CareAcademy Blog

APRIL 30, 2025

To operate as a hospice agency, you must provide four levels of care: Routine home care This type of care is similar to standard home health services, with caregivers visiting patients regularly to monitor health and nutrition, offer physical therapy, manage medications, and document a patients well-being and quality of life.

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Caregiver Support Services

JANUARY 31, 2025

Regular follow-ups with medical professionals and documenting changes in the patients condition ensure youre meeting their evolving needs effectively. Patients value stability; caregivers can foster this by maintaining regular routines and being present for important milestones.

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Caregiver Support Services

JULY 27, 2024

Receiving an inheritance can be both a blessing and a burden, especially during a time of grief. Review any wills or estate documents carefully. Knowing the first steps to take after receiving an inheritance can help you responsibly and respectfully manage this windfall. It may include cash, property, stocks, or other investments.

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AJN Off the Charts

OCTOBER 21, 2022

This article explores key nursing liability issues associated with the pandemic, including immunity, documentation, crisis standards of care, delegation and assignment, scope of practice, floating, travel nursing, telehealth, and misinformation and social media. CE: What COVID-19 Can Teach Nurses About Liability Risks. A note on the cover.

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1-800-HOSPICE

JUNE 20, 2023

Social workers provide emotional support, helping individuals cope with grief , anxiety, and other complex emotions. Social workers may also help patients complete advance directives, such as living wills and durable power of attorney documents.

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Seasons Hospice

JUNE 27, 2023

Answer: Advance directives are legal documents that allow individuals to express their treatment preferences and end-of-life wishes in advance. By documenting their preferences, individuals can ensure that their wishes are respected, even when they can no longer communicate or make decisions.

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2025

End-of-life decision-making processes can be complicated by several factors such as rapid changes in a patients medical condition alongside complex feelings of anxiety, concern, grief and sadness, Wood Mintz stated. The platform partners with insurance providers, funeral homes, estate law, senior living providers and other related sectors.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Added friction to their daily workloads can come in the form of time-intense documentation practices that at times add operational burdens for clinical staff, he said. While technology can be leveraged to help reduce documentation strains, hospices need more layers of support to help staff thrive in their roles.

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Hospice News

MAY 9, 2022

“Moreover, access to the support needed to respond to this crisis is in short supply, highlighting the opportunity for our member organizations to share their expertise in dealing with grief and loss.”. Providers often extend grief care available throughout their entire communities, regardless of whether the deceased was a patient.

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Hospice News

MAY 23, 2024

That is the thing that gives them the most anxiety and grief.” They lean on HCHB’s Person-Centered Care Plans, (PCCP) to document their age-friendly care in hospice. “In one patient’s case, her greatest concern was making sure that her dog was cared for after she died,” Hale says.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The film provides a window into what hospices actually do, as well as the experience of families whose loved ones are nearing end of life, the challenges of caregiving and grief that often begins long before the patient dies, according to Jonathan Fleece, CEO of Empath Health. “I

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Hospice News

MARCH 12, 2024

The Empathy app is designed to help families navigate the logistical aspects of bereavement, including documentation, funeral or memorial arrangements, validating a will and other essentials. Empathy continues to set new standards for supporting families through grief and loss,” said Ron Gura, Co-Founder and CEO of Empathy, in a statement. “We

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

I think there was an increase in advanced care planning documentation, but the group that got the intervention had higher rates of potentially burdensome care. And I was wondering whether the communication can impact their grief, even though that’s maybe a long period between grief and communication during treatment.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2024

If we have a document that can tell us what someone would want, it’s crucially important for the patient and the family.” Earlier hospice access through advance care planning can help improve grief care outcomes as well, according to Kwan. These families can often have complicated grief experiences, Chiaramonte agreed.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

When their last documented goals of care were evaluated, 69% of these patients chose care that focused on palliation, the study found. Researchers reviewed electronic medical record data for nearly 2,000 adolescents and young adults who died between 2003 and 2019.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2023

The Empathy app is designed to help families navigate the logistical aspects of bereavement, including documentation, funeral or memorial arrangements, validating a will and other essentials. Grief coupled with complicated logistics can be overwhelming and takes a major toll on our employees’ wellbeing.”

