Hospice News March 11, 2025
Hospices may be seeing a growing need for trauma-informed bereavement services on the horizon. Shaping their grief support programs with this trend in mind will be pivotal to hospices’ ability to expand the depth and reach of their services.
This is according to Chloe Bishop, bereavement and social work supervisor at Maryland-based Frederick Health Hospice. The community-based nonprofit provides hospice and palliative care, as well as grief support and veterans programs.
Among the significant challenges facing bereavement care teams in today’s hospice landscape is rising demand for trauma-informed grief support, Bishop said in a recent Hospice News Elevate podcast episode.
“We have responded to a growing awareness of the need for support with overdose loss and other traumatic losses as...