Hospice News
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
of hospice enrollees in 2019, up from 9% in 2002, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO). “Our study shows that current health care models for the disease are not always equipped for the sustained burdens of dementia, resulting in inadequate end-of-life care, or even none at all.”
Hospice News
OCTOBER 10, 2024
During his tenure, he has helped to develop and oversee the launch of the NPHI Innovation Lab, which focuses on designing systematic approaches to improve advanced illness care by examining trends in population health, claims analytics and practice optimization. Muir was previously chief innovation officer at Capital Caring Health.
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Hospice News
MARCH 15, 2024
Close to 5,900 hospices operated in the United States during 2002. More than 49% of Medicare decedents enrolled in hospice care during 2022, up from 47.3% In order to serve the American public, Congress should ensure hospice providers are reimbursed to provide the end-of-life care people want and deserve.”
Hospice News
MAY 26, 2022
Iowa in 2018 ranked seventh for hospice utilization among Medicare decedents at 56.2%, according to the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization. Like in much of the country, aging demographics are driving up demand for end-of-life care in the Hawkeye State. Utah held the highest rate that year at 60.5%.
Hospice News
DECEMBER 30, 2024
In honor of these achievements, he was awarded the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights, and, in 2002, the Nobel Peace Prize. Indeed, at a time when hospices have been battered in the national press, the former president served as a shining example of how hospice care can benefit patients.
Hospice News
AUGUST 23, 2024
“For people who don’t have a caregiver in their home, we can put them in our facility and they can live there until their natural death, and they’ll have access to specially trained caregivers in end-of-life care,” Strzalka told local news. The hospice facility is projected to reopen in the fall.
Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs
NOVEMBER 26, 2023
Dignity Therapy (DT) is a brief psycho-therapeutic intervention that assists individuals with shortened life expectancies to have meaning and purpose (Chochinov, 2012). DT was developed following the construction of the Dignity Conserving Model of Care (Chochinov, 2002). 2012) Dignity Therapy: Final words for final days.
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