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Rush Medical Center’s Caring for Caregivers Program

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With increasing need for programs that aid caregivers, RUSH University Medical Center’s Caring for Caregivers (C4C) as an example of a hospital service that assists family members and friends who care for adults 60-years and older in their homes. population) who provide care for family members with chronic and serious conditions.

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End-of-Life Doulas’ Growing Value Proposition in Hospice

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“[They] can provide so much support from advance care planning to vigil assistance, and out in the community they can do early grief and bereavement support and can provide household support [and] respite caregiving.” Curd is also a licensed clinical social worker, and serves as a therapist at Red Wheelbarrow Counseling LLC and BetterHelp.

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How Palliative Care Could Address Unmet Needs of Patients With Rare Diseases

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Unfortunately, we also see a lot of caregiver strain and stress taking care of these patients.” The key to effectively addressing these needs is a comprehensive interdisciplinary care approach, which includes disease-specific specialists, in conjunction with palliative care and social work.”

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Senate Again Takes Up Hospice, Palliative Staffing Bill

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If enacted, PCHETA would support hospice and palliative care training programs for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers and chaplains. As a caregiver for parents living with Alzheimer’s disease, I saw firsthand just how valuable these services are. But the need is great.

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St. Croix Hospice Leverages Predictive Analytics to Boost Quality

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Not only have daily clinical visits in the last week of life improved, so too have bedside presence from other interdisciplinary team members such as social workers and chaplains, she stated. Identifying patients a little sooner with technology can allow those patients to have longer and more visits at the end of life,” Arnold said.

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AAHPM Board President-Elect Holly Yang: Hospice Regulators Need to Consider Perspectives of Bedside Staff

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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. ” And that is true.

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Lipson Cancer Institute’s Collaborative Care Program Integrates Palliative Care, Behavioral Health

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Bethany Walton, senior oncology social worker and collaborative care therapist at the Lipson Cancer Institute, said Collaborative Care began in 2021 as an extension of the program already in place serving Rochester Regional Health’s Primary and OBGYN Offices. The patient is always an active part of the decision.