Famcare
JUNE 21, 2023
While about 1,800 veterans die each day, few receive hospice care at end of their life. Social workers remind us that veterans have specific needs due to their time in service that hospice teams are specifically trained to address. There are more than 20 million veterans in our country, and more than half of them are over age 65.
Hospice Chaplaincy
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
Saul Ebema Depression is a normal reaction to death and dying. I remember visiting a hospice patient who was suffering from depression. It could be triggered by different factors as the terminally ill patient begins to contemplate death. It could be triggered by spiritual pain.
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Untipsy Teacher
SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Yesterday, we signed up my 96 year old mom to get hospice care. The doctor insisted we get hospice soon. The hospice nurses are wonderful. Feel a bit depressed, but working hard not to let it get worse. .” The Book of Joy. We picked up my mom from the hospital. It turns out her heart is failing.
Social Workers Speak
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
I had conversations with palliative and hospice care physicians, nurses and social workers that comforted me, surprised me and challenged my own assumptions about death. Depression is a leading cause of disability around the world, the World Health Organization wrote in a report. Maybe they will for you, too.
Social Workers Speak
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
When trauma isn’t clinically diagnosed and professionally treated, it still can manifest as moodiness, anxiety, anger, addictive tendencies, or depression. Whether in direct practice or in research and academia, we should work together to help Hospice and Palliative Care Social Work meet its full potential. Mountain Xpress.
Relias
JULY 12, 2022
Leaders in assisted living, skilled nursing, home health, rehab therapy, wound care, and hospice know you can’t hire all the skills your organization will need tomorrow and in the future. The speed of change in healthcare requires post-acute care organizations to take a different approach to job preparedness.
Social Workers Speak
JUNE 1, 2023
Kara Carter and Mercedes Bern-Klug are members of NASW-IA: A new mindset on mental health University of Iowa When Kara Carter started out as a practitioner of social work in southern Colorado , she quickly found that her expertise in mental health was badly needed—not just by the hospice agency that hired her, but by the community she lived in. “I
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