Hospice News

APRIL 10, 2024

Wladkowski, the Larry and Patty Benz Professor and an associate professor of social work at Bowling Green State University. When these services cannot be replicated, patients and caregivers are left to deal with the loss of these services, citing experiences of grief and abandonment.” Among the changes that the U.S.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The organization’s volunteers also provided companionship, caregiver respite, therapeutic massages, meal delivery, construction tasks, errands and recording of life histories, among others services. Patients and caregivers have been educated on when to call 911 for immediate life-threatening illness.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Callaway previously worked as a nurse manager of UnityPoint Health. She joins the organization with a background in social work and has been in the health care field for roughly 25 years. Elara Caring saw its caregiver workforce grow by 21% during the second quarter as a result of these efforts. “At

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Hospice News

MARCH 2, 2023

Are there ways for providers to enhance the support they offer to families and caregivers to ensure that their efforts and contributions to the patient’s care are sustainable? I think that as a nation we don’t value caregivers in a way that would make it easier on them. I think that is really difficult.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Building a Collaborative Care program provided the financial infrastructure to allow our team of social workers to expand our services and address many of the behavioral health needs of our patients, as well as our medical social work line,” Walton told Palliative Care News. For patients dealing with cancer, this is essential.

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

Though CON regulations are not necessarily an indicator of quality, size or ownership status, they can give lawmakers a window into the relationship between quality and oversight, as well as other variables that impact end-of-life experiences, according to John Cagle, associate professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Social Work. “We

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Hospice News

JUNE 13, 2022

Additionally, helping patients understand how to craft clear advance directives and assigning medical power of attorney to a partner or spouse are crucial tasks that the social work team needs to have experience in supporting. How can providers work to increase access to care? Hospice care would be unbiased and equal.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Our findings showed improvement in HCI measures which drive quality, including increased nursing and social work visits and time spent in the home to support patients and their loved ones and caregivers in the last seven days of life,” Nangle said. Even more importantly, it’s helping with staff satisfaction.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

HealthFlex provides home health, hospice, palliative care, social work, and personal care. Our strategy is where we have home health care, we move in our hospice and our caregiving service line as well,” Koshevatsky told Hospice News. Oakland, California-based Healthflex has made Inc.’s s list several years running.

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Daily Nurse

APRIL 4, 2023

Conway attended the meeting with the surgeon at her patient’s request and coordinated social work meetings. The program will be offered at Northwell’s ten cancer centers in communities across Long Island, Queens, Manhattan, Staten Island, and Westchester. Zuckerberg Cancer Center in New Hyde Park. Trained as an oncology nurse, Ms.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. But watch out! Travel time can leave this champ vulnerable to fatigue and no-shows.

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Seasons Hospice

MARCH 23, 2021

Your work as a caregiver can be taxing. Our aides can also help caregivers with chores around the house, giving you a moment of rest. . Home health and personal care aid: Our care aides and volunteers give caregivers a break from the tiring care that hospice patients usually require.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

In particular, a lot of our focus is going to be talking about palliative care and COPD, heart failure and interstitial lung disease, spurred on by a JAMA paper that was just published this week, Nurse and Social Worker Palliative Telecare Team and Quality of Life in Patients With COPD, Heart Failure, or Interstitial Lung Disease.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Early in my research career, I was fascinated by the (then) frontier area of palliative care in the emergency department. I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? They got feedback.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In many instances, hospices will not be able to provide care if patients lack the support of a family caregiver. Louis, is currently researching behavioral interventions to enhance the lives of caregivers for family members with advanced illnesses. You’ve personally been a caregiver yourself.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 15, 2022

This can add to the strain of their work as they care for very different populations with different needs, according to Joan Harold, director of home care clinical services at Michigan-based Angela Hospice. “[It] can be stressful when nurses are torn between the needs of pediatric and adult patients,” Harold told Hospice News in an email.

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Hospice News

JUNE 26, 2023

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. Researchers in Israel studied 180 hospitalized cancer patients between November 2018 and March 2020.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

I’ll be working on that title. Summary Transcript Summary In our podcast with palliative care pioneer Susan Block , she identified the psychological/psychiatric aspects of palliative care as the biggest are of need for improvement. Des delivered a plenary at this year’s National Palliative Care Research Center’s Foley retreat.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Today we talk with DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace about the notion that we should revolutionize our education programs, training programs, teams, incentive structures, and practice to be intentionally interprofessional in all phases. What will you commit to in order to be more intentionally interprofessional?

