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Hospices Leverage School-Based Partnerships to Strengthen Bereavement Care

Hospice News

Some hospices have increasingly recognized the value of collaborating with local educators when it comes to improving community grief support for bereaved children and their families. This involves having educators weigh in the common challenges that kids experience along their grief journeys. “We The groups were a huge hit.

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Caregiver Burnout

Traditions Health

But it’s also challenging to manage all the ways you need to meet their needs, from bathing, dressing, and feeding them to managing their medications, and doctors’ appointments. Consider trying one or more of the following suggestions: Accept your feelings It’s normal to feel a range of emotions as a caregiver, from gratitude to grief.

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Caring for the Caregivers: Keys for Helping Family Members in Palliative Care Roles

Hospice News

The duties of family-member caregivers may include transportation, bill paying, dressing, bathing, and other activities of daily living, in addition to medical assistance such as medication administration. They also experience emotional and mental health issues due to lack of sleep, grief and watching the suffering of a family member.

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HSPN Staffing Summit: Leveraging Technology for Person-Centered Care

Hospice News

We also run a caregiver institute and a Full Circle grief and loss center. You’re running late and the only control that family members had all day long to help to get that good bath. I’m like many of the other nonprofit hospices across the country, doing a lot of very purpose-driven work.

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Anxiety in Late Life and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson

GeriPal

I remember you brought up something called the bathe technique. So the bathe method was sort of a purported. I was introduced to Bathe by another Bay Area palliative care, Alex. And so bathe is an acronym. And then we have Alex Sablesmith, and this is his bathe method. Alex Gamble 18:33 Yeah, absolutely.

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Treating Burnout, Trauma, and Grief with Dance

Minority Nurse

What I realized when I cared for my sister was the gift that comes from having one-on-one intimate moments with another human being—to bathe her, feed her, and help be her voice,” says Rynders. It felt like I had both my joy and my grief coupled together in all that I did.”

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Episode 27: How to Manage Grief

Living With Hospice

Revisiting this complex topic for a third time, Mitch Ware takes a deeper look into the seven stages of grief and explores how we cycle through them. We've addressed grief in two previous episodes. Well, today, we're going to take a look at a little different perspective at grief and the ways to manage it. Grief just sucks.

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