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‘Innovative Opportunities’ Exist in Growing Need for Trauma-Informed Bereavement Care

Hospice News

Shaping their grief support programs with this trend in mind will be pivotal to hospices ability to expand the depth and reach of their services. The community-based nonprofit provides hospice and palliative care, as well as grief support and veterans programs. A mounting volume of research backs this theory.

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Hospices’ Mythbusting Strategies: ‘It’s Not Brink-of-Death Care’

Hospice News

We must be better at positioning hospice care as a part of improving their lives, rather than simply being present at death.” More hospices reached out virtually to connect with patients and their families, including through expanded online grief programs. Service diversification can also be a key to feature in public outreach.

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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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Global Challenges Persist in Bringing Hospice Care to Incarcerated Populations

Hospice News

It presents real challenges for underresourced health care services and prison staff who are not trained to address end-of-life care needs. Community hospices have the skills that prisons could really benefit from in helping to sensitize prison staff and helping to train volunteers in grief counseling and caregiving.

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Mahogany CEO: Hospice on Cusp of ‘Tremendous Revolution’

Hospice News

They can use that energy trying to figure it all out to focus on being present. Our services will include the standard hospice functions such as individual bereavement care and volunteer-based therapy, but we also have grief support groups. We cannot change their health outcome, but maybe we can impact their journey.

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Continuing Bonds: Journey Through Grief

Life & Death Matters

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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Palliative Care’s Most Disruptive Forces in 2025

Hospice News

Financial volatility across the health system presents a substantial risk to palliative care teams, because there are no requirements that health systems or plans provide palliative care (with some specific exceptions). Despite changing winds in U.S.

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