Hospice News
MARCH 19, 2024
The legislation comes at a time of critical need for supportive services, according to Kerry Moss, palliative care division head at Connecticut Children’s. The pediatric provider launched its palliative care services roughly a decade ago, Moss said. So expanding the bill to include palliative care will be important.”
Hospice News
OCTOBER 6, 2023
Illinois-based Great Lakes Health Partners, an Interim Healthcare franchise, is launching a grief support group for employees aimed at helping hospice workers deal with the stress of providing bedside end-of-life care. Can you tell me more about the types of grief support a program such as this offers hospice workers?
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Hospice News
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
Palliative care organizations that integrate employee feedback into their staff development policies have a fighting chance in battling ongoing burnout and turnover in the field. The palliative care workforce is facing a wide range of challenges that impact their ability to thrive in the field.
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. These debriefings create a safe outlet for health care professionals to talk about the feelings resulting from their work. Turns out, it’s maybe not.
GeriPal
MAY 12, 2022
Rajagopal (goes by “Raj”), one of the pioneers of palliative care in India. Raj is an anesthesiologist turned palliative care doctor. He is also author of the book, “ Walk with the Weary: Lessons in Humanity in Health Care ,” and was featured in this Atlantic article. Community-based palliative care networks .
GeriPal
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
Holly Prigerson recalls the moments in which she started investigating prolonged grief disorder. She recalls being “a social scientist [Holly] in room full of psychiatrists,” who recognized a diagnostic gap in people experiencing profound and potentially harmful grief far after the death of a loved one. Summary Transcript Summary.
GeriPal
APRIL 28, 2022
Nathan is a Palliative Care doctor and an assistant professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. He uses comics and other artwork to share his experiences in palliative care and educate others about topics like empathy and communication skills. We’ve had two podcast already on poems in both aging and in palliative care.
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