Selected Tweets, May 9 - May 15

Recommended reading, from Grief Healing's Twitter stream this week:

On Caregiving and Hospice:

• @DrDavidBallard: Using vacation time to help w/ #caregiving? Tips on finding balance (via @APAHelpCenter), http://ow.ly/1KIiD

• Hospice and Caregiving Blog: New Caregivers and Veterans Law, http://bit.ly/9KMMR2
  

• @GraceHouseNH: A musical context 'can help people with dementia remember' http://ht.ly/1KEl1

• Helpful Information: Are you seeing dementia symptoms in your elderly loved one? http://bit.ly/9HO0zK

• Laurel Kennedy answers more of your elder care questions, http://networkedblogs.com/3NoO3

• @doclake: RT @taraparkerpope: Telling Patients the Whole Truth http://nyti.ms/doNtXE
  

• A heartwarmer by Claire Perkins: Love Never Dies | Open to Hope Foundation http://bit.ly/a1eig7

• Dr. Michael Warren: Hospice represents a caring alternative http://bit.ly/cVvv9P

• @NHPCO_news: NHPCO releases statement and commentary on Palliative Sedation Therapy, http://bit.ly/d4bsuB

• @AgeWiseLiving: LifeTalks: Strategies to help you have difficult conversations with your aging parents http://ow.ly/1Jfpm

• @ElderCareRN: Elders and Pet Ownership - A Balance of Love: http://bit.ly/aim1g5

• 5 issues to consider before parents and adult children move in together - http://bit.ly/9xQmqn
  

On Understanding and Managing Grief:

• @Selfhealingexpr: The First Year of Grief: Help for the Journey, by @griefhealing, http://bit.ly/dxIVcT Sensitive online support

• @RiseofYourLife: Hospice organizations provide grief services to widows and widowers of non-patients, too http://bit.ly/d1gMUd

• @moyerfoundation: Children often feel isolated in #grief but rarely receive formal grief counseling http://bit.ly/cWYvAI

• Widow Learns Important Lessons from Her Kids | Open to Hope Foundation http://bit.ly/9Eubtp

• Using Movies to Help Move through Grief http://bit.ly/catXFV 

• Lovely Idea! @DianaSebzda: Memorials For Loved Ones http://bit.ly/cgSS9i

• @GrievingDads: From Kelly Farley, founder of GrievingDads.com: Journey Toward Father's Day http://bit.ly/aOtKYo

• @soaringspirits: RT @HelloGrief: Jill Fitzgerald on learning how to surf the waves of grief http://bit.ly/cl6POY

• A beautiful and touching reflection on Being Present: http://bit.ly/aGq241

 On Mother's Day:

• @DoyleDiana: My Mother's Day with Signs from Heaven - some comfort to 'believe' http://bit.ly/aeds6z

• Clara Hinton: Making Amends After Mom is Gone | Open to Hope Foundation http://bit.ly/ccka1G
  

• Diana Doyle: Mother’s Day Brings Sorrow - and Joy | Open to Hope Foundation http://bit.ly/caR5KI
  

• Dempsey Rice: Mother’s Day Transforms After Mom’s Suicide | Open to Hope Foundation http://bit.ly/9rMKIf

• @KSBuckley: Remembering My Mother: http://bit.ly/968mM1

• Connie Vasquez: The First Mother’s Day Without Mine | Open to Hope Foundation http://bit.ly/9AqLOc

• @soaringspirits: Beautiful Mother's Day message to kids from bereaved dad on Widow's Voice http://bit.ly/bk0kWK

• Lovely! RT @Joannefunch: Mother's Day tribute from @jackietrottmann http://tinyurl.com/29ku2hx 

 On Pet Loss:

• @WorldbytheTail: Is Grief Different When a Pet Disappears? http://bit.ly/c9aqzL 

• @HospiceTweets: Pet hospice provides care for dying pets http://bit.ly/ct0xbM

• @peternity: Help kids mourn loss of pet with Kidoodlyrock, engraved with their own drawing of their pet http://tinyurl.com/pzlm6c 

Other Recommended Listening, Viewing, and Reading:

• Gail Sheehy: Passages in Caregiving | The Diane Rehm Show from WAMU and NPR http://bit.ly/dBbzxH

• @PetsforPatriots: Clueless: most Americans ignorant of issues facing Iraq/Afghanistan #veterans http://ht.ly/1JP2E

• @soaringspirits: Set your DVR NOW: Memorial Day concert (@PBS) - featuring military widows then and now, thanks to @americanWP

•  @Joannefunch: Wow, check out 80-year-old's performance on Britain's Got Talent- never too late to shine, http://tinyurl.com/29hs4e6

• @PetsforPatriots: Shelters, groomers donate pet hair to help #oilspill cleanup, http://bit.ly/bz0Li9 

• Important! @PetsforPatriots: #Veterans react to #AP story on #PTSD fraud, http://bit.ly/9HEoAh 

 Helpful Web Sites:

• Widow Match: from Soaring Spirits Loss Foundation, free widow and widower match programs to connect you with others who understand

• GrievingDads.com: Kelly Farley's mission is helping other bereaved dads, http://bit.ly/ajydAt

• Interregnum: Grief support, education and outreach - "providing meaningful service to all who grieve and to all who care about them."

• The Checkout Line – Daily online advice for both the terminally ill and their friends and relatives - "Every week day your questions about dying - how it affects you, how to deal with it - will be answered."