Hospice News

JUNE 20, 2024

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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HopeHealth

DECEMBER 8, 2023

With the help of two professional actors, kids and teens at Camp BraveHeart tapped into the power of theater to navigate grief. The post How a theater workshop helps kids and teens navigate grief appeared first on HopeHealth.

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HopeHealth

JULY 26, 2024

We had been married 55 Read More The post “She healed my heart”: In grief support group, a friendship blossoms appeared first on HopeHealth. At age 33, her world felt like it was crumbling beneath her. That same year, Pat, age 79, lost her husband. “We

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

introduced legislation this morning to create a National Strategy on Grief and establish grants to fund trauma-informed care for the bereaved. Establishing a National Grief Strategy will help people move forward with the help of skilled professionals creating a culture of awareness and support. Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.)

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Illinois-based Great Lakes Health Partners, an Interim Healthcare franchise, is launching a grief support group for employees aimed at helping hospice workers deal with the stress of providing bedside end-of-life care. Can you tell me more about the types of grief support a program such as this offers hospice workers?

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HopeHealth

JULY 29, 2022

In the wake of that loss, she found her calling as a grief counselor. The post South County spotlight: After personal loss, a grief counselor finds her calling appeared first on HopeHealth. When Marsha Ireland was 36, she lost her husband and the father of her young children.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

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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Hospice News

JANUARY 9, 2023

The bereavement care tech platform Grief Coach has rebranded as Help Texts and is expanding its services to include support for health care workers who are contending with stress or burnout. The company convened a group of professionals with experience in grief care to develop the content, from a variety of disciplines.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In addition to hospice, Anthony House also offers grief services as part of its Supportive Care Ministries program for bereaved individuals. Dubbed The Retreat at Quarters Lake, services available at the new center include individual grief counseling and support groups, as well as art, music and pet therapies. To date, more 1.2

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HopeHealth

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

If you’ve lost a loved one, your grief may feel particularly intense around the holidays. The post Grief & the holidays: Practical advice when you have experienced the loss of a loved one appeared first on HopeHealth. Here are tips to get through the season.

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HopeHealth

JUNE 7, 2023

HopeHealth’s virtual LGBTQ+ Grief Support Group offers an inclusive, compassionate community for people who identify as LGBTQ+ and are coping with a loss. Co-facilitators Alex Zima and Bob Iovino-Zuniga share what Read More The post Belong, understand, heal: Join our LGBTQ+ Grief Support Group appeared first on HopeHealth.

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Hospice News

JULY 24, 2024

The grief care startup Betterleave has established partnerships with two Texas Hospices, Sonder Hospice in Austin and LoveWell Hospice in the Dallas-Fort Worth region. It also connects families with support groups and workshops; materials such as articles, videos and journals and a network of grief experts.

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HopeHealth

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The post Tips for coping with grief on Valentine’s Day appeared first on HopeHealth. Valentine’s Day is often full of memories, which can bring on intense feelings of loss. If you’re grieving, here are tips to get through the day.

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HopeHealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Grief can be isolating at any age — and that certainly includes young adulthood. If a young person is grieving, where can they find a Read More The post 5 signs our Young Adult Grief Support Group may be right for you appeared first on HopeHealth. Through our 20s and even 30s, friends tend to play a leading role in our lives.

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HopeHealth

MAY 16, 2024

Discover top books and online resources for navigating grief. The post Finding Solace: Top Books and Online Resources for Navigating Grief appeared first on HopeHealth. Find comfort, understanding, and hope through our curated recommendations. Explore now to support your healing journey.

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HopeHealth

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

A Brown University medical student is working with HopeHealth to research how music can help us cope with grief. The post Can music help you cope with grief? The response has been powerful. This researcher aims to find out appeared first on HopeHealth.

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Life & Death Matters

AUGUST 9, 2024

I love to think of grief as a normal, healthy, whole person response by which we adapt to life without the person/loved one, physically present. Years ago, Freud taught that grief should have an end, and that end included, a severed connection with the deceased. I’m grateful we have moved from this perspective!

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Life & Death Matters

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

CPCNA wrote a position statement on Grief and Grief Literacy to help strengthen the competence and confidence of all nurses to provide the best care possible for patients, families and communities facing life-limiting situations.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Blue Ridge Care has unveiled its new Center for Hope & Healing, a facility dedicated to offering comprehensive grief care. In one display, a collection of rocks symbolizes the weight of grief. The Virginia-based nonprofit hospice, palliative care and PACE provider financed the center through philanthropic donations.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Some hospices have increasingly recognized the value of collaborating with local educators when it comes to improving community grief support for bereaved children and their families. This involves having educators weigh in the common challenges that kids experience along their grief journeys. “We The groups were a huge hit.

