Is Entering Hospice, Who Can I Turn To?- Five Benefits To Grief Counseling.

Seasons Hospice

Be present. And if they don’t want to talk, simply being present can be a comfort. Hospice Caregivers Support Group. This group is open to anyone who is providing care for a hospice patient. Grief Support Group. If you are struggling with grief, there are many support groups available to help you cope.

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Episode 35: Dealing with Triggered Grief

Living With Hospice

Grief is a long process to endure when you lose someone you love. In Living With Hospice's fourth grief-centric episode, Mitch addresses the topic of grief triggers and how they can bring up that pain of loss and other emotions, sometimes even years later. Grief acknowledged is grief that is managed.

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