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

Actually I should have been a social worker. They have social workers for emotional, psychological support. That’s definitely a hurdle to get across. The enormous weight that grief will put on us from the moment of diagnosis. You know, grief is a whole bunch of emotions, all rolled up into one package.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

So another big component of this program is, just like hospice volunteers in the community, we have hospice volunteers/workers who are peers from the incarcerated population who receive extensive training on how to sit with people, how to communicate, how to listen, how to protect themselves upon from the grief and loss that comes from this job.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

You’d imagine though that our professional expertise and experiences in helping patients and families cope with loss and grief would be helpful in managing our own personal losses. A great website for dealing with loss and grief : refugeingrief.com. Loss is the thing that triggers grief and then we talk about grief.

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The Chaplain's Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

He had declined a chaplain for support as well as our social worker. With Frank though it had taken a year just to get the point where we could talk about his grief. He had definitely improved, but still had a long way to go. Frank was a military veteran, though at first he never talked about his service.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Keri: We definitely have a case. Keri: Definitely, yes. Definitely a deviation. We don’t think of people as linearly going through the stages of grief anymore, but we understand that anger is an important piece of that for people. Eric: Three steps. Okay, I’m looking forward to this. Eric: Oh yeah. Keri: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

Social pain and loneliness. How definitions bind us, for example the division between chronic pain and palliative pain in much of the US. Somehow we were not very limited by definitions. Definitions can be shackles. Raj: We are not limited by definitions because we started our first non non-government organization.

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Living With Hospice

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

So, as kids would say, definitely my bad! My immediate thought was that while we do answer those questions in an episode here on the podcast. Unfortunately, typically, I'm wrong and I have not been clear in the fact that the topic that I'm covering came from a listeners question. And we do get those once in a while.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

If you look back to some of my cartoons from late in residency, they showed just how dehumanized I felt and definitely give windows into how dehumanized I imagined my patients to be. And the hospital administrator says, “No, the hospital definitely values your contributions to the interdisciplinary team. Nathan: Yeah.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2022

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. If passed, it provides funding for bereavement programs to expand their services and reach people who might not otherwise have access to grief and support services.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Yeah, I think we took a pretty broad definition in the article, but really it’s any failure to communicate clearly and adequately. To me, that’s the definition of miscommunication. ” [laughter] Alex: Poor ICU doctors, you’re getting a lot of grief today. Will you please answer the question for us?

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Definitely. If they don’t have proper systems of support to be able to talk about what they’ve experienced, — to be able to actually process and move forward with their grief — they are going to stay in a continuous cycle. Guaranteed Founder Jessica McGlory. That’s what we’re looking for.

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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. If you’re really a, a healthcare worker is really struggling. .

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Our listeners will be familiar with Anne Kelly, who’s a social worker at the San Francisco VA, on the palliative care service, who wrote a JAMA piece of my mind title The Last Visit. As I went through my grief process, journaling and writing was not something I did. Eric: Alex, we got a full house today. Anne: Hi, guys.

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