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Life & Death Matters

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

National Grief and Bereavement Day is a time to reflect on the profound impact of loss and the vital role of community support during times of grief. This day prompts us to recognize the universal nature of loss, the individual experience of grief, and the power of collective empathy and care facilitated by communities.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Hospices competing for sparse staffing resources are increasingly recognizing the retention value of including grief care support in their benefits packages. The Austin-Texas-based grief tech platform Betterleave launched last year, increasing collaborations with hospice providers ever since.

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Hospice News

JULY 3, 2024

The nonprofit hospice and palliative care provider offers grief care to its entire community regardless of whether a family member was one of their patients. Another example is a long-term community that had lost a longtime resident asked for our counselors to come out and provide a grief support program.”

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Anatomy of Hospice Grief Camps for Children Many hospices offer summer grief camps for bereaved children and adolescents, which come with a host of operational and logistical considerations. Hospices have taken varied approaches to shaping their youth grief programs, but common threads exist.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 2, 2024

The hospice provider temporarily halted the eight-week grief support program during the COVID-19 pandemic due to social distancing requirements. Having a program that focuses on traumatic loss helps create safe spaces for individuals to navigate a complex range of grief emotions, Suozzo indicated. Set to restart on Aug.

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Hospice News

MARCH 12, 2024

Empathy continues to set new standards for supporting families through grief and loss,” said Ron Gura, Co-Founder and CEO of Empathy, in a statement. “We The post Grief Care Tech Company Empathy Raises $47M in Sseries B Round appeared first on Hospice News.

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HopeHealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Guy Marini was inspired by what he learned from participating in a HopeHealth grief support group. So he wrote a children’s book about grief to honor his late wife’s memory and comfort his two grandchildren. The post Sharing love after loss: Widower writes book to help his grandchildren with grief appeared first on HopeHealth.

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Elaine Mansfield

MAY 24, 2022

Your grief gives me permission to feel my grief,” Steve said. Do you create rituals to help you through lingering grief? ” The post Green Gladness in Days of Grief appeared first on Elaine Mansfield. I send my friend Steve a text asking if he’ll walk to Vic’s cairn with me on June 3, Vic’s death date.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 23, 2024

This centralization was designed to ensure consistency in its grief care operations and to ensure comparable quality across the company’s national footprint, Yelena Zatulovsky, vice-president of patient experience for AccentCare, said at the Home Care 100 Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2023

Judi’s House/JAG Institute is a Colorado-based nonprofit organization that provides bereavement services to adults and youths and also offers grief support training to mental health professionals. The idea of creating a safe space for kids in our grief support model became really paramount to help them not be alone.”

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HopeHealth

AUGUST 22, 2023

A young woman shares her experience with sudden loss, grief, and healing. “It It is almost impossible to understand what grief is like until it happens to you,” she says. The post Talking about my dad: A daughter’s tribute appeared first on HopeHealth.

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Life & Death Matters

AUGUST 28, 2023

We desired to support her in her grief. Three months later, our […] The post Book Recommendation: Unobservable: Poems of Grief and Grace, by Siobhan Westrop appeared first on Life and Death Matters. In October 2019 Ted and I flew to join Siobhan. We walked the beaches together. Little did we know.

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Hospice News

JULY 16, 2024

Victimized families are at greater risk of having complicated grief experiences, Kraus stated. Fraud can contribute to complicated grief Program integrity issues have heated up in the hospice industry, particularly in four hotbed states of Arizona, California, Nevada and Texas. They’re going to carry that.”

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Francis’ NorthStar Child Grief Support is designed to specifically address the needs of bereaved children and their families. Treasure Coast Hospice also offers veteran and bereavement services, including its annual summer program for children, Camp Good Grief. Francis Reflections said in the announcement.

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HopeHealth

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Now, she opens up about her grief journey in the months since. When her husband died, “I was simply frozen,” Pamela says. The pain was unrelenting.” The post “This is my love letter to you”: Healing after the loss of a partner appeared first on HopeHealth.

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Hospice News

JUNE 29, 2023

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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AJN Off the Charts

MARCH 28, 2024

Editor’s note: Hui-wen Sato is a pediatric ICU nurse in California and a regular writer for this blog who has gone deeply into the topic of grief, her own and that of patients and their families. Her insights reverse our usual ways of understanding grief, finding a generative energy instead of a wasteland.

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