Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I've engaged in coaching with clients who struggle with mental illness; those overcoming grief and tragic loss; individuals with disabled spouses or children; and still others who shoulder personal or familial burdens that might break the spirit of others less determined and spiritually hearty.

Nursing 74

Nursing Magazine 2012 Healthcare 74

Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Student volunteers assist with meal preparation, feeding and companionship. Grief education is an additional huge part of the hospice program, she said. Students work side by side with volunteers assisting hospice patients and their families at two private comfort care homes in the Rochester, New York, area.

Hospice 246

Hospice Social worker Feeding Bereavement 246

Traditions Health

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

But it’s also challenging to manage all the ways you need to meet their needs, from bathing, dressing, and feeding them to managing their medications, and doctors’ appointments. Consider trying one or more of the following suggestions: Accept your feelings It’s normal to feel a range of emotions as a caregiver, from gratitude to grief.

Caregiver 98

Caregiver Housekeeping Bathing Feeding 98

Grief Healing Blog

APRIL 6, 2025

Best selections from Grief Healing's X feed this week: The experience of dying a gradual death is an important, integral part of life. Writing Our Final Chapter More Meaningfully Barbara Karnes, RN Sadly, I frequently have families experiencing grief state some variation on the following: Dont play music, we might cry.

Grief 59

Grief 2025 Feeding 59

Grief Healing Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

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.

Grief 52

Grief 2025 Bereavement Feeding 52

Grief Healing Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Counting Blessings and Giving Thanks Grief Healing CLICK HERE TO READ MORE>>>

Grief 52

Grief 2024 Feeding Caregiver 52

Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The film provides a window into what hospices actually do, as well as the experience of families whose loved ones are nearing end of life, the challenges of caregiving and grief that often begins long before the patient dies, according to Jonathan Fleece, CEO of Empath Health. “I

2005 290

2005 Hospice 2004 Grief 290

Grief Healing Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Best selections from Grief Healing's X feed this week: My heart weighed so heavy in my chest that it felt as if I was drowning. Through 'The Loss Mother's Stone,' mothers share their grief from losing a child to stillbirth NPR CLICK HERE TO READ MORE>>>

Grief 52

Grief 2024 Feeding 52

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Because, if anybody hasn’t seen it, you’ve got a great Twitter feed that gives tons of pearls on palliative care and a lot on communication. Speaking of pearls, should we move to Shunichi’s Twitter feed? Alex: Shunichi, your Twitter feed is like haiku. What motivated you to dive into this? That’s okay.

Article 361

Article Palliative care Feeding Palliate 361

GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

However if you want to take a deeper dive, check out his website “ The Ink Vessel ” or his amazing twitter feed which has a lot of his work in it. Alex: Could you walk us through this one, stages of grief in era of immunotherapy? And it seemed like we had created a new stage of grief. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

Palliative care 363

Palliative care Palliate Grief Definition 363

Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

We also run a caregiver institute and a Full Circle grief and loss center. Daniel eventually passed away about eight years ago, but not before he was placed on that trach and peritoneal dialysis and feeding tube and many other interventions and, all the while, not really focusing on what he wanted as a good quality of life.

Bathing 130

Bathing Chaplain Hospice Healthcare 130

GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

I think that was from a point of view of how do you cope with sadness and grief, is that you find a funny bone somewhere and you have. And it was just the opposite for me. I loved the relationship that we developed and the fun we had. We had a lot of fun, actually. You release with the laughing. We used to laugh all the time.

Palliative care 251

Palliative care Palliate Books Social worker 251

Grief Healing Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Best selections from Grief Healing's X feed this week: When someone you love loses a person they love, it can be hard to know what to say. this situation, the best thing to do is "name the elephant in the room," says Mekel Harris, a psychologist and grief consultant.

Grief 52

Grief 2024 Feeding 52

GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

So, she was in a pathetic stage and she had no way of coming and seeing the mother because she had to feed the children from her earnings. And her daughter can’t come visit her because she doesn’t have money for bus fare and her husband’s an alcoholic, demanding money from her and she has to feed her own children.

Palliative care 282

Palliative care Palliate Books Definition 282

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

And it’s supposedly also about his grief with the loss of his father after a long illness. They often have behavioral issues stemming from their disorder, their life circumstances, all sort of feeding into each other. And then eventually the song evolved and the lyrics changed. They’re often angry.

Palliative care 176

Palliative care Palliate Article Document 176

Shining Light Hospice

APRIL 8, 2022

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. The support does not necessarily end at the patient’s passing, and families can receive extended grief benefits if needed.

Hospice care 91

Hospice care Hospice Social worker Bathing 91

Palliverse

JANUARY 9, 2024

She had been feeding well. They all went home when her dad’s pain was controlled. I next saw her a few weeks later. She had put on weight, her cheeks were chubby. Her little arms and legs looked bigger. When she smiled two dimples would appear. Her dad wasn’t doing so well, he didn’t feel like eating.

