Hospice Foundation of America's 30th annual program uses case study approach to review and explore well-established ethical principles of end-of-life care i...
This presentation discusses what trauma-informed care means, how it started, and what it looks like in end-of-life care. Trauma sources, symptoms, principles, a...
Although most mourners are resilient, a significant minority experience a profoundly disruptive course of bereavement that substantially impairs their ability to fun...
What does grief do to our brain? Using an integrative view of clinical psychology and cognitive neuroscience, Mary-Frances O’Connor, PhD, author of The Gri...
Disenfranchised grief occurs when a loss is stigmatized or is not socially validated. At times the stigmatization and invalidation of grief is intertwined, cons...
Suicide is now among the top 4 causes of death for some age groups in the United States and the 11th cause of death in the entire US population, leaving many be...
Medicare wisely created an interdisciplinary benefit 4 decades ago, to support dying patients and their chosen families. However, major deficits still exist in...
A Caregiver’s Guide to the Dying Process prepares caregivers by discussing both the physical symptoms of dying and the psychological issues that accom...
This booklet dispels the all-too-common myths surrounding hospice as well as the hospice philosophy of care, hospice care in a nursing home, how to access hospice ca...
This beautiful, award-winning workbook is designed to help a person tell his or her life story.
This useful booklet draws on articles from Journeys – A Newsletter to Help in Bereavement to provide support, validation and guidance while navigating...
This tri-fold gives helpful tips for providing support and is useful for those unfamiliar with and uncomfortable around serious and advanced illness. ...
The bereaved often find themselves returning to work shortly after a loss due to employment policies and/or income needs. This booklet addresses the trepidation that...