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Kayla Bonkowski | The Grief Nobody Prepares a Family For
There are two grief periods in a terminal illness. Most families only know about one of them. The grief that comes after a death is the one people expect. The condolence calls, the casseroles, the cards. Society has rituals for it. What happens before the death is less acknowledged and, for many families, significantly harder…
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Kayla Bonkowski | What Hospice Social Workers Actually Do All Day
The role is one of the least understood in end-of-life care. Most families can describe what the hospice nurse does. The social worker is harder to explain. Most families cannot describe what a hospice social worker does. They can describe the nurse. They can describe the physician who signed the hospice order. The social worker…