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Our colleague Barbara Karnes is one of the most well-known hospice experts in the U.S. She’s the author of a widely used booklet on end...
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Dec 19, 20201 min
How to Decide: Home Health vs Hospice
Sometimes patients and families are challenged by the decision to stick with home health services or choose hospice care. It’s a hard...
Dec 5, 20202 min
Self Care Survival for the Holidays
How’s your Self Care going? It’s been a challenge to stay healthy during the last 9 months. Now it’s time to deal with the 2020...
Nov 20, 20201 min
Hospice Professionals Need Care, Too
caringinfo.org In November we’re celebrating National Hospice and Palliative Care Month. It’s a good time to remember that not only does...
Nov 4, 20201 min
You Need Self Care.
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Oct 22, 20202 min
Making the Death Talks Easier with Lisa Newburger of Discuss Directives
Let’s talk about death – it’ll be fun. (Said no one ever.) Actually, someone is saying it. And Lisa Newburger of Discuss Directives...
Oct 7, 20202 min
Speak the Unspeakable
In hospice we speak the language of the dying. I’m not being morbid. It’s just what we do. End of life care is designed to care for...
Sep 24, 20202 min
The Heart of Hospice Podcast Can Help
Since The Heart of Hospice podcast launched four years ago, we’ve talked about a wide variety of topics. There’s information everybody...
Sep 10, 20201 min
Find the Care You Deserve at Care Compare from CMS
If you’re searching for information on a care provider in your area, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has launched a...
Aug 29, 20201 min
Self Care isn’t Just About Thriving – It’s About Surviving
Self Care. You need it. We all do. What is Self Care good for? The stress of world events, the pandemic, and natural disasters here...
Aug 14, 20202 min
Remember Who We Are
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the multiple changes we’ve had to make in hospice. Wearing PPE like never before, dealing with...
Jul 28, 20201 min
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
The Heart of Hospice, LLC It’s an understatement to say we’re going through a lot of changes as a country. The same is true for the...
Jul 15, 20202 min
This Means You
Tomorrow, July 16th, is National Healthcare Decisions Day 2.0. Founded by healthcare attorney Nathan Kottkamp and sponsored by The...
Jul 7, 20202 min
Walking Your Journey With You
When someone is facing a serious illness, management of his or health becomes a 24/7 job. Everything seems to revolve around caregiving,...
Jun 30, 20202 min
Non-Essential is a Four Letter Word
Full disclosure – I’m tired of hearing the word “non-essential” applied to people. It especially bothers me to hear the term applied to...
Jun 23, 20202 min
Things That Make Us
The things that make me different are the things that make me. – Winnie the Pooh There’s a lot of wisdom in Pooh’s statement. We’re...
Jun 14, 20202 min
It’s a Sunny Day!
Time for an update on Sunny! Sunny is a goldendoodle who came to live with my family when he was 8 weeks old. He’s about 5 1/2 months...
Jun 7, 20202 min
Walking with You
It seems like the whole country is grieving. Maybe even the whole world. Grieving the loss of our sense of security and safety. ...
May 31, 20203 min
How Flexible is Your Self Care?
So many things have changed. Where we can go and when. How many of us can go inside a place at one time. Whether we can visit our...
May 24, 20202 min
Steel Magnolia Time
“That which does not kill us, makes us stronger.” Every good Southern woman knows the famous line from the movie Steel Magnolias. It...
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