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Hunterdon Hospice’s Relaunches Trauma-Informed Bereavement Program

Hospice News

These deaths can be traumatizing and bring on complicated grief experiences, with some individuals needing greater support compared to other types of losses, according to Laura Suozzo, licensed clinical social worker and bereavement coordinator at Hunterdon Hospice. “We Their sadness is so raw and painful.

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End-of-Life Doulas’ Growing Value Proposition in Hospice

Hospice News

Other health care providers, upstream of hospice, are also engaging doula services as well, such as assisted living and skilled nursing facilities, she said. Curd is also a licensed clinical social worker, and serves as a therapist at Red Wheelbarrow Counseling LLC and BetterHelp.

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Hospices Partner with After-Loss Services to Bolster Grief Support

Hospice News

Marylander is also a licensed clinical social worker and practiced law for 35 years prior to stepping into health care. One of the greatest challenges facing bereaved families when a loved one dies is the lack of a will or other estate planning tool (for example, living trust),” Marylander told Hospice News in an email.

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Nonprofit Startup Emmaus Catholic Hospice: Supportive Culture Key to ‘Rapid Growth’

Hospice News

Owens: We are a home hospice provider and take care of patients wherever they call home, whether it’s with family or in their own home or at a skilled nursing, memory care or assisted living facility. My concern is still around the ability to recruit health care workers with the environment of nursing and doctor turnover and burnout.

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5 Strategies for Strengthening Referral Relationships in Post-Acute Care

Home Care Pulse

Their social worker calls with four new referrals to begin hospice services. Take a deep breath, respect the social worker who must have reasons behind their expressed needs and wants, and dig deeper. Consider this scenario: You are an Admissions Director at a new assisted living memory care unit.

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GeriPal Special: Hopes and Worries for Hospice and Palliative Care

GeriPal

Attendee 14: I am most hopeful that as palliative caregivers, we will continue to authentically welcome the voices of our interprofessional team members, chaplains, social workers, and so we have true interprofessional collaboration. Eric: Here’s our contact information. Eric: Buying GeriPal podcasts. Alex: Nursing homes.

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Decluttering the Decades

Chicago Caregiving

Whether your surviving parent is moving to a studio apartment at an assisted living community, a downsized ranch, or a bedroom in your home, help them envision some of their belongings in it, says Marnie Dawson, owner of Dawson Relocation Services in Chicago. Map their new place. In my opinion, that’s what matters,” he says.

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