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We’re definitely seeing an increase in resale shop sales,” Hospice & Community Care CEO Jennifer Graham told Hospice News. This can include more robust grief programs or palliative care, among others. We also use these funds to support bereavement programs.”
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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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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.
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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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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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.
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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