Caregiving and Hospice, March 4 - March 10, 2012

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

• An RN's perspective on end-of-life in hospitals and what needs to be changed, http://j.mp/wHYrUx
  
  
• What Do Hospice Social Workers Do? http://j.mp/xUKtgF via @HFAHospice
  
  
• Employer Best Practices for Workers with Caregiving Responsibilities, http://1.usa.gov/Au2eh7 via @chooseworkSSA
  
  
• Dr. Ira Byock on Transforming the Way We Die, http://bit.ly/xIjIvS via @RedefineHospice and  @hospicepharmacy
  
  
• Who does what on the hospice care team? http://bit.ly/zV4es4  via @SolariHospice
• 3 Fresh Ways to Work Around Someone Else's Denial in Caregiving, http://j.mp/zCvER3
  
  
• Powerful! Hospice Champion Congressman on end of life choices, http://fb.me/17MMzMfdM  via  @NHPCO_news
  
  
• Outstanding! How to die like a doctor: Pre-Illness Phase, http://onforb.es/yPy7GP by @CarolynMcC via @Forbes
  
  
• 'Best Care' may be dying well, say hospice and palliative care physicians, http://j.mp/wVdIKn
  
  
• Great dialogue! Parents Struggle With Being Cared For By Kids, http://n.pr/wptqiv from @Jennings_JCOA via @nprnews
  
  
• Lovely! How Music Therapy Brought a Couple Together Again, http://j.mp/z2aXHQ
  
  
• Pet Therapy: How Animals And Humans Heal Each Other, bit.ly/zcbHC1 via @KSBuckley
  
  
• Helping Kids with death of a parent, http://bit.ly/yVO8lN Diane Rehm show on NPR, via  @TCRollinsCFRE
• Lovely! Why I'm a Hospice Social Worker, http://ow.ly/9sPXZ via @PassagesHospice
  
  
• New compendium of NHPCO articles looks at hospice in the continuum of care, http://bit.ly/yVSEra via @NHPCO_news
  
  
• "When I Needed Help, Part 2," http://ow.ly/9u8xo from @elderlawnewyork via @nytimes
  
  
• Patient gift registry and social network for caregiving, http://medgift.com
  
  
• Hospice of the Valley's executive director among AZ's Most Intriguing Women, http://j.mp/zftlfZ
  
  
• Helpful! From @AARP: Lab Results Decoded (USA), http://aarp.us/xdJsAZ via @elderpages @ShelleyWebbRN
  
  
• Benefits of Pet Therapy in hospice, http://n.pr/zXHwW6  from @nprnews via @AliveHospice
  
  
• Cold nose, warm heart: pet therapy in hospice care, http://wp.me/p1HmLc-aC via @cjbryant
  
  
• In hospice care, skip the chicken soup and focus on the soul, http://bit.ly/yW9kFo via @KSkipperFoster
  
  
• To survive with cancer, you need to accept that you are going to die, http://j.mp/yc1EHF
  
  
• At end-of-life, Who Wants to Talk about Sex? http://j.mp/zwA1qp via GeriPal