Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2025

million decedents from January 2018 through December 2019, and hospice quality data from November 2020 through August 2022. Systematic changes are needed to improve outcomes, including greater and more transparent education for patients and families about their end-of-life care options, they stated.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2024

Many elderly Americans follow one of three place of care trajectories during the last three years of life, researchers from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, found in a study recently published in BMC Geriatrics. These include the home, skilled home care and institutional care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2024

Black Americans are frequently denied access to hospice and palliative care due to structural racism, and many of those communities lack sufficient information to make end-of-life care decisions, new research has found. Access to hospice and palliative care is perceived as lacking. were Hispanic; 1.8%

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Cassidy is a nurse practitioner, board-certified in palliative care, who also worked for 30 years as a professor of nursing. During her clinical practice in a hospital, she recognized that the end-of-life care needs of some patient populations were not being met. “So It’s a gap in the continuum of care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 9, 2022

This reflects issues that exist throughout the larger health care system, including among providers upstream of hospice that assist patients with advance care planning. A 2018 AARP study found that 60% of the LGBTQ+ community is concerned about a lack of sensitivity to their needs among health care providers.

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Hospice News

MARCH 10, 2023

Croix Hospice since 2018, previously serving as director of marketing and communications. Croix Hospice continues to grow in response to the need for expert hospice care throughout the Midwest,” Bartness said in a statement. Patients at the hospice house receive 24/7 inpatient end-of-life care from nurses and aides.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Oregon-based Compassion & Choices is a national end-of-life care advocacy organization focused on building health equity. Researchers at the nonprofit examined 58 studies published between 2018 and 2021 on these disparities. Hispanics made up 6.7% Caucasians represented the remaining 80%, NHPCO reported.

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Hospice News

JULY 1, 2022

Kaweah Health Hospice staff will oversee the hospice facility’s day-to-day operations and medical care, which will be provided by a team of nurses, home health aides, social workers and chaplains. In line with national trends, the area’s aging population is projected to grow and raise demand for end-of-life care and related services.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Currently the differences in the availability of children’s palliative care services vary considerably (Hakanson et al 2017; Renton et al 2018; Mitchell et al 2019), and where these services are available the provision is not consistent (Fraser, Fleming and Paslow 2018; Mitchell et al 2019; Malcolm and Knighting 2021).

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Hospice News

JUNE 22, 2023

We don’t have all the personal things that are really between the caregiver and the patient,” Joe Lyons, research coordinator for SEIU’s health care division, told Hospice News. “It’s All said their HCA hospitals pushed palliative and end-of-life care in pursuit of better performance metrics,” NBC News reported.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The JAMA Network Open study found that more than half of cancer decedents in states that require health care providers to offer palliative consultations died at home or at inpatient hospices versus a hospital setting. 2 ‘It’s Where We’re at Right Now’: US Prison System Struggling to Keep Up with Growing Need for Palliative Care (Aug.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 3, 2024

How the act of drawing can help us sloooow down, pay attention to the people and world around us, and ultimately let go… The possibility of incorporating drawings in research and even clinical care. The wisdom and experiences of hospice caregivers (who are often underpaid and undervalued). Frank, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

I’m the senior nurse educator at H C P, Speaker 1 ( 00:25 ): And you’re listening to Vision, the podcast for leaders and forward thinkers in the care industry. Today we’ll be discussing the importance of unifying the care continuum for end of life care. Speaker 3 ( 00:38 ): Hi, glad to be here.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

And what was notable for me and what really drew me into this space was a recognition that advanced care planning is a longitudinal communication process that ideally engages surrogate decision makers in repeated conversations. And I have a long interest in identifying family caregivers and supporting them in care delivery.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Combined, Asians, African Americans and Hispanics in 2018 represented only 20% of Medicare hospice patients, while the remaining 80% were Caucasian, according NHPCO. Different health systems often fail to serve these families because they don’t have the right resources or because it’s very difficult to manage care.”.

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