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Hospices Partner with After-Loss Services to Bolster Grief Support

Hospice News

White serves as bereavement coordinator and chaplain at Kansas-based Interim HealthCare of Topeka. Interim is a national franchisor of home care, home health, hospice and medical staffing services and a portfolio company of Caring Brands International.

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

Hospice News

Other stakeholders will include hospice and palliative care providers, as well as hospital-based practitioners, along with various other subject matter experts in the field, Wodatch stated. It’s a much different skill set than caring for a terminally-ill adult with adult children.”

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Phoenix Children’s Palliative Chief: Shift the Culture in Health Care

Hospice News

And that’s really palliative care.” Working in hospice care as well, she began to see the benefits of having difficult conversations and making important care decisions before the patient was in hospice. “We We weren’t always working in a crisis mode,” Shaw said.

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Coping with Caregiver Guilt

Traditions Health

If youre a caregiver for someone whos disabled, seriously ill, or in hospice care, you know all too well the conflicting emotions that go along with that role, from fulfillment and joy to exhaustion and, oftentimes, guilt. But you arent alone: The 2020 Caregiving in the U.S.