Caregiving and Hospice, April 15 - April 21, 2018

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

What to Say: Compassionate Cancer Etiquette, http://j.mp/2HRSvqA « Seven Ponds Blog

Got volunteers? Association of hospice use of volunteers with bereaved family members' overall rating of the quality of end-of-life care, http://j.mp/2HNG0MF « PubMed - NCBI

Where Do I Turn When I'm Unfixable? https://youtu.be/usy5oRIpIoE « YouTube

Caregiving and Hospice, April 10 - April 23, 2016

Best selections from Grief Healing's Twitter stream:

A Love Letter – “You Are The Light of Hospice,” http://j.mp/1P9oiAD « Hospice Times

Podcast: Using the Independent Death Doula in Healthcare, http://j.mp/1T3nQ6f « Hospice Times

Your anger towards doctors is misplaced, http://j.mp/214f65Z « Kevin MD

Caregiving and Hospice, April 13 - April 19, 2014

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

House calls are making a comeback, http://j.mp/1izK2Xp « Milt Freudenheim via The New York Times

Death and doctors who don’t want to talk about it, http://j.mp/1nhaBDS « Best Endings

What to do when the doc won’t refer to hospice, http://j.mp/PfXiEN « Monica Williams-Murphy, MD via It's OK to Die

Caregiving and Hospice, March 31 - April 6, 2013

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

Ten Facts about Hospice Care You May Not Know,  http://j.mp/17j11a8 « NHPCO

Best Parkinson's Websites:  Easy to navigate, concise/clear information, http://bit.ly/13SBbe6 « Caring.com

Pre-Planning a Funeral to Ease a Family's Grief, http://buff.ly/XRwEoJ « AgingCare.com

The different emotions of a caregiving wife, http://j.mp/14TqUxX « Caring with Confidence

Anticipatory Grief in Caregiving, http://j.mp/10zSRGr

Caregiving and Hospice, March 24 - March 30, 2013

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

When Dealing With a Very Sick Spouse, Bravery Is Essential, http://j.mp/YYFSKO « Huffington Post

Create a Caregiver Corps that would include debt forgiveness for college graduates to care for our elders, http://wh.gov/GURc « We The People

After the Diagnosis, the Get-Togethers, http://j.mp/14BUfwy « NYT

Caregiving and Taxes: Video post with links to more tax information, http://ow.ly/jyhtB by @AmyGoyer « AARP

Powerful Breast Cancer Photo Essay: Man Documents His Wife's Brave Battle With The Disease, http://j.mp/YOvu92 « Huffington Post

A Rally for Our Loved Ones and Ourselves

In honor of National Healthcare Decisions Day (NHDD), April 16, I’m taking a break from blogging this week and spending my writing time with my loved ones.  I hope that this guest post, by Nathan Kottkamp, Founder and Chair of NHDD, will inspire you to think about the conversations we all should be having with our own loved ones about an uncomfortable but important topic – planning for when we die.