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‘Innovative Opportunities’ Exist in Growing Need for Trauma-Informed Bereavement Care

Hospice News

Shaping their grief support programs with this trend in mind will be pivotal to hospices ability to expand the depth and reach of their services. The community-based nonprofit provides hospice and palliative care, as well as grief support and veterans programs. from 2000 to 2010, a research analysis found.

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Hospices’ Mythbusting Strategies: ‘It’s Not Brink-of-Death Care’

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National hospice utilization rates have hovered around this vicinity for the past decade, with 44% of decedents receiving these services in 2010, the Alliance report found. More hospices reached out virtually to connect with patients and their families, including through expanded online grief programs.

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Systematic Change Needed to Support Family Caregivers of Hospice Patients

Hospice News

At the same time, the ratio of potential caregivers to seriously ill seniors is expected to shrink to 4-to-1 by 2023, a “sharp decline” from 7-to-1 in 2010, AARP reported. Caregivers need practical support and guidance for their experience of taking care of this person, and for their emotional, anticipatory grief they’re feeling.

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How Death Doulas Can Help Hospices Improve Health Equity

Hospice News

The home health and hospice nonprofit provider began offering end-of-life doula services in 2010 and currently has 75 of these trained volunteers, Sancilio said. Doulas can help improve hospice’s ability to support patients and families during their most vulnerable final moments, she stated.

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New CMOs for Hospice of the Chesapeake, Care Synergy; HopeWest Taps New VP

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He served in the same role prior to that at Optum Hospice since 2010. In addition to hospice, HopeWest also provides palliative care and grief support services across an 8,000 square-mile region of western Colorado. Howe has more than 14 years of experience in hospice. He was previously medical director at Compassus since 2017.

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Hospice of the Panhandle Taps New CEO; New Strategy Director Appointed at Unity Hospice

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She began as a nurse at the hospice in 2010, and started her career at Berkeley Medical Center in 2008 as a primary nurse and charge nurse in the progressive care unit. Proceeds from the stores fund its grief program, Wings of Hope Family Bereavement Camps, and also help support hospice patients and families with special needs.

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My Forest Is a Graveyard

Elaine Mansfield

Willow & Elaine, 2010 We’ll soon bury Willow’s ashes in the forest with the rest of the family. My heart aches for the companion and friend who walked beside me through my hardest years of grief, but it was her time. For a post about creating a grief ritual for Leo who died in 1995, see How My Dog Taught Me the Art of Ritual.

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