Hospice News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Given the critical role of family caregivers in home-based care, hospices have a vested interest in expanding their access to support. And while hospices offer social workers and spiritual care, many families continue to have unmet needs that could impede some patients’ access to hospice.

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Hospice News

JULY 2, 2024

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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Hospice News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Huse and Saint Martin cite interest in a multidisciplinary approach, including physicians, nurses, community health workers, chaplains, and social workers, as well as family caregivers.

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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 29, 2024

recently unveiled a new caregiving program aimed at improving support for patients with dementia-related conditions. Patients with these conditions often face more complicated end-of-life trajectories that require caregivers to have a deeper well of supportive resources and knowledge compared to others, The Connecticut Hospice indicated.

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Hospice News

MAY 8, 2024

Given the crucial role that caregivers play in families, their well-being is central to palliative care, and providers need to assist these caregivers by developing sustainable models of support for them. In 2021, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared caregiving to be an incipient public health issue.

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Traditions Health

JANUARY 12, 2025

The hospice team will meet with your family to create a personalized plan of care that considers the patients symptoms and wishes, as well as the preferences of the family and caregivers. One of the first steps is deciding where to place the bed, considering patient comfort and accessibility for caregivers.

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Hospice News

MAY 14, 2024

“[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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High Peaks Hospice

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

High Peaks Hospice has an immediate opening for a Hospice Social Worker in our northern catchment area. 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. Become a member of our growing Hospice Team!

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Hospice News

MARCH 12, 2025

This involves more goals-of-care discussions that place patients in decision-making roles as they reach adulthood while also balancing the integration of support from their parents, guardians or caregivers, he stated. We can be that bridge that provides continuity transitioning between the pediatric and adult patients, Karlin said.

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Hospice News

APRIL 2, 2024

. “The Neuro-Inclusive Oncology Care and Empowerment Program will bring us one step closer to equitable care by supporting people who are neurodivergent as they navigate their cancer diagnosis and treatment,” said Melissa Levin, senior clinical social worker at Dana-Farber. ” More than 1.3

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The house is designed for terminally ill patients whose residences are not suitable for routine or continuous home care, or those whose care needs are too complex for family caregivers to manage. Nurses, volunteers, social workers, chaplains and aides affiliated with Mitchell House will provide additional support.

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Hospice News

JUNE 13, 2022

Strategies revealed in the study include increasing the amount of social workers and re-allocating non-clinical responsibilities, such as scheduling, to other areas of the organization.”. Hospice worker wage and salary increases ranged from 3% to 6% during the last two years.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary The proportion of people living with dementia who identify as Black/African Americans is on the rise , and so too are the proportion of caregivers who identify as Black/African American. Why a focus on Black/African American caregivers and people with dementia? We talk in particular about: Terminology.

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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.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 13, 2024

Services include personal care, assistance with daily activities of life, nonmedical and caregiving support, and pain, symptom and medication management. Homeless seniors are more likely to have multiple comorbidities, higher acuity needs and lack caregiving support compared to others, she stated. It’s not going to happen overnight.

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Hospice News

JULY 10, 2024

Unfortunately, we also see a lot of caregiver strain and stress taking care of these patients.” Other often unaddressed aspects include a lack of financial resources, education about their disease progression, advance care planning and goals of care discussions, as well as lagging care coordination and caregiver support, according to Selke.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Goals-of-care conversations, referrals to hospice, supporting a patient and a caregiver, symptom management,” Chiang said. “We The program is in the process of hiring its first social worker as a part-time employee. There is an intersection between what we do, We do a lot of the similar things. We do a lot of the same thing.

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Hospice News

JUNE 30, 2022

The EdenHospice team includes a hospice physician, director of nursing, chaplain, social worker, aides and volunteers. EdenHill Communities, established in 1906, offers a continuum of care that includes independent and assisted living, memory care, skilled nursing, rehabilitation, caregiving and now hospice services.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2024

.” For the study, researchers conducted interviews and focus groups with Black Americans 18 and older who suffer from a serious illness and their caregivers, producing a number of key findings: Knowledge of palliative and hospice care varied among participants. Access to hospice and palliative care is perceived as lacking.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

It’s really having the team approach with our nurses, social workers, providers and counselors so that people don’t feel like they’re alone. This means patients and families are often unaware that end-of-life care can be delivered in the home by their family members or other caregivers, Lin explained.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Nearly 80% of more than 1,700 caregivers in two California counties indicated that their caregiving responsibilities affected their ability to afford household and living expenses, according to a survey from Legacy. Caregivers of the terminally ill are often left with heavy financial and logistical burdens.