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

And it’s supposedly also about his grief with the loss of his father after a long illness. But you know, we’re told if, if we say we’re increasing it for pain and we document that and then send it back to the methadone clinic, the methadone clinic won’t be able to increase, continue with that increased dose.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

Complicated grief? Hillary: And then I also see us measuring advance care planning documents on file in the health system so that that’s not where I want us to be. Did the caregiver feel heard and understood? Did they have PTSD? Depression? That’s what we call it here in Colorado. Eric: Where do you want us to be?

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

We also run a caregiver institute and a Full Circle grief and loss center. I lead a hospice with about 260 ADC patients, including an inpatient unit with 16 beds, and 1,700 patients in palliative care ranging from clinic, inpatient units, and in the home. We know that technology is certainly a double-edged sword.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 17, 2024

businesses lose over $100 billion a year to grief-related absenteeism, reduced productivity and turnover.” The Empathy app is designed to help families navigate the logistical aspects of bereavement, including documentation, funeral or memorial arrangements, validating a will and other essentials. Estimates suggest that U.S.

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Solace

DECEMBER 21, 2022

But she also understood the weight of grief, losing her husband before her death. Grief is the price we pay for love.” — Queen Elizabeth II. Her documented battles in the kitchen – and in life – were a gift to her fans who could relate to her Generation X struggles. Thich Nhat Hanh, 95.

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Shining Light Hospice

MARCH 20, 2023

Counseling Can Be Beneficial In addition to grief counseling for survivors, counseling can help a terminally ill patient as well. This can be anything from preparing legal documents like wills, living wills, or trusts to ensuring that their loved ones have access to important files – and even to their social media profiles.

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High Peaks Hospice

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Maintains documentation of social work services in patient’s medical records according to agency policy. ? Knowledge of family and group treatment, community resources and the dynamics of terminal illness, grief, and bereavement. Participates in IDT meetings. ? Hospice experience and/or equivalent education is preferred.

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SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

JUNE 11, 2021

Online UK newspapers focused on how COVID-19 disrupted ‘saying goodbye’ (prior to death, at the moment of death and after death) and conflicted with cultural understandings of a ‘good death’ and ‘good grief’, despite efforts undertaken to mitigate the effects of restrictions.

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Seasons Hospice

MARCH 26, 2023

Advanced Directives Advanced directives , sometimes referred to as living wills, are documents that provide direction for end-of-life care decisions. These documents allow individuals to plan ahead and specify their wishes in case of medical emergencies or chronic medical conditions.

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The Nurse Break

MAY 1, 2022

I will complete all necessary clinical interventions/care and then document any treatment. When we return to base, as a team we clean and restock the aircraft and complete documentation and data entry. How do you manage grief, trauma and death? What are some unique clinical considerations that Flight Nurses need to address?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

Why don’t people want to document serious illness conversations? ” So we did these focus groups. I was like, “I guess it’s time to get curious.” ” We get everyone together and we asked why? Why don’t people feel like this resonates with them? It is very active here. I don’t know.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

We have to do our assessment, our documentation, all of the things that we need to do from providing good care and then also from a regulatory and to be filling the roles that we’re there providing, and, frankly, what we’re being reimbursed for.

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High Peaks Hospice

JUNE 27, 2023

Maintains documentation of social work services in patients’ medical records according to agency policy. Knowledge of family and group treatment, community resources, and the dynamics of terminal illness, grief, and bereavement. Participates in IDT meetings. Hospice experience and/or equivalent education is preferred.

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Hospice of the North Coast

AUGUST 25, 2023

Bereavement specialists offer counseling, support groups, and resources to help loved ones navigate their grief. Advance Care Planning : Hospice professionals help patients and families discuss and document their wishes for end-of-life care through advance care planning. These therapies can provide emotional comfort and relaxation.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

On the one hand people have said research is the meticulous documentation of the blatantly obvious, which is kind of LaVera’s point here. And it might include spiritual needs such as grief, despair, anger, et cetera, as well as resources that they have to bring to bear. Alex: Can you stick on this for a second.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

As a hospice agency, you are required to track your hospice volunteer hours along with all of the other items you are required to document for your paid employees. The hospice philosophy, goals of care, and services provided The specific volunteer job responsibilities Documentation of care provided How to get the help they need.

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Living With Hospice

MARCH 5, 2022

But I just soon do this now and get it over with make sure we're all squared away, ready to go so that when the time comes, we don't have to deal with making all these tough decisions in the middle of our grief. You know, you can overcome this fear, we