Caregiving and Hospice, October 16 - October 22, 2011

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

• Keeping a Wheelchair-bound Loved One Comfortable http://ow.ly/75yP4 MT @CaregiverTweets

• Benefits of palliative care for seriously ill, http://ow.ly/72zwH via @ContinuumHCH @GetPalliative

• Personal stories about people's experience with hospice, http://ow.ly/73Xnq MT @HouHospice

• Jane Gross on the Failings of Medicare - Excellent review, http://ow.ly/74Olk by @geri_doc on @geripalblog 

• Caregiving Dilemma: The Undeserving Parent, nyti.ms/mQrtuO by @nytimeshealth via @emilybarryPR

• End of Life Surgery: Put Quality Over Slim Hope, http://bit.ly/r7wOPv RT @hospicepharmacy

• In caregiving, learning to accept help is hard, http://bit.ly/oBUJwB by @StoryForHealing 

• Hospice in a Death-Denying Society, http://bit.ly/q4pJWA via @JenMarsh2 

• End-of-life care: Extending life, or prolonging death? http://bit.ly/mSOXsK via @hospicepharmacy

• How would you prepare for a good death? http://ow.ly/730A2 MT @VillageMemorial 

• Late-Stage Dementia Patients Are Transferred Too Much, http://ow.ly/73pI7 via @RedefineHospice

• Soldier's Heart: Support for Returning Vets, http://j.mp/nwhaHL 

• Why nursing homes need more doctors on site, http://j.mp/nn3aii

• Fire safety tips for seniors, http://ow.ly/71L3J via @VillageMemorial 

• 8 warning signs a loved one's finances are off track, http://aarp.us/rhZH1C via @CaringPeopleInc via @AARP

• Study: Relationships more important than genetics in family caregiving, http://ht.ly/72eTb via@PalmHealthcare 

• When the elderly hoard, http://tinyurl.com/4y9qpom via @caracappa 

• Horrible! My Father’s End-Of-Life Treatment: Not What He Had In Mind, http://bit.ly/qgc4ti via  @HospiScript

• Restoring memories through movies, http://ow.ly/70cnj via @AmyGoyer 

• 7 tips to find the best music for movement/exercise, http://wp.me/pfeG5-pj by @RachelleNorman

• How to address respectfully a person with dementia, http://goo.gl/fb/E2oRs via @ALZHEIMERSread 

• Scary stuff: How Medicare Fails the Elderly, http://nyti.ms/nWGWVI @nytimes via @Atul_Gawande 

• Parenting a Child with no future - Excellent, http://nyti.ms/pVaVrX via @PediPT