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The Medicare Hospice Benefit should allow some concurrent care, and Congress should support greater access to palliative care, among other reforms, according to LeadingAge. The senior care advocacy organization wrote to Congressional leaders today calling on lawmakers to devote attention to improving the 40-year-old benefit.

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Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2025

Administration on Ageing and operates within the Thompson School of Social Work & Public Health. Nearly half (45%) of the decedents experienced a claims-based indicator of potentially aggressive end-of-life treatment, the study found, which was led by the American Cancer Society. Researchers from UH and ALU LIKE Inc.

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Hospice News

APRIL 8, 2024

HopeHealth provides home care, hospice, palliative and dementia care, as well as caregiver and grief support services. I started advocating pretty early on that I thought it would be really beneficial to form a separate, dedicated team of nurses, physicians, social workers and chaplains to take part in this care.

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Hospice News

JULY 16, 2024

Family caregivers are among those with some of the greatest unmet bereavement needs, according to a study published in the Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care. Victimized families are at greater risk of having complicated grief experiences, Kraus stated.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Alex: And a voice that will be very familiar to our listeners, a dynamic and enthusiastic social worker in palliative care at the San Francisco VA, Anne Kelly. Alex: And a voice that will be very familiar to our listeners, a dynamic and enthusiastic social worker in palliative care at the San Francisco VA, Anne Kelly. Lynn: Thank you.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Did nudging work? Summary Transcript Summary One marker of the distance we’ve traveled in palliative care is the blossoming evidence base for the field. And we have Kate Courtright, who’s at University of Pennsylvania, the PAIR Center. They study palliative care. She’s pulmonary critical care and palliative medicine trained.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Last year VNA Health Group enhanced its dementia care training programs for social work and nursing staff, with an emphasis on its home health patients. These conditions also put a burden on family caregivers, just as many medical ailments do. The United States has an estimated 8.4 This is such a big issue.”

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

We additionally have a debate/discussion about which outcomes of ACP matter most, including Terri Fried’s commentary in JAGS that caregiver outcomes matter more than goal concordant care (the “holy grail”), completion of advance directives, or changes in health care services use. Did the caregiver feel heard and understood? Depression?

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

I’m unsure what they do, how often they’re used, and who pays for their work. I have a lot of questions, because I have never worked within end-of-life doula in my 20 years of doing palliative care. Despite this, in my 20-year career as a palliative care physician, I have yet to see a death doula in the wild. Why Beth? John: I do.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

And so that’s why we have a lifetime worth of work ahead of us to figure out what we need to be doing. Or any social determinant of health just means that means the clinician refers to social work. Welcome back to the GeriPal podcast. Carla: Thanks so much. Nice to see you all.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A lot of times we, unfortunately, had to eat a lot of the reimbursement because we had to switch them to a routine level of care, even if they were in our inpatient unit, while our social work team worked on placement issues or they worked on caregiver issues. They worked on things like that.

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High Peaks Hospice

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

We help individuals achieve a peaceful life closure, aligned with their values, wishes, choice and needs, while fully supporting their caregivers and loved ones along the way. The Social Worker provides concrete social work services and actively participates in developing patient/family care plans. Glens Falls, NY 12801.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Give too little – it may not work. Summary Transcript CME Summary If palliative care was a drug, one question we would want to know before prescribing it is what dose we should give. This is Eric Widera. Alex This is Alex Smith Eric A nd Alex, who do we have with us today? Jennifer 00:44 Thanks. Chris, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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Seasons Hospice

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Most hospice care programs provide services such as nursing care, social work services, chaplain services, and bereavement counseling. Hospice care also provides support for the patient’s family and caregivers. Hospice care can also provide respite care, which gives caregivers a break from their caregiving duties.

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Hope Hospice

JULY 12, 2022

Volunteers to provide companionship to the patient and relief to the family caregiver. The Role of Social Work in Hospice. Grief support. 24/7 triage support for after-hours urgent issues. Hospice is a vastly underused Medicare benefit in the United States. Are there things I want to accomplish before I die?

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

We invited her back along with Alaine to talk about their work around negotiation training, including their work on NegotiAge , an online, AI based training intervention designed to teach negotiation skills to caregivers. . Training Hospitalists in Negotiations to Address Conflicts with Older Adults around Their Social Needs.

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