National Hospice & Palliative Care Month 2018
November is National Hospice & Palliative Care Month! It’s a time to recognize the value that end of life care can bring to an...
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Oct 28, 20182 min
Pallimed – Great Resource for Hospice Professionals
If you’re a hospice professional looking to connect with good, up to date information about end of life care, the Pallimed website is...
Oct 21, 20181 min
How to Deal with Grief with Kids
We’re not experts on childhood grief. Here’s what we do know. Children grow up in what seems like a minute. Just when you figure out...
Oct 14, 20181 min
Clergy Appreciation Day 2018
They are counselors. They are guides and comforters. They console, support, and listen. Tireless. Friendly The spiritual care...
Oct 8, 20182 min
How to Be a Remote Caregiver
Is it possible to be a caregiver from a distance? Yes! Lots of caregivers are providing some type of care while living a distance from...
Sep 30, 20182 min
Meet Sue Kemple of My Last Soundtrack!
It’s always exciting to find a person who shares our mission to bring the best to the end of life journey. Our latest “new best friend”...
Sep 23, 20183 min
Long Term Care Decisions
This week’s blog is from our friend Hazel Bridges at agingwellness.org. Making the decision to move yourself or a loved one into a long...
Sep 16, 20182 min
Emergency Preparedness
If you’re someone struggling with health issues or a person caring for a patient, an emergency situation can create more hardship. It’s...
Sep 13, 20181 min
Heartbeart, Episode 106, National Caregiving Conference 2018
The National Caregiving Conference is created by caregivers for caregivers. NCC18 will be in Chicago on November 8-11, and hundreds of...
Sep 9, 20182 min
Self Care Inventory
Here in southeast Texas it really just means hot weather for a few more weeks. The summer heat can wear you out. It’s hard to have the...
Sep 6, 20181 min
Heartbeat, Episode 105, Self Care Inventory
School is beginning and that signals the start of the race towards the end of the year, and that creates greater challenges for our self...
Sep 2, 20182 min
Good Grief
Photo by Jerry Fenter, The Heart of Hospice During the past month The Heart of Hospice podcast has been giving you grief. The good kind....
Aug 26, 20181 min
Heartbeat Announcement from The Heart of Hospice
Heartbeat is the new weekly podcast episode from The Heart of Hospice. Heartbeat has taken the place of the Five for Friday. There’s a...
Aug 26, 20182 min
Announcing Our New Heartbeat
If you’ve been following The Heart of Hospice during the last month, you’ve probably noticed the “extreme makeover” of the HOH website. ...
Aug 19, 20182 min
Happy Birthday to The Heart of Hospice!
The Heart of Hospice is 3 years old this month – wow! In August of 2016, we launched the podcast, and the website and blog followed...
Aug 18, 20182 min
Patient Rights
Here are some of the rights that all hospice patients have: 1. The right to choose which hospice agency they use. 2. The right to choose...
Aug 18, 20183 min
Sleep for Self Care
1 out of every 3 people in the U.S. don’t get enough sleep. It’s no surprise that those statistics are even higher for hospice...
Aug 18, 20181 min
Welcome to The Heart of Hospice Blog
Each week you can find information here about hospice, its history and philosophy. There will be blogs about healthy self care and links...
Jul 8, 20182 min
Happy birthday to Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross!
Dr. Kubler-Ross attended medical school in Zurich, continuing her education here in the U.S. She soon became an outspoken physician,...
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