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Anatomy of Hospice Grief Camps for Children

Hospice News

Training staff and volunteers to provide developmentally-appropriate grief support is among the key parts of operating summer camp programs for children and adolescents suffering a recent loss. Majority of the children who attend the grief program have lost a parent or guardian due to a chronic illness, according to Drescher.

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HAP Foundation Launches to Research and Advance Hospice, Palliative Care

Hospice News

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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World Hospice and Palliative Care Day Raises Global Awareness

Hospice News

The theme this year seeks to highlight the plight of the billions who are ‘walking wounded’ after the last few years, which have been grief-filled for everyone,’ Leigh Meinert, advocacy manager at the Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa, told Hospice News in an email. “We This in turn could support employee retention. “I

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‘Normalizing’ Trauma-Informed Hospice Care Delivery

Hospice News

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 Programs Slated for Closure Remain Open

Hospice News

At present, Hospice of Central New York & the Finger Lakes is providing hospice care to patients in Oswego County. FOCH funding provides resources, assistance and supplies to patients with terminal illness in the area, along with maintaining hospice volunteer programs such as its children’s grief support program, Camp Rainbow of Hope. “We

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5 Myths About Kids and Grief

Solace

Those kids under 13 make up 70 percent of bereaved children. Our societal taboos about grief and death and our well-meaning but sometimes misplaced fears about exposing children to death can make it difficult for kids to find their way through their personal grief journeys. Grief looks like all kinds of things.

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Places of Farewell – bereaved parents’ decision making about their child’s place of death

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

This blog provides a summary of preliminary findings regarding bereaved parents’ decision making about their child’s place of death. Other implications for practice include how the outcome of these conversations can impact on the grief journey of the parent.