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Traditions Health

JANUARY 5, 2025

They will consider a patients condition and wishes, along with the preferences of the family and caregivers, to recommend the best one. This can include the doctor, nurse, medical social worker, home health aide, spiritual professional, and volunteers. The hospice team will complete a comprehensive assessment of the patient.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Medical social workers saw an average 4.07% hourly increase, but in terms of productivity tended to have larger caseloads, with a national average of 29.15 We need to make sure that we continue to press [reimbursement] rates in order to pass those wages down to caregivers to entice them back into the home care space.”.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The tool factors in clinical concerns as well as the home environment, caregiver resources and social determinants of health. Patients enrolled in the program also receive services from nurses, case managers and social workers. Clinicians are reachable 24/7, including through telehealth support.

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Hospice News

MAY 7, 2024

Palliative professionals are among the health care providers with room for improvement in their gender affirming practices, according to Zachary Fried, licensed clinical social worker and training supervisor of Optum at Home, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH).

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The Caregiving Years Training Academy

JANUARY 11, 2025

We’d love for you to join one of our programs that empowers you to lead meaningful conversations with family caregivers and former family caregivers. You’ll become a Caregiving or Grief Facilitator. Course includes Grieving After Caregiving and The Art of Listening archived classes.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2023

If enacted, PCHETA would support hospice and palliative care training programs for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers and chaplains. “As a caregiver for parents that suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, I saw firsthand just how valuable these services can be.

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Hospice News

JUNE 27, 2022

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. Social and economic factors like these drive 40% of health outcomes, according to the Better Medicare Alliance.

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Hospice News

JULY 26, 2024

So if they see a social worker coming in, they may not be receptive. In addition to staff training, this includes having ways to honor veterans for their service, assess the social determinant of health resources they may need and identify gaps of caregiver support, he added.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Through the arrangement, Goodwin Hospice staff, primarily social workers, refer families to Present for You’s death doula services, particularly when caregivers may need more respite or families are in need of greater touch points and communication, Eulers stated.

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The Caregiving Years Training Academy

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Enroll in the Certified Caregiving Consultant training program on or before February 24 to receive additional weekly support from me to discuss each of the 9 modules and to stay on track to complete your certification requirements. I also share these learnings with participants in my Certified Caregiving Consultant program.

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Traditions Health

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

If youre a caregiver for someone whos disabled, seriously ill, or in hospice care, you know all too well the conflicting emotions that go along with that role, from fulfillment and joy to exhaustion and, oftentimes, guilt. But you arent alone: The 2020 Caregiving in the U.S. But you arent alone: The 2020 Caregiving in the U.S.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 28, 2025

Established in 1988, AAHPM is a professional organization for hospice and palliative care clinicians, social workers and other health and spiritual care providers in the space. She most recently served as vice president of operations at Caregiver Inc., He also served as an advisor at Acclivity Health Solutions Inc.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 9, 2022

Even the phrase “cultural competence” itself may be an oversimplification, according to Joseph Bleiberg, lead licensed social worker with the hospice care team at VNS Health. Hospice organizations often find themselves “playing catch up” in offering this kind of training, he stated.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

David Bekelman conducted a RCT of a nurse and social worker telephone intervention (ADAPT intervention) for people with heart failure and lung disease (COPD or ILD). And then, you chose for the intervention to include a nurse and a social worker. Were these palliative care trained nurses and social workers?

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Hospice Promise

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Caregiving is undeniably challenging, but you don’t have to do it alone. Hospice Promise’s Social Worker, Nick Farinella, LMSW, shared a few resources and organizations that offer caregiver support. The post Caregiver Resources from Nick Farinella, Hospice Promise Social Worker appeared first on Hospice Promise.

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