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Researchers Uncover Widespread Disparities Affecting Rural Hospice Caregivers

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Researchers from Michigan State University’s School of Nursing recently dug into the geographic and psychosocial challenges that rural family caregivers experience when providing community-based palliative and hospice care. The researchers’ analysis spanned the experiences of 1,470 caregivers across 18 studies from 2010 to 2023.

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

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And it’s why until Areej was a pioneer in this area, people really weren’t figuring out how to integrate palliative and supportive care services for patients with heme malignancies. Jennifer: It was 2010. Eric: 2010. Eric: I’m going to go back in time a little bit.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

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Eric 07:31 A clinical perspective, why is it important to test this stepped care model versus implementing more? Chris 07:41 Yeah, it’s a really interesting thing, because the 2010 article was solving the problem of, hey, send us patients, we promise we won’t kill them. What we know was evidence based before?