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Hospice Educators ‘Planting Seeds’ Among High School Students

Hospice News

Student volunteers assist with meal preparation, feeding and companionship. Engaging students in conversations about death, dying and bereavement is an important component of normalizing these topics throughout their lifetime. Grief education is an additional huge part of the hospice program, she said.

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Hospice Nurse, Educator Seeks to Change National Conversation About Death

Hospice News

We’ve done a podcast every week for the last five years, and they’re all public education regarding serious illness, dying, death and bereavement. I don’t want to see in my feed that everyone dies. And a year after I retired, we started to do our first podcast, and so now we’re at our five-year anniversary.

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Understanding and Managing Grief, February 9 - February 15, 2025

Grief Healing Blog

Best selections from Grief Healing's X feed this week: While there's no single right way to navigate loss, for many, having support from others can make the grieving process a bit easier, research shows. A 2020 review analyzed over a dozen studies on bereavement groups for grief and depression symptoms.

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Hospice Care versus Home Health Care

Shining Light Hospice

Nurses aides can assist with activities of daily living such as toileting, bathing, and feeding. Hospice care includes comprehensive grief and bereavement support services for patients and their families. What Does Hospice Care Include? Each Hospice patient has a dynamic team of providers whose priority is on their comfort.

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End-of-Life Dreams and Visions (ELDVs)

Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

Research reported in the American Journal of Hospice Palliative Care concludes that p ositive general attitudes toward end-of-life dreams, visions, ( ELDV) and positive perceptions are correlated with better bereavement outcomes. I asked Rose after feeding her. “Me? I’ve been spending time with my people. I enjoyed myself a lot.” “Hey,

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A Child’s Awareness of the Secrets of Death

Elaine Mansfield

My grandpa who let me bottle feed abandoned lambs and cranked homemade peach ice cream in August. I don’t know how long it took to understand you’d died. My favorite loving grandpa who took me to the barn and perched me on a cow while he milked by hand, squirting warm milk in the metal bucket.

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School-Nursing Home Partnerships (Service-Learning, Dementia)

Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

I know your words make me feel better, feed my heart with praise, help me care about others the way you care about me. I know your childhood friends whisper secrets, your favorite dress has ruffles, my cards touch you with sunshine, you love the stories I tell.