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Researchers Uncover Widespread Disparities Affecting Rural Hospice Caregivers

Hospice News

Lagging supportive services around social determinants of health and limited access to hospice and palliative care are driving disparities among rural family caregivers. These determinants, along with the natural stressors of palliative and end-of-life caregiving, disproportionately impact their emotional well-being.”

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Senate Again Takes Up Hospice, Palliative Staffing Bill

Hospice News

Access to high quality palliative and hospice care services is vital for patients and their families,” Capito said in a statement. “As As a caregiver for parents living with Alzheimer’s disease, I saw firsthand just how valuable these services are.

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From the Trenches: Nurse Practitioner Obiora on Where Hospice Succeeds, What Needs to Change

Hospice News

I started as a home health aide, actually, for the hospice patients. So I found myself in hospice, and now I’m a certified hospice and palliative nurse practitioner, focusing on helping to improve the quality of life for patients in the community. It will be providing more time with the patients, more hours.

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Key Research Trends: State CON Laws, Dementia Patient Trajectories Reshaping Hospice

Hospice News

Hospice providers have needed a window into access and utilization, as well as how lawmakers are shaping policies around health care. We know that addressing issues related to quality of hospice care is timely and critical to state (and also federal) lawmakers,” Cagle told Hospice News in an email.

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Explore Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing

Minority Nurse

Hospice and palliative care nurses work in a care giving space that is often difficult and foreign for most families, friends, and other caregivers. Hospice care’s goal is different from the other medical care that a patient has been receiving for their illness.

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Hospice Nurses Take a Holistic Approach to Dementia Care

Nurse.com

“If primary care professionals don’t consider dementia to be a terminal disease, they can lose the opportunity to explore the person’s end-of-life wishes as their cognitive abilities decline,” said Relias Lead Content Writer Susan Heinzerling , BSN, RN, CHPN, who developed the course Managing Advanced Dementia in Hospice.

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Ep. 28 - The Power of Mentoring

HPNA podcast

She utilizes innovative technology and evidence-based interventions to support family caregivers in delivering patient pain management at home. Her federally funded research includes the development and testing of a digital application (e-PainSupport) designed to reduce pain intensity in home hospice patients.