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Hospice Educators ‘Planting Seeds’ Among High School Students

Hospice News

Prince is also a licensed clinical social worker and an adjunct professor at the State University of New York Brockport. Student volunteers assist with meal preparation, feeding and companionship. Grief education is an additional huge part of the hospice program, she said.

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The Roots of Palliative Care: Michael Kearney, Sue Britton, and Justin Sanders

GeriPal

She retrained as a social worker, and it was while she was a social worker that she began to formulate her ideas for better kind of end of life care, which was to become hospice care, modern hospice care. And I’m sad to say it, but I don’t think doctors are gonna listen to a social worker.

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Miscommunication in Medicine: A podcast with Shunichi Nakagawa, Abby Rosenberg and Don Sullivan

GeriPal

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.

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Comics and Humor in Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nathan Gray

GeriPal

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. But luckily, Anne Kelly, our social worker, was in the room with me and said the magic thing that just was the right thing to say. Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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HSPN Staffing Summit: Leveraging Technology for Person-Centered Care

Hospice News

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.

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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. Spiritual support is provided by the Hospice chaplain and social workers are also available. Hospice care includes comprehensive grief and bereavement support services for patients and their families.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. And it might include spiritual needs such as grief, despair, anger, et cetera, as well as resources that they have to bring to bear.

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