Caregiving and Hospice, March 6 - March 12

Best selections from Grief Healing's Twitter stream this week:

• Study: Hospice care benefits survivors too, http://bit.ly/g3n3ud via @DrDignity @hospice_news

• Volunteers make sure no one is alone at the end of life, http://bit.ly/gK4ePD via @annbilott @hospicepharmacy

• New guide dog leads both man and previous, now-blind guide dog, http://ow.ly/4c0VP via @amcny @PetDecisions

• End of Life Resource Centre: a valuable online resource, http://bit.ly/11Rtya via @jlunney_mp

• Wonderful video on value of pets when loved one is on hospice, http://ow.ly/4bJt8 via @petpeaceofmind

• Helping Patients Make Peace with Death, http://bit.ly/hcIT9g

• Palliative Care Consulations: Answer to Medicaid Woes, http://t.co/cxm4LAm by @GeriPal

• Choose palliative care & save money http://bit.ly/h6gUgP via @EngageWithGrace

• Isn't this a case when majority should rule? http://fb.me/FkaQ9qiB via @EngageWithGrace

• Volunteering by the aging is giving back, http://tinyurl.com/4gxqr92 by @caracappa

• Great article: "If we'd only called hospice sooner," http://bit.ly/hVvxi2 by @HospiceGSO via @elderpages @hospice_mktg

• Reflections from a former hospice music therapist, http://wp.me/p1gF4D-28 by @JessEdwards45 via @RachelleNorman

• Excellent audio: Are you a good listener? http://bit.ly/eqOkOs by @GriefScope

• What Palliative Care means http://bit.ly/eWmyPk via @Hospicecny 

• Help support documentary on hospice in prisons http://bit.ly/exjfGz

• Great interview with hospice medical director Ann Allegre, http://t.co/6DVk1QG via @hospiceMTBC @ctsinclair 

• Dogs connect when humans cannot: Pet Therapy in Hospice, http://bit.ly/giZM4o via @hospicepharmacy 

• Ken Doka: Understanding The Spiritual Needs of the Dying, http://huff.to/ez4AIt via @hfahospice 

• Authentic healer or huckster? http://bit.ly/hV1t8O « Schlagbytes

• Death: The Last Taboo, http://t.co/43sCwDX via @lugstew

• Choosing to Die Alone? http://hospicedoctor.blogspot.com/ by @hospice_doctor

• Beautiful documentary about a hospice program -- in prison, http://vimeo.com/19334970 via @BodyAwareGrief