Hospice News
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
All hospices provide some form of bereavement care after a patient dies, but many families need help with anticipatory grief as well. What is anticipatory grief? It’s the feelings of loss, grief and anxiety that happened before death when you know there’s a death coming.
Hospice News
JANUARY 10, 2025
More professionals from a wider range of interfaith groups are entering the field, according to Shana Sullivan, bereavement coordinator of Texas-based Heart to Heart Hospice. We need chaplains trained in hospice and palliative care philosophy who know tons about medical ethics, goals of care and complex bereavement.
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Hospice News
AUGUST 2, 2024
New Jersey-based Hunterdon Hospice has relaunched its bereavement program aimed at supporting loved ones who have experienced a traumatic loss. This [program] provides that extra support for people and just widens their network of bereavement support. Set to restart on Aug. Their sadness is so raw and painful.
Hospice News
OCTOBER 7, 2024
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. The nonprofit provides hospice services across 10 counties in its service area and also offers bereavement and veteran programs.
Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
Greater education and preparation around the logistical aspects of death and bereavement is needed to better support grieving families. 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.
Hospice News
JUNE 24, 2022
A proliferating number of startups is developing tech solutions and services to support bereaved families, employing a range of business models — including partnerships with hospices. There’s never going to be enough hospice bereavement coordinators to make sure every single person gets what they need.
Hospice News
JANUARY 9, 2023
The bereavement care tech platform Grief Coach has rebranded as Help Texts and is expanding its services to include support for health care workers who are contending with stress or burnout. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) requirement that hospices provide bereavement care for 13 months following a patient’s death.
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