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DayNew Launches Grief Care Platform

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Through the app, the traumatized or bereaved receive a customized set of resources and services designed to help guide them through healing and grief, according to DayNew. We’re definitely hinging on hospice centers as being very natural partners for us,” Nissim said.

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Prolonged Grief Disorder: Holly Prigerson

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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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Grief Care Platform Betterleave Expanding Via New Hospice-Partnership Model

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The grief care tech platform Betterleave is expanding with a new hospice-partnership model that augments its employee-benefit business. The company also provides patients and families with guidance on how to logistically prepare, including estate and memorial planning, as well as counseling for anticipatory grief.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

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[link] Toronto Star Feature [link] CityNews Toronto Feature [link] Psychosocial Interventions at PEACH In addition to medical care, PEACH also runs two key psychosocial interventions for our clients: PEACH Grief Circles Structured spaces for workers in the homelessness sector to process grief. Naheed 16:20 Yeah.

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New Pediatric Hospice Coming to Fruition, Pushing for Legislation to Improve Access

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Grief support will be available to families on its services as well as to surrounding communities. If it passes, it could lead the way for all these other pediatric homes trying to emerge that are going through the same legal, legislative processes without any real definitions in place.

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Lack of Staff, Guidelines Build Hurdles for Hospice Bereavement Care Programs

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Hospices are not reimbursed enough to support grief care teams,” Gross told Hospice News. Having clinicians more involved in grief programs allows families’ a continued interdisciplinary support after a loved ones’ through that direct connection, Gross explained. Gross is also a medical director at ANX Hospice Care.

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Federal Bill Calls for Bereavement Care Consensus Standards

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Proposed federal legislation could advance the development of an evidence-based definition of “high-quality” bereavement care. And some people are going to refuse grief and bereavement services, and no hospice should be penalized for that,” Gurian said. However, if enacted, the bill would not actually require them to take action.