Dec 26, 2023
Caregivers are the backbone of the care that’s provided for a hospice patient. Many of them are family members who are there 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It can be exhausting.
On this episode Rosalind Hall-Hiner, the System Director of Social Workers for Harbor Hospice, is providing some practical tips and...
Dec 12, 2023
The holiday season is loaded with hopes and dreams and expectations. For those who are providing care for someone on hospice the holidays can be difficult to manage. Rosalind Hall-Hiner is the System Director of Social Workers for Harbor Hospice and Beacon Hospice. In this episode she shares ways that caregivers can...
Nov 28, 2023
In part two of our series on the most common hospice diagnoses, Hannah Brightwell, clinical liaison with Harbor Hospice explains about the characteristics and hospice criteria for cancer diagnoses and lung diseases. In part one she explained the hospice criteria for neurological and cardiac diseases.
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Nov 14, 2023
In the early days of hospice care in the United States, cancer was the main reason someone might be admitted to hospice. Now, 50 plus years later, cancer is the third most common diagnosis in hospice. The most common group of diagnoses today are neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's, dementia, and Parkinson's,...
Oct 31, 2023
November is almost here and that means the holidays are right around the corner. For many people the holidays are not a season of joy and cheer, but a time of grief and sadness. Holidays are times when families come together and the death of an important person in the family can make holidays feel heavy. In this...