Hospice News

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

At such a vulnerable time, it is important for families to have a resource like a patient care unit right in their backyard. AMOREM provides comfort and understanding in ensuring that their compassionate and incredibly skilled nurses are there to support patients and families.

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2024

When the system overlooks caregiver contributions, it also overlooks the support they need to enable better patient care. Caregivers often feel overwhelmed, lost, and burnt out, which can lead to increased ER visits, higher readmission rates, and an overall decline in patient outcomes.”

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Shining Light Hospice

APRIL 8, 2022

Typically each hospice team consists of an RN case manager who is the primary contact person and who will carry out the bulk of the patient care. The attending physician oversees all care provided. Home Health aides are available to assist with activities of daily living such as bathing and personal care.

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Shining Light Hospice

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The focus of hospice is to help each person to live out their remaining days with peace, comfort and dignity and comfort care is aimed at ensuring a patient maintains quality of life and that all symptoms are managed. The physician will oversee all care while on hospice. Chaplains are also available for spiritual care.

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Seasons Hospice

JUNE 28, 2022

Hospice care can be provided in a variety of settings, including hospitals, nursing homes, and even in patients’ homes. Hospice care is typically provided by a team of health care professionals that includes doctors, nurses, social workers, chaplains, and volunteers.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

DECEMBER 13, 2021

For instance, if you have a patient with a lot of family “drama,” you might want to get the social worker involved so you can focus on providing nursing care while the social worker focuses on social issues. RELATED ARTICLE: Self-Care- 10 Ways to Cope When Your Patient Dies.

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Shining Light Hospice

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Because each patient experiences dementia symptoms somewhat uniquely, the timing of each stage is rather unpredictable to some point. In general, each stage progressively worsens ending in the need for total patient care. When Is It Time for Hospice Care? It also provides grief support.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

He, there’s so much focus given to bereavement and grief as well, and he fears that again, there’s just not enough thought giving to what that dying person themselves is going through, whether they’re afraid to die with any secrets surrounded by platitudes. Those five years, those patients taught me what dying was like.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. How it works is that all patients will have access or encounters with the specialty trained clinician, a psychologist, a social worker, a palliative care clinician.

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