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How to Expand Your Agency Ecosystem of Care to Support Pediatric Home Health

AlayaCare

Home care agencies across the nation are, as the pandemic has deftly demonstrated, becoming increasingly integral pieces of the health-care ecosystem. Together we’re watching the demand grow, the list of potential in-home services expand , the benefits evol ve, and of course the population age. But at the other end of that population are clients in need of much more support: children.

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The Art of Forgiveness

Hope Hospice

By Reverend Amina Wolf , MA, DMin. Republished with permission from Presence : An International Journal of Spiritual Direction (first published in Vol. 26, no. 3; September 2020). When I was just starting as a Hospice Chaplain, I used to ask people I visited whether they had any forgiveness issues. Surprisingly, many people answered this intrusive question.

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Is Death Often More Pleasant Than We Imagine? (Research, Good Death Video 2:49)

Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

Many people, even some who work in healthcare, believe that death is always something to dread. Are they right? Is death as bad as many people imagine it will be? Two near-death research studies compared the affective experience of people facing imminent death with that of people imagining imminent death. Interesting results of these studies are the following: The first study revealed that blog posts of near-death patients with cancer and sclerosis were more positive and less negative than the s