HELPING YOUR NEW HOSPICE EMPLOYEES
As hospice agencies continue to grow we are hiring more from the acute care settings. It used to be that medical professionals, nurses, social workers and home health aides, arrived...
Something to Think About: a blog on end of life
How Does Hospice Work At Home?
Hospice works at home for you. It provides support, guidance, and education but even more it provides understanding, concern, and heart felt caring for you, the family, and your support...
There Is No Pattern~ Dementia At End of Life
Most diseases have a pattern. You generally know what to expect. With dementia there seems to be no pattern, at least as far as approaching death is concerned until they...
Cleaning Out Their Belongings After Death
First, if you don’t have to clean out belongings, don’t for awhile, wait even months if necessary. There can be great comfort found in putting on an unwashed sweater of...
Does Everyone Need Grief Counseling?
Counseling is a support offering, a choice. Some personalities would never consider counseling. They would not be comfortable sharing their personal thoughts and life with someone else no matter how professional...
For That Person, We Will Grieve
Hospice was perfect for them. Charles had a life threatening illness, had refused further treatment, and they were alone. We were there to give them support and guidance. Charles and...
A Reason To Get Out of Bed, Part II
...Then a physician says “I can’t fix you. You are going to die sometime soon”, it is generally not said so bluntly. Actually often it is not said at all....
A Reason To Get Out Of Bed
When someone has told you you can’t be fixed, that sooner than you expected you will die, your reason for living, your purpose, that which fills your time each day, is...
Stay Until The Job Is Done - Hospice and Home Health
With Hospice you never know what you will find once you enter the home. Service can’t be time based. Visits have to be stay until the job is done and...
We Are Born, We Experience, And Then We Die
... if we would educate ourselves before we need the information, before someone we care about is dying, before we are faced with a life threatening illness, or before someone we...
Using Hospice Volunteers During COVID
I was Zooming with a hospice today for Q & A’s and the subject of not being able to use volunteers because of Covid came up. WHOA!!! What do you...
The Scar In Your Heart: Grief In End of Life Care
You asked why your relationship to your hospice work was affected following the death of your dad. I think because every time you entered a patient's home and life it...