Caregiving and Hospice, July 10 - July 16, 2011

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

• Benefits of Hospice and Palliative Care with Scott Irwin, MD, PHD, http://bit.ly/nslPvi 

• HFA develops free online webinar, Addressing Cultural Diversity in Hospice Care, http://bit.ly/ribaMk via @hospice_news

• Must read! Beware of This Financial Advice About Aging Parents http://bit.ly/nVj445 #caregiving via @ShelleyWebbRN

• Thoughtful piece on hospice by Chris Langston, http://bit.ly/r4Pc27 via @HartfordFdn @NHPForum @davidccolby 

• Honoring mother's wish for natural death without feeling remorse, http://trib.in/oOoyQ2 via @Robert_Fried

• Hospice: the best humankind has to offer, http://bit.ly/oc2wEB via @hvto

• Death and Budgets - NYTimes.com, http://nyti.ms/qAk4Kj

• Modernizing: Dying Rituals Have Gone Electronic, http://ow.ly/5CEl4 via @VillageMemorial 

• Outstanding resource for planning, honoring end-of-life decisions: Caring Advocates, http://bit.ly/rlFYSM 

• Medicare how-to: Ins and Outs of Medicare, http://lat.ms/p8Df5Z via @ShelleyWebbRN @caregiving

• MSW with own chronic illness shares lessons learned working in hospice, http://bit.ly/nmZ6rM via @petpeaceofmind

• It’s Only Alzheimers, Not the Bloody Plague! http://bit.ly/o9yQDH by @StanGoldberg (Read the poem too!)