Hospice News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Connecticut-based Regional Hospice recently opened a new grief support center to extend its bereavement services further across the state’s northwestern region. The opening expands upon the nonprofit hospice’s existing bereavement services, according to Regional Hospice President and CEO Cynthia Emiry Roy. “We

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Hospice News

MARCH 7, 2025

Our services will include the standard hospice functions such as individual bereavement care and volunteer-based therapy, but we also have grief support groups. We are also in the process of putting together a one-day caregiver retreat. Its understanding different family dynamics, psychosocial supports and caregiver needs.

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Hospice News

MARCH 4, 2023

Technology firms Empathy and Sharecare (NASDAQ: SHCR) have partnered to expand the benefits that companies can offer to bereaved employees. Through this partnership, employees will be able to access Empathy’s bereavement support services through ShareCare’s home home-oriented product, CareLinx.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 30, 2024

Arkansas-based Hospice of the Ozarks has launched a non-medical care training program to improve caregiving support. The hospice’s new Care Coaching program is being offered at no cost to family caregivers. Patients do not need to be hospice eligible for caregivers to receive these services.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Avanlee Care has teamed up with Walmart (NYSE:WMT) to allow families in certain markets to order groceries, health or pharmacy products from the retail giant’s stores through its caregiver support mobile app. Christine said her drive to establish Avanlee grew out of her personal experience with caregiving.

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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.

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2024

Given the crucial role that caregivers play in families, their well-being is central to palliative care, and providers need to assist these caregivers by developing sustainable models of support for them. In 2021, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared caregiving to be an incipient public health issue.

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AT Home Care & Hospice

MARCH 10, 2025

Our bereavement support team provides critical emotional and psychological assistance to families, caregivers, and loved ones, ensuring they are not alone in The post Beyond the Bedside: The Unseen Impact of Hospice Bereavement Care appeared first on AT Home Care & Hospice.

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Adobe Hospice & Home Health

MARCH 10, 2025

Our bereavement support team provides critical emotional and psychological assistance to families, caregivers, and loved ones, ensuring they are not alone in The post Beyond the Bedside: The Unseen Impact of Hospice Bereavement Care appeared first on Abode Hospice & Home Health.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2024

Greater access to advance care planning services can lead to improved caregiver satisfaction and reduced health care costs at the end of life. It’s a huge way to increase satisfaction, because we can make sure we’re facilitating advance care planning discussions between our patients and their caregivers.” Only 10.9%

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

HGA is very fortunate to have Jame on our team Established in 1987, Hospice of Gladwin Area provides services at no cost to patients and their caregivers. The nonprofit offers hospice, respite services, spiritual and bereavement support, as well as assistance with housekeeping, medical equipment and other supplies.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 9, 2025

VITAS will also offer veteran services, respiratory therapy and bereavement care, among other services that address their physical, spiritual and psychosocial needs. Cherish Hospice has 25 caregiver employees and operates a volunteer program. Patients at the new facility will receive round-the-clock hospice care.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

So their caregivers did focus groups. And so it was really the patients, you know, the caregivers, the family members were the ones who were sort of the closest in observing. And they had to have a family caregiver. And then we enrolled patients and caregivers. NCP guideline, standard consultation. Our consultation.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In many instances, hospices will not be able to provide care if patients lack the support of a family caregiver. Louis, is currently researching behavioral interventions to enhance the lives of caregivers for family members with advanced illnesses. You’ve personally been a caregiver yourself.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary The proportion of people living with dementia who identify as Black/African Americans is on the rise , and so too are the proportion of caregivers who identify as Black/African American. Why a focus on Black/African American caregivers and people with dementia? We talk in particular about: Terminology.

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Traditions Health

JANUARY 5, 2025

They will consider a patients condition and wishes, along with the preferences of the family and caregivers, to recommend the best one. Training family caregivers on ways to care for their loved ones during this time. The hospice team will complete a comprehensive assessment of the patient.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The house is designed for terminally ill patients whose residences are not suitable for routine or continuous home care, or those whose care needs are too complex for family caregivers to manage. You can be a daughter, a wife, instead of being a caregiver at home trying to manage your loved one at home.

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Traditions Health

JANUARY 12, 2025

The hospice team will meet with your family to create a personalized plan of care that considers the patients symptoms and wishes, as well as the preferences of the family and caregivers. One of the first steps is deciding where to place the bed, considering patient comfort and accessibility for caregivers.

