GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Holly Prigerson recalls the moments in which she started investigating prolonged grief disorder. She recalls being “a social scientist [Holly] in room full of psychiatrists,” who recognized a diagnostic gap in people experiencing profound and potentially harmful grief far after the death of a loved one. Summary Transcript Summary.

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Hospice News

MARCH 24, 2025

The center will also provide family-centered care such as spiritual, psychosocial and emotional support, assistance with advance care planning and bereavement care. Grief support will be available to families on its services as well as to surrounding communities.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Community leaders, and definitely faith community leaders. And then we did interviews with bereavement caregivers and we asked about distress and goal concordant end of life care. And so we’ve thought about this and goal concordant care definitely was the top. From just the abstracts we had so many questions.

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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

AUGUST 13, 2024

Operated in partnership with the Hospice of the Valley, the inpatient facility offers pediatric palliative care, hospice, grief support and respite services. Having standardized definitions around these services and clearer quality measures could go a long way toward improving access, he stated.

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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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Hospice News

JULY 22, 2022

Many come striving for change after witnessing loved ones receive poor end-of-life care or enduring bereavement without support. In time, the organization expanded to include the virtual Deathfolx platform, its Deathschool program, and an online grief community. Merelli: We wanted to bridge the gap to death.

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NHPCO

JUNE 21, 2023

Research also shows that hospice care—at any length of stay—benefits patients, family members, and caregivers, including increased satisfaction and quality of life, improved pain control, reduced physical and emotional distress, and reduced prolonged grief and other emotional distress.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The impact that it can have on not just the patients and their families, but also on those of us working in it — that definitely stood out to me. I would love to see us get to a point where the care is smooth and the experience is a journey of life — especially for caregivers and the bereaved.

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The Chaplain's Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

I initially started calling Frank for bereavement support but found I couldn’t get very far. Was I a bereavement counselor, a chaplain, a friend, or a therapist? Typically in hospice we offer to follow folks for a year for bereavement. He had definitely improved, but still had a long way to go.

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The Nurse Break

DECEMBER 4, 2022

18 best books for nurses about grief, death and loss. Processing grief can be a significant challenge to those directly experiencing loss and their loved ones. The Salt Path is an honest and life-affirming true story of coming to terms with grief and the healing power of the natural world.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 14, 2022

That’s definitely a hurdle to get across. I can’t fix you through the death and support in the bereavement process. The enormous weight that grief will put on us from the moment of diagnosis. We begin grieving that, you know, tech, technically the word is anticipatory grief. This is what normal grief is like.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

I think there’s definitely a stigma that, like you said, we just all wanna be fixers and we almost don’t wanna take advantage of that, that thought that, oh, the things I did weren’t enough, or I, I wasn’t able to to really fix that person. And I think it’s the mystery of it that scares us so much.

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Sahara Hospice Care

OCTOBER 29, 2021

But those feelings can definitely be forgiven! The Gift of Doulas for Grief. A lot of hospice patients have many resentments from their past and sometimes refuse to see someone who have hurt them in the past. This is totally understandable as us humans have feelings that can never be forgotten! What is the Role of a Hospice Chaplain?

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Danny 07:39 Yeah, definitely. So some of our approaches definitely altered based on the availability of what we could get done. And again, I think it’s hard even when we think about advanced care planning because like we talked about the definition, it’s a process and this is just a document of a snapshot of that process.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Is Bereavement Care Going High Tech? A number of entrepreneurs have emerged with tech solutions that offer grief and logistical support to bereaved families. The bill still has not passed, but even if it were, it would not represent a definitive solution to the shortage.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2022

Another piece of legislation is a bereavement bill. People’s experience of loss and grief in the last couple of years with the pandemic has been intensified and amplified in ways that no one‘s really experienced before. It’s not that the benefit was bad or wrong, it’s just a question of whether it is really the right definition.

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