CareAcademy Blog

APRIL 30, 2025

In 2022, 17.3% At the heart of a hospice care is its staff, including nurses, doctors, social workers, and chaplains. Services such as end-of-life planning and bereavement support are integral, aiding families and caregivers in coping with grief and loss. Statistics indicate that this figure will rise to 22% by 2050.

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Hospice News

JULY 9, 2024

North Carolina-based Hospice of Davidson County (HODC) will soon unveil a summer grief camp for bereaved children and teens. Dubbed Camp Comfort, the new grief program launches this Thursday for children in 1st through 5th grade. It’s a setting with a sole purpose of learning about grief and the support resources available to them.”

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Hospice News

JANUARY 22, 2024

Social workers have an increasingly important role to play in breaking down barriers among underserved populations, including misconceptions about hospice that can deter or dampen utilization. Social workers are advocates for patient-centered care,” Bleiberg told Hospice News.

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The Caregiving Years Training Academy

JANUARY 11, 2025

You’ll become a Caregiving or Grief Facilitator. Become a Caregiving or Grief Facilitator Our Certified Caregiving Facilitator training program provides you with the skills and tools you need to effectively lead a support group meeting for family caregivers and former family caregivers. Her father died in July 2023.

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Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2023

An estimated 1 in 13 children experienced such a loss before adulthood in 2022, up from an average of 14 in 2021, according to annual CBEM reports from the Judi’s House/JAG Institute. We’ve found that connection with other peers who have experienced a similar type of loss has been the real beauty of a lot of these grief support programs.”

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Hospice News

JUNE 7, 2024

Up until we became Medicare certified in September 2022, we were licensed as a hospice but all of our hospice services delivered were supported through philanthropy and fundraising. Our grief counseling has flowed into crisis interventions in the community, at the school and the hospital for families with terrible losses in their family.

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High Peaks Hospice

MARCH 2, 2022

High Peaks Hospice Celebrates National Social Worker Month from March 1-31st. Hospice Social Worker. As a hospice social worker, it is common to have conversations that revolve around anticipatory grief. When discussing anticipatory grief, I like to use the “ball in the jar” metaphor.

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

HopeHealth provides home care, hospice, palliative and dementia care, as well as caregiver and grief support services. I started advocating pretty early on that I thought it would be really beneficial to form a separate, dedicated team of nurses, physicians, social workers and chaplains to take part in this care.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

She was a prior guest with Rachelle Bernacki on our most listened to podcast of 2022, Should We Shift from Advanced Care Planning to Serious Illness Conversations? Alex: She’s also associate professor at Massachusetts General Hospital in Harvard Medical School. Welcome back to GeriPal, Juliet. Juliet: Great, thank you.

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