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The Case for Integrating Social Determinants Into Palliative Care

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Individually, palliative care and social determinants programs both have the potential to improve quality of life and reduce costs — but that potential may be greater when the two are combined. Programs to address social determinants have likewise been found to reduce health care expenditures. Case in point, the U.S.

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Palliative Care Patients Receiving Psychosocial Support More Likely to Choose Hospice

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Researchers in Israel studied 180 hospitalized cancer patients between November 2018 and March 2020. They found that patients who utilized social worker, psychologist and/or chaplain services chose to forgo aggressive treatments in their final days more often than those who had not, according to results published in the journal Oncology.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

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Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life.

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HopeHealth’s Dr. Leah McDonald Sees ‘System-Wide Embedding’ of Palliative Skills

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McDonald graduated in 2020 from HopeHealth’s hospice and palliative medicine fellowship program. A systematic overhaul of the nation’s health care education programs is needed to ensure that future clinicians are prepared to provide palliative and hospice care amid rising demand, according to Dr. Leah McDonald of HopeHealth.

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Hospices Stepping Up Performance on Visits-in-Last-Days-of-Life Measure

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The number of registered nurse and social worker visits during a patient’s final week is one of the seven quality measures that CMS uses to evaluate providers. Social worker visits in the last days of life also rose to 9% in 2021, up from 7% in 2020. In 2019, for example, the percentage was 66%.

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Penn Bay Medical Center Deepens Roots in Community-Based Palliative Care

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Additional palliative team members included Kim Danforth, a licensed social worker, and Brooke Simmons as its new medical assistant. The Pine Tree State had the highest volume of seniors compared to any other state across the country in 2020, outranking only Florida and Vermont that year at 21.2% Census Bureau.

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Preventing Burnout Among Palliative Care Employees

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The emotional toll of caring for the seriously ill contributes to high rates of burnout among palliative care workers. A 2020 meta-analysis of 15 studies on burnout among palliative care nurses found a 24% prevalence for emotional exhaustion, 30% for depersonalization and 28% for feelings of low personal accomplishment.