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Hospices Partner with After-Loss Services to Bolster Grief Support

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Bereaved families often face tremendous challenges fielding a barrage of tasks following a loved ones’ death, according to Grant Marylander, grief counselor at Trail Winds Hospice, which provides adult and pediatric hospice and palliative care. White serves as bereavement coordinator and chaplain at Kansas-based Interim HealthCare of Topeka.

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Anatomy of Hospice Grief Camps for Children

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Aside from parental losses, children who attend summer grief programs have often experienced the loss of a grandparent or a sibling, according to Jasmine Kendrick, grief counselor and social worker at Angela Hospice. That’s among the innovative programs that we’re doing to do more for families.

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Bill Would Create New State-Level Pediatric Hospice, Palliative Care Program

Hospice News

When you’re looking to build this service you have to have enough people to choose from, and we are really struggling right now in the nursing workforce, social workers, and other support staff – especially since the pandemic hit,” Wodatch told Hospice News. Keeping the staff’s skills honed for less demand is challenging.

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7 Simple Ways to Get Organized for Hospice Nurses

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For instance, if you have a patient with a lot of family “drama,” you might want to get the social worker involved so you can focus on providing nursing care while the social worker focuses on social issues. Interdisciplinary Team.