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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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Poetry & Palliative Care: Podcast with Mike Rabow and Redwing Keyssar

GeriPal

To the deeper emotions – of loss and grief, of wonder and transcendence – that are at the heart of the complex care we provide. Loss, Losing and Loosening, poetry for grief and loss . This is how the heart makes a duet of wonder and grief. And along the way, we really felt like we got to the heart of things.

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Episode 37: Closing the Books

Living With Hospice

There are cultures where saying goodbye and sending a loved one off to the next world is a series of very big and quite significant events filled with tradition, and reverence, big gatherings, big meals, people come from far and near ceremonies that well, you know, the whole shebang in our society. For some reason, they always put it off.

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Episode 24: How Do I Get Off this Emotional Roller-coaster?

Living With Hospice

Add in the crazy world events around us, and it can be over whelming. Let's start with the fact that there is a real thing called the grief cycle or the grief process. You know, there are five basic steps to the grief cycle, there's denial, there's anger, there's bargaining. They know what the grief process is like.

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