Sunday, August 18, 2013

Caregiving and Hospice, August 11 - August 17, 2013

Best selections from Grief Healing's Twitter stream this week:

Journey Forward Introduces "My Care Plan" Tool to Help Cancer Survivors Begin Their Survivorship Care Plan, http://j.mp/16jpo6N « Oncology Nursing Society

Patients may have to push to get registered with the palliative care program, http://j.mp/16S9ajU « Life & Death Matters

A Philosophy of Palliative Care Nursing – Part 1, http://j.mp/1dgiYJg « FULLHALFGLASS

Emily’s Top 5: Selected articles on Palliative in Practice this week, http://j.mp/14nQeHG « Palliative in Practice

Individualized medical decision-making: still harder than it should be http://j.mp/14QcWhK « GeriTech

Links We Like: August 16, 2013, http://j.mp/13qOfHM « Casa de la Luz Hospice

Will We Ever Arrive at the Good Death? http://j.mp/19mTSG8 « NYT

Therapy dog, owner sharing caring since 1996, http://j.mp/13Fcxsd « The Day

Maybe We Need to Redefine “Palliative Care,” http://j.mp/16TZ5Fb « WebMD

The first day of ‘Sign-On’ to hospice, http://j.mp/17tcSjY « Caring with Confidence

A Good Death: How Boomers Will Change the World a Final Time, http://j.mp/18xcXnS « TIME

Doctor brings a little cheer to hospice patients, http://j.mp/16l6D5k « Las Vegas Review Journal

Powerful post: It's Time, http://j.mp/15EsOgu « Death with Dignity National Center

Can general nursing learn from specialist hospice care? http://j.mp/16PM1Ao « NursingTimes.net

Sobering piece: Failing Mrs. Jones: How a group of doctors (including me) failed a dying patient,  http://j.mp/17pjK1N « It's OK to Die

Study: Simple Question May Raise Empathy for Terminally Ill Patients, http://j.mp/1eJzcIO « Epoch Times

Another important question: "What if it was YOUR mother?" http://j.mp/16bjGnq « Boston.com

How to communicate better when your loved one has a hearing loss, http://j.mp/13hpKwC « Caring with Confidence

Online Support: The New Virtual Chicken Soup, http://j.mp/1d3oE9w « Huffington Post
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