Hospice and Caregiving, March 20 - March 26

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

• Messages to Loved Ones offers Hospice, Alzheimer's, others a way to preserve, share, tell their stories, http://bit.ly/gNIICk by @EarlC

• Maintaining sexual intimacy at the end of life, http://bit.ly/hQFrcf by @angelamorrow

• Advice on talking about end-of-life care, http://ow.ly/1bVHeF via @RecordEagle

• Free tip sheet to support Alzheimers caregivers, http://bit.ly/gNR75C by @HlthAdvocate via @HealthProponent

• Informative! Caregiving as seen from two sides, http://bit.ly/hcN525 via @seniorhomes

• Must read @NHDD's Have the Talk News Roundup, http://bit.ly/eoqct0 by @MatthewsMichele

• Dog delights, comforts hospice patients, http://bit.ly/fZqrOk via @RedefineHospice 

• Touching: Nurse-daughter accepts hospice care for her mom, http://bit.ly/hMPX4p by @HospiceCareSC via @klove1017

• Outstanding! Brochure to help older adults safely navigate technologies, http://bit.ly/e7Wq4j via @elderpages

• How keeping pets benefit seniors, http://bit.ly/fWGJZG via @ShelleyWebbRN @FirstLightCare 

• Your Story: When No One Seems to Understand, http://bit.ly/hb33or 

• Need to unwind, relax? Try Virtual Meditation, http://budurl.com/ak9v by @DrJennifer via @markhundley

• Cancer is not a war, http://bit.ly/fCDBrA

• Culinary Caregiving: Etiquette of Bringing Meals to Friends, http://bit.ly/g3Dppc via @cooking4care

• Daily routine takes on new meaning when caring for a hospice patient, http://bit.ly/hIP8ll by @StoryForHealing 

• Irish Hospice Foundation study aims to understand deathbed experiences, http://bit.ly/fRtAzx via @hospicepharmacy 

• Beautiful essay: how serving differs from helping by Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, http://bit.ly/gMcC0r via @mission_hospice

• Helping Hand Run raises $4000 for Hospice of the Valley in Phoenix AZ, http://bit.ly/hes1eR

• Stunning post: Does chance favor the prepared soul? http://bit.ly/ggrSXF via @hospice_doctor @Pallimed 

• Needed: open, honest communication about death,dying, early referral, http://bit.ly/fid9EY via @hospice_mktg 

• Gabrielle Giffords' husband Mark Kelly gave the closing prayer, http://ow.ly/1bQFCT by @RecordEagle 

• New Passages: Tackling the caregiver crisis, http://usat.ly/hzslAd via @CareLab @florence247