Caregiving and Hospice, October 28 - November 3, 2012

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

• How to Reach Out During National Family Caregivers Month, http://bit.ly/SC0oRX @Caring via @VoiceQuilt
  
  
• Patient with difficulty swallowing pills? Check out these tips, http://j.mp/QbRUTa via @MedStarVNA
  
  
• Comfort. Love. Respect. Hospice Month Proclamation, http://j.mp/PLMH4o « National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
  
  
• "Not eating at the end of life is a normal part of the dying process.We have forgotten that," http://bit.ly/QYWQHT
  
  
• Beautiful! "We don’t die inhaling…" about leaving this life, http://j.mp/Psamp6 by hospice nurse @AmyGetter
  
• It's a team effort at Hospice of the Valley in Phoenix, AZ, http://j.mp/Wg5ebK
  
  
• Celebrating Hospice, National Hospice Month, http://bit.ly/WftJ94 from @JenMarsh2 via @ThElizabethHosp
  
  
• Hospice is Peace. Share what hospice is to you during hospice month this November and we'll retweet! pic.twitter.com/ijXxMKIc
  
  
• Jane Gross: Medicare, Part D, Part 2,  http://j.mp/TWX6Wq « New York Times
  
  
• Holding Memories: hospice nurse provides patients, families with lasting keepsake, http://j.mp/RvKXao
  
  
• Tips to help properly manage medications, http://ow.ly/eUp6h by @mountainsidemed
  
  
• Great article on Nonverbal Communication, http://buff.ly/SpjyLK by @StevenHandel via @CaregivingCafe
  
  
• Importance of emotional connections at end of life, http://j.mp/QZZ9ul from @SanDiegoHospice via @hospice_mktg
  
  
• Top 10 Must-have Free Apps for Seniors, http://j.mp/QUEaJr | Caregiving Cafe
  
  
• Is to resuscitate or not to resuscitate: Is that the right question? http://ow.ly/bpfBD from @PalliativeCares via @BostonDotCom and @SolariHospice
  
  
• Sharing images, stories: The American Nurse Project, http://j.mp/PFoaOs
  
  
• Nurses, Addicted to Helping People, http://nyti.ms/V4yKzD via @hospicepharmacy
  
  
• Study: Cancer physicians often delay referrals to palliative care, http://j.mp/Upu0Q1« Chicago Tribune via @NaheedD
  
  
• Great information! Technology for Aging in Place, http://j.mp/V5hgTO « EmpowerAbility® , LLC

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