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Meet The Caring Award Winners: Caregiving Program, Caring Leaders, Grief Program

The Caregiving Years Training Academy

A group of dedicated care professionals in Boise, Idaho, who believe that seniors and their families deserve and need access to free, quality information provided by industry experts in their community to support their aging and caregiving questions and needs. LEARN won in the Caregiving Program category. Join us on June 14 at 7 p.m.

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

Hospice News

The film provides a window into what hospices actually do, as well as the experience of families whose loved ones are nearing end of life, the challenges of caregiving and grief that often begins long before the patient dies, according to Jonathan Fleece, CEO of Empath Health. “I

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Are You at Risk for Caregiver PTSD?

Home Sweet Home In-Home Care

If you provide care for a senior loved one, you’re at risk for caregiver PTSD! PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) can arise after any traumatic event or experience. This inattention to caregiver PTSD happens because the individual receiving care is normally the primary focus of both healthcare providers and the family at large.

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Mettle Health Stepping Up Clinical Education

Hospice News

They established Mettle to provide a unique model of patient and caregiver support — counseling by interdisciplinary palliative care clinicians. We go beyond the norm of palliative, hospice or caregiving support programs, so we don’t really have a box to define and label ourselves,” Dolan told Hospice News. “We Hospice News photo.)

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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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Preventing Burnout Among Palliative Care Employees

Hospice News

There can be long hours, higher caseloads, patient/caregiver heightened emotions that lead to higher levels of stress than in other medical care settings.” The need to roll with the nearly constant changes in the health care system also takes a toll, according to an executive panel from Houston Hospice. “We

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Cultivating Resilience for Caregivers

Hospice of the North Coast

In neuroscience, it is said that resilience does not imply accepting and resigning to the disturbing situation; it is the ability to be flexible, endure adversity, and recover from events of great uncertainty and extreme situations that arise in life. Here are 10 tips for building your resilience: 1. Freedom is as simple as that.