Tender Care Home Health & Hospice’s Post

🔍 Challenges in Hospice Bereavement Care: Insights and Industry Hurdles: 📉 Staffing and Financial Constraints: Bereavement care in hospices is hindered by systemic underfunding and staff shortages, impacting the quality of support for bereaved families. 💡 Integrated Care Approach Needed: Incorporating bereavement skills across all clinical staff, not just specialized grief counselors, could improve family support and service billing. 🌐 Pandemic-Era Adaptations: COVID-19 prompted a shift to virtual bereavement services, which require additional resources and training but offer a new avenue for support. ☀️ Community Engagement: Programs like Hospice of the Chesapeake's Camp Nabi illustrate community-backed bereavement support initiatives despite operational challenges. 📋 Lack of Clear Guidelines: The absence of specific regulatory standards for bereavement care leaves hospices without a clear blueprint, impacting consistency and quality of care. 📝 Legislative Stalemate: Efforts to define "high-quality" bereavement care in federal legislation have stalled, leaving a gap in standardized care practices. #HospiceCare #BereavementSupport #HealthcareChallenges #PalliativeCare #CareCoordinations Read the entire conversation with Dawn M. Gross MD, PhD and the article by Holly Vossel at Hospice News 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gcKrEcBY

🌟 Discover the innovative and portable cooling system that's transforming bereavement care standards: the CuddleBlanket from Flexmort 🌟 Hospitals, hospices, and funeral directors are embracing this gentle solution to provide families with the gift of time, dignity, and compassionate care. Duty of care extends beyond death. For families preferring to keep loved ones close, the CuddleBlanket provides a portable and cost effective cooling solution, without needing to cool the entire room. Cooling bodies can be crucial in granting the bereaved invaluable time with their loved ones they may not otherwise have. Allowing family to visit, space to make arrangements, and the chance to create tangible memories. Designed for adults and children, the CuddleBlanket is quick to set up, and designed to seamlessly fit any bed. The blanket envelops the deceased individual, ensuring a constant and reliable cool temperature without needing to cool the whole room. Learn more about how the CuddleBlanket can enhance your bereavement services at: flexmort.com/cuddleblanket (Link in bio) #BereavementCare #CuddleBlanket #CompassionateCare #Flexmort #HospiceCare #FuneralDirectors #Hospitals #GriefSupport #compassionatecare

While no words, books or videos can take away a family’s grief after losing a child, there are many valuable resources available to help provide support, hope and comfort. As we recognize Bereaved Parents Awareness Month this July, here are a few resources you can share with your client families to help them navigate their healing journey: https://hubs.ly/Q02FWJz30

Hospice care is unique because YOU get to choose when you start, how your pain is managed, and when bereavement services begin. Being prepared for the end of life event is important for both the patient and their loved ones. Did you know that when you elect the hospice benefit, you can address pre-bereavement needs? 💚 Earlier admission to hospice care can provide more time to plan for the end-of-life event. 💚 Hospice care provides assistance with locating resources and community support for the patient and their loved ones. 💚 Your hospice team will work with both the patient and family to address bereavement needs prior to the end-of-life event. Find out more: https://nuvi.me/0tc7qx #Compassion #Journey #Bereavement #Timing #BristolHospice #Choices

We understand that grief often begins long before death. When a life-limiting diagnosis is given, grief can start and then increase during care and following a death. Our hospice teams are here to provide the following services to help ease the grieving process: • Support groups • One-on-one support • Family counseling • Phone support • Bereavement support newsletters • Memorial services Learn more about hospice care - https://lnkd.in/gwXvCFfK

Death is a topic that many people in the UK shy away from discussing, especially when it comes to talking to children. Some families believe that shielding children from the concept of death is the best way to protect them, but in reality, this approach can leave kids unprepared for dealing with loss later in life. Avoiding discussions about death only perpetuates the fear and discomfort surrounding the topic. By normalising conversations about death and helping children understand it as a natural part of life, we can better equip them to handle grief and loss when they inevitably face it. NAFD Past-President John Adams, recently appointed Funeral Industry Advisor to Child Bereavement UK, says... “I believe schools should be required to provide age-appropriate education to help children understand death as a part of life," he says, "it's important we speak to children about death and dying before they experience a loss so they understand their choices." I couldn't agree more. As a grief specialist, I'm concerned that over a third of people aren’t comfortable bringing the subject up, and 40% don’t know their loved ones' wishes. This needs to change. It's time to break the taboo and start having open and honest conversations about death and loss with our children. Over the next week, I'll be offering a few tips to help us do that. Watch this space. #deathandchildren #talkingaboutdeath

During this Bereaved Parents Awareness Month, we continue to acknowledge the challenges and heartache that our bereaved parents face daily after the unimaginable loss of their child(ren). We also want to raise awareness about the importance of empathy from those supporting the bereaved. Many bereaved parents have shared accounts of unhelpful comments from their support networks. Our society is not well-versed in grief, and these comments often come from a place of discomfort, awkwardness, or lack of knowledge. This RSA short is a light-hearted way to explain the difference between “Empathy” and "Sympathy”. Some important things to remember: • Cliches or silver linings are never helpful. • Don’t rush their grief. • Don’t tell them what they should feel or do. • Don’t try to fix them. If you’re a bereaved parent, share this with your support network as a gentle, light-hearted reminder. https://lnkd.in/gczXj8Df #ambernt #besideyouingrief #saytheirname #conversationsthatmatter #bereavedparentawarenessmonth #childlosssupport #neverforgotten #empathy

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We want to tackle the taboo that is death. We want to encourage people to talk openly about it, in order to make our community as compassionate as can be for those facing end of life or who are experiencing loss and bereavement. We will be at Peverell Library on Tuesday 16 April and Tuesday 23 April between 11am and 1pm talking all things death related, breaking down stigmas and answering any questions you may have. Death Positive Libraries such as Peverell Library will hold collections of books focused on death, dying and grief. There are fiction and non-fiction as well as titles to share with children. Whether you want to help better understand feelings and emotions, plan ahead to improve your death experience or lessen the fear of dying, we hope that by opening the conversation on death we can make our communities more compassionate when it comes to end of life care. Learn more about our compassionate communities here https://bit.ly/2Yrsd5l

Supporting a child after the death of a loved one can be challenging. Treetops Hospice offers guidance on how to navigate these delicate conversations and support children through their grief. Find our guidance here: https://bit.ly/4aZkkd0