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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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 20, 2022

HAP Foundation includes a Pediatric Palliative Care program, involving a network of providers that also offers bereavement care services. “Navigating grief and finding support can be complicated and isolating. We are planning to expand Missing Pieces to address broader grief needs for more families.”

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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

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. Dozier Hospice House.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2024

Angela Hospice provides adult and pediatric hospice, palliative care and grief support across Oakland County in southern Michigan. The faith-based nonprofit organization also has a telehospice program, which offers virtual telehealth support to hospice caregivers and patients.

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Hospice News

JUNE 1, 2023

In addition to inpatient care, Hospice Ministries also offered respite services for family caregivers. The hospice facility will feature eight private rooms in a home-like setting and also offers short-term respite care for caregivers. Due to many changes in health care, the board of directors of Hospice Ministries, Inc.

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Hospice News

MARCH 2, 2023

This can include more robust grief programs or palliative care, among others. 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.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2025

The nonprofit hospice offers bereavement care, caregiver resources and supportive care for pediatric populations. Maryland-based Montgomery Hospice & Prince Georges Hospice provides grief support and spiritual counseling, veteran services and pediatric hospice care.

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Kindful Hospice

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Grief is a universal experience. How we deal with that grief, though, is very different from person to person. About 25% of people, though, take a year or two to process their grief. About 25% of people, though, take a year or two to process their grief. Grief, Illness, and Chronic Health Conditions.

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SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

JULY 3, 2017

This episode features the work of Professor David Currow et al (Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia) who describes a study which aimed to compare characteristics, expressed unmet needs and outcomes for spousal caregivers, with other caregivers at the end of life, by gender and age.

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CareAcademy Blog

APRIL 30, 2025

To operate as a hospice agency, you must provide four levels of care: Routine home care This type of care is similar to standard home health services, with caregivers visiting patients regularly to monitor health and nutrition, offer physical therapy, manage medications, and document a patients well-being and quality of life.

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SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

JUNE 25, 2020

The support needs of people experiencing bereavement vary significantly. Bereavement support in palliative care involves different types and levels of provision to accommodate these needs. Specialist grief therapy is known to be effective for those with high-level risk and needs.

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AT Home Care & Hospice

APRIL 25, 2023

A multidisciplinary team can include your doctor, spiritual counselor, social worker, and bereavement counselor to name a few. Three of these services in particular include social work, bereavement, and chaplain services. The primary purpose of bereavement counseling is to help families navigate their grief following a loss.

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Traditions Health

OCTOBER 13, 2024

In most cases, your primary caregiver is a family member or friend. You and your caregiver can also call the hospice team 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They also train your primary caregiver to assist you and give medicine. Most people choose to get hospice care at home. This person coordinates with the hospice team.

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Hope Hospice

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Through the new organization’s integrated, trans-disciplinary team-based approach to health care, patients and families will have comprehensive access to a clinically trained, compassionate team including physicians, nurses, social workers, spiritual support and bereavement counselors, home health aides, and physical and occupational therapists.

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Life & Death Matters

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

National Grief and Bereavement Day is a time to reflect on the profound impact of loss and the vital role of community support during times of grief. This day prompts us to recognize the universal nature of loss, the individual experience of grief, and the power of collective empathy and care facilitated by communities.

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Traditions Health

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Hospice care can be provided in a patient’s own home, in the home of a family member or caregiver, or in a care facility. Help Families of Patients Watching the health of a loved one decline can be extremely difficult for caregivers and families. Thus, the emotional support provided by hospice extends to family members as well.

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Caregiver Support Services

JULY 3, 2024

Step 1: Setting the Right Tone Finding joy during grief can be a daunting task, but it will help you create a meaningful celebration. The post How To Plan a Joyful Celebration of Life appeared first on Caregiver Support Services. Start by reflecting on your loved one’s happiest moments, favorite memories, and cherished hobbies.

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Hospice News

JULY 3, 2024

Maryland-based Hospice of the Chesapeake has been pursuing innovation in its bereavement and caregiver support programs. The nonprofit hospice and palliative care provider offers grief care to its entire community regardless of whether a family member was one of their patients. We will provide that short term counseling.

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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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The Bucket-List Blog

JUNE 9, 2016

Hospice’s bereavement program stayed in touch with Sue to offer support. Sue and Charlie surrounded by all the littles ones they love. “He He told me, ‘you love to dance and you love to sing. When I’m gone, you go on living. Find someone to dance with and keep on singing,’” remembers Sue.

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Hospice News

JULY 16, 2024

Fraudulent activity in the hospice space may be leaving some families without sufficient bereavement support. Victimized families are at greater risk of having complicated grief experiences, Kraus stated. The impacts of fraudulent activity in hospice on patients and their families can be devastating,” Kraus told Hospice News.

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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

JANUARY 16, 2025

More countries have adopted peer caregiving as a way to provide improved support for terminally ill incarcerated individuals, according to researcher Barry Ashpole. Community hospices have the skills that prisons could really benefit from in helping to sensitize prison staff and helping to train volunteers in grief counseling and caregiving.

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Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2023

Some hospices have found peer support to be a crucial component of their pediatric bereavement programs amid rising demand for these services. Research indicates that the number of bereaved children nationwide is growing. The organization additionally researches child bereavement services and needs.

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Responsive Home Care

JANUARY 9, 2024

By the time we reach our golden years, we’ve had many years of building deep connections with family and friends. These bonds are crucial to our quality of life, and when they are severed, it inevitably leads to feelings of deep loss.

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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. 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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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The nonprofit hospice provider also offers palliative care, grief support and advance care planning services. 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.

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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. From just the abstracts we had so many questions.

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The Bucket-List Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Our stories about meaningful experiences are written as they unfold. Therefore, most stories are in the present tense. Some of the patients in these stories are no longer with us. They, and their families, gave us permission to share their experience with you.

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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 Hospice News photo.)

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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

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

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

JULY 1, 2022

New hospice facilities and grief centers are cropping up across the country, while a California inpatient facility is reopening following a temporary closure due to the pandemic. . This will make the organization’s third center for youth bereavement in the area, with additional locations in Auburndale and Sebring, Florida.

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Hospice News

JULY 2, 2024

Established 40 years ago, the Virginia-based nonprofit provides community-based hospice, advanced integrative care and grief support services across predominantly rural regions. Family members and caregivers may also have unaddressed and unique bereavement needs compared to others without trauma or abuse experiences, Walsh indicated.

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