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Hospice News

MAY 14, 2024

“[They] can provide so much support from advance care planning to vigil assistance, and out in the community they can do early grief and bereavement support and can provide household support [and] respite caregiving.” Galloway-Salazar is also an end-of-life doula.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Rebranded as Foothills Compassionate Care, the hospice provider also offers palliative care, caregiver and grief support services as well as community education and resources. Thrift store revenue is allocated to support its Sierra Community Palliative Care program and bereavement services as well as to fund caregiver grants.

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Traditions Health

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

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. But you arent alone: The 2020 Caregiving in the U.S.

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Hospice News

JULY 6, 2023

They established Mettle to provide a unique model of patient and caregiver support — counseling by interdisciplinary palliative care clinicians. We go beyond the norm of palliative, hospice or caregiving support programs, so we don’t really have a box to define and label ourselves,” Dolan told Hospice News. “We

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Hospice News

JULY 18, 2022

Additionally, bereaved family members of Black patients rated the quality of communication with hospices as lower than other health care providers. Providers should implement standardized routine patient screenings for symptom distress, functional impairment and caregiver burden, Chambers stated.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Its most recent de novo features a wraparound porch and meeting spaces for community events and bereaved families. Its launch is in part intended to ease caregiver burden, Mitchell stated. Big Bend Hospice serves eight counties across Florida, with a location in each area.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

In some respects, the two sectors are already inextricably linked, given the holistic nature of hospice care, including attention to patients’ psychosocial and spiritual needs as well as bereavement support for families. These conditions also put a burden on family caregivers, just as many medical ailments do.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 23, 2024

The new location will allow for improved support for serious and terminally ill patients that lack caregiver support or need higher levels of care, said Dr. Christopher Strzalka, medical director at Julia Hospice & Palliative Care. Delaware Hospice also provides bereavement support and nonmedical transitional services.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Its] thinking of how the next generation of employees, family caregivers and volunteers receive and process information. Public awareness campaigns that illustrate how bereavement services and dementia care programs help improve quality of life can also lead to greater discussions about hospice, according to Malko.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 1, 2024

Established nearly 45 years ago, the nonprofit offers hospice and palliative care to adult and pediatric patients, as well as grief and caregiver support, veteran services and specialized care for patients with HIV/AIDS, COPD and progressive memory impairment conditions.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

An interdisciplinary team of physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, volunteers and bereavement experts provide 24/7 care. Established in 1883 as a Visiting Nurse Association (VNA), HHHC provides home care, hospice and bereavement services, as well as caregiver resources.

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Hospice News

JUNE 7, 2024

We began offering palliative care, and strengthened our community grief counseling services, which we provide to anyone on the island in addition to individual bereavement support. Today our programs include hospice, a palliative care clinic and massage therapy for patients, caregivers and interdisciplinary staff.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Shaw’s large staff includes eight board-certified doctors, an advanced nurse practitioner, a social worker, a mental health therapist, a bereavement coordinator, a bereavement counselor, a psychologist, a nurse coordinator and a medical assistant. It started as a program, and grew into a section and, finally, a division.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2024

The faith-based nonprofit organization also has a telehospice program, which offers virtual telehealth support to hospice caregivers and patients. Terminally ill residents at the Lourdes facility who are unable to remain at home or lack caregiver support will be eligible to receive care at the inpatient hospice.

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Hospice News

JULY 1, 2022

This will make the organization’s third center for youth bereavement in the area, with additional locations in Auburndale and Sebring, Florida. The Hosparus Health Resource Center will extend bereavement services and education to underserved communities in that area.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 13, 2024

Among families’ largest unmet needs is finding pediatric palliative care providers nearby, along with care coordination and caregiver support, he indicated. The California-based nonprofit operates a pediatric palliative care center in the San Leandro area near San Francisco and offers hospice, palliative, respite and bereavement care.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Founded in 2013, the hospice and palliative care provider also offers bereavement services and veteran programs. We are honored to partner with the wonderful Southwestern team of skilled clinicians and compassionate caregivers in delivering life-changing hospice services to the residents of this community.”

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Hospice News

MARCH 2, 2023

We also use these funds to support bereavement programs.” The funds also partially defray the costs of specialized programs for veterans, pet programs, community-based palliative care and training for family caregivers, she stated. There’s many different facets of impact to a hospice resale store beyond just the revenue.”

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Hospice News

JUNE 18, 2024

For several years, the nonprofit hospice has been educating family caregivers and others in their community about the experiences of dementia patients and how to better interact with them. Florida-based Hospice of Marion County, an affiliate of Empath Health, is training first responders in its community on how to treat dementia patients.

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