Feeding 52

Feeding Grief 52

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

That, as you were saying, Eric, that bring me joy that I can pursue because they feed me, as well as whatever the reward system that I’m in. And then there’s all those gold standards that I mentioned earlier, meaning making connection, prosocial emotions, processing grief. We should be writing. We should be doing this.

Chaplain 268

Chaplain Palliative care Definition Healthcare 268

Palliverse

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

To be able to wash and feed themselves would be a treat. Staying in hospice for end-of-life care. A trip outside to the garden can be in the too-hard basket. To be able to mow the lawn again would be a luxury for some people. The loss of independence and assault on a person’s dignity.

Feeding 59

Feeding End-of-life care Hospice Grief 59

Palliverse

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Grief doesn’t just occur when someone dies, it starts much sooner than that. Feeding the nascent self-confidence. I need to know what is really going on in order to help her. I need her to be herself. Her deteriorating self. She can accept that death is approaching. What’s difficult is the dying process.

Feeding 52

Feeding Grief 52

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

And it might include spiritual needs such as grief, despair, anger, et cetera, as well as resources that they have to bring to bear. It might include their practices and affiliations, which may be religious or not. It might include the impact of their beliefs on the decisions that they make about their care.

Chaplain 244

Chaplain Palliative care Social worker Palliate 244

Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Suffering is also witnessed by so many of us when we turn on the evening news, listen to the radio, or scroll through a news app on our phone or our Facebook feed. Nurses too live with debt, personal tragedy, and grief and loss -- we also strive to create the best lives we possibly can for ourselves, our loved ones, and our communities.

Nursing 52

Nursing Magazine 2012 Feeding 52

Living With Hospice

JULY 5, 2020

Let's start with the fact that there is a real thing called the grief cycle or the grief process. You know, there are five basic steps to the grief cycle, there's denial, there's anger, there's bargaining. They know what the grief process is like. You've heard of it, I'm sure. That's true. It's VERY true.

Grief 52

Grief Hospice volunteer Hospice Caregiver 52

Palliverse

MAY 7, 2022

Dad wanted to take her home, he knew that he could feed her food she would like, and that home rehabilitation could be considered. Despite Dad feeding her five small meals a day, she was shrinking fast. Functionally she was improving gradually but still could not walk independently. The ward team recommended hospital level of care.

Feeding 59

Feeding Books 2020 Hospice 59

Elaine Mansfield

MARCH 15, 2022

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.

Feeding 59

Feeding Bereavement Grief 59

Living With Hospice

JULY 19, 2021

When he came home, he would go out in this huge garden that was big enough to feed the Seventh Fleet and there were only four of us kids. Closing the books helps everyone with their grief cycle journey. For some reason, they always put it off. My dad worked his whole life. He didn't know how to recreate, he just worked.

Books 52

Books Presentation Events Feeding 52

Living With Hospice

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Don't wake them up to feed them or give them water or take medicine, just let them sleep, the body's doing what it's supposed to do. Important point here. I know that can be hard sometimes to watch. And we're so used to making sure that our loved one gets their meds and their food and the toileting and washing and everything on time.

Vital signs 52

Vital signs Hospice Social worker Information 52

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

So intubation, cpr, feeding tubes. Eric 19:31 So it was interventions like feeding tubes, mechanical ventilation, dialysis at the very end of life. So it’s looking at things that you would expect that someone who, again, ideally trying to define the population with serious illness who might not possibly want these interventions.

Document 191

Document Palliative care Definition Bereavement 191

GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

To the deeper emotions – of loss and grief, of wonder and transcendence – that are at the heart of the complex care we provide. Loss, Losing and Loosening, poetry for grief and loss . This is how the heart makes a duet of wonder and grief. And along the way, we really felt like we got to the heart of things.

Palliative care 230

Palliative care Palliate Grief Books 230

Grief Healing Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Best selections from Grief Healing's X feed: [T]hat a man might actually feel a profound emotional connection to his unborn child as it livesor diesinside someone elses body is not a truth were especially comfortable with.My

Grief 52

Grief 2025 Feeding 52

Grief Healing Blog

MARCH 23, 2025

Best selections from Grief Healing's X feed this month: Grief can hit us in powerful and unanticipated ways. And this grief can be especially profound if it coincides with a parent dying or moving into residential aged care, leading to the sale of their house. In fact, it is normal to grieve a place.

Grief 59

Grief 2025 Feeding 59

GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Everything from normative reactions like exist anticipatory grief to comorted psychiatric illness like depression, anxiety, ptsd, which we know is really prevalent in our populations, out to sort of patients with severe psychiatric comorbidities which we probably drop the ball on more. We’re pretty familiar with that in palliative care.

Palliative care 246

Palliative care Palliate Article Definition 246