Caregiving and Hospice, July 25 - July 31

From Grief Healing's Twitter stream this week:

• Excellent article @ChicagoSunTimes: Start planning to help your elderly parents, http://ow.ly/2jc8y via @AgeWiseLiving

• @NHPCO_news: "Embracing our dying," an article by Rev. Richard Benson, CM, http://bit.ly/am2NPm 

• @Kathy_Brandt: If you missed Atul Gawande's interview on NPR's Fresh Air, you can listen to his take on end-of-life care here, http://tiny.cc/oa1rx

• @hospice_news: The Paradox of Hospice http://nyti.ms/cyqIYB

• Stunning post by pediatrician remembering his care for infant at end-of-life: "Long, rambling, somewhat cathartic - all Atul Gawande's fault," http://bit.ly/9oSIzz , via @doclake

• Brad Stuart, MD: Talking with patients about their impending death | KevinMD.com, http://bit.ly/9LGw60 

• Excellent commentary! @doclake: @GeriPalBlog: REALLY Letting Go: Beyonde Gawande http://bit.ly/9jmqas 

• Wendy Harpham, MD: Hospice and hope aren't mutually exclusive: The "H" Word: Oncology Times, http://bit.ly/9JrydU

• @GeriPalBlog: Atul Gawande New Yorker Article "Letting Go," http://bit.ly/d6gARm

• @NHPCO_news: Powerful article, "Letting Go: What should medicine do when it can't save your life?" http://bit.ly/aamQKy

• @ctsinclair: "Letting go" - Great article from 'Best medical writer in US' via @doclake in @newyorkerdotccom , http://tiny.cc/5chve 

• @OneLifeTherapy: Life Before Death Campaign working to break down silence around death, http://bit.ly/aEPxkU 

• Very helpful! @caregiving: One Way to Judge a Nursing Home (NY Times), http://nyti.ms/cPEILT 

• @doclake: @kevinmd: End of life blogging benefits and questions raised http://ow.ly/2h4O9 - by our own @ctsinclair

• @JohnReaves: Avoiding "learned helplessness" in caregiving, http://wp.me/pNT5q-8g via @EmpowerAbility 

• @peternity: Healing power and benefits of having an animal companion in your life, http://tinyurl.com/ydhnj6q 

• Phillip Toledano's stunning photographic essay on last days with his father, via @ctsinclair , http://bit.ly/bHC5L

• @mission_hospice: Hospice Patient Savors Chance To Cook Four-Course Meal (Chicago Tribune), http://bit.ly/9hiMwH

• @DianaSebzda: @ctsinclair @brigid22 @hospicepharmacy Great article! Destigmatizing Dying through Social Media by Jeanne Dennis, http://huff.to/dBNi0h

• @DianaSebzda: @myOH_AgingWell Tips for downsizing - you can't take it with you, http://bit.ly/2VtFrZ 

• Providing emotional, physical support to veterans: America's VetDogs http://bit.ly/dhGrgk