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How Hospice Supports Families

1-800-HOSPICE

A well-timed hospice referral has been shown to cut the risk of clinical depression among family caregivers by more than 88%. Additionally, Medicare pays 100% for home hospice with no copays or deductibles. Caregiver Education in Hospice. Hospice nurses spend a significant amount of their time training family caregivers.

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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

GeriPal

I’m guessing some, because I’ve read a lot of articles, are social workers and nurses, past hospice nurses. With Goodwin Hospice patients, not as much because they have that support from the bereavement group at Goodwin Hospice. It’s a story, and the story likes to be told again and again.

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Ep.18: BK Books with Barbara Karnes: Why Approaching Hospice Holistically is Necessary to the Success of the Care Continuum

Home Care Pulse

He, there’s so much focus given to bereavement and grief as well, and he fears that again, there’s just not enough thought giving to what that dying person themselves is going through, whether they’re afraid to die with any secrets surrounded by platitudes. And hospice has evolved in those, what, 50 years.

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