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Key Palliative Care Trends to Watch in 2024

Hospice News

of the country’s total population, according to a 2015 report by the U.S. Today, many palliative programs are supported by philanthropic donations or treated as a loss leader that can feed referrals to other services like hospice care. For starters, we have the continued expansion of the chronically ill senior population.

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Supporting parents to communicate with their premature baby – why do we need to explore this?

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

2019; Rabie et al, 2015) which can significantly impact on educational achievements and the ability to engage socially during early years. Studies have investigated approaches such as early feeding and skin to skin care, which are important for bonding and parent mental health outcomes (Baley et al., Pediatrics. 136(3):596-599.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. Julien, let’s start off with, congratulations by the way and Lauren too, the CHEST paper that just got published on Trends in Geriatric Conditions Among Older Adults in the ICU between 1998 and 2015. It won’t take long, go get it by yourself.” Eric: Yeah. Alex: Yeah.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

And Katie, I was going through your Twitter feed, and a tweet I noticed was this one, “All opioid guidelines caution long-term use in people with active substance use disorder.” But I think one aspect there was, what’s up with cancer pain, in general? Is cancer pain really different? Should we be excluding it?

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

And we looked at the electronic health records at both of those hospital systems, the MGB network, folks who had fee-for-service Medicare coverage from October 2015 to about September 2017, 6,800 patients. You’ll have a feeding tube. You may end up there indefinitely. Those kinds of things I think resonate more with people.

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Population Health, Quality, and Palliative Care: The Role of Public and Private Payors

AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

Data have shown that of the top 5% of healthcare utilization in the US, only 11% are at the end of life (Aldridge & Kelly, 2015). Center to Advance Palliative Care (2015). media.capc.org/filer_public/0f/2f/0f2f8662-15cf-4680-baa8-215dd97fbde6/payer-providertoolkit-2015.pdf References: Aldridge MD, Kelley AS. 2015.302889.

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Ep.7: How to Navigate Social Media Marketing in Home-Based Care

Home Care Pulse

Like, there’s nothing that turns me off more if I go to a blog and they haven’t posted since 2015. It’s not what I wanna see on my feed. Is it, do you you see it as detrimental to say start a channel or start a blog or any sort of digital content that you’re presenting and then you don’t keep up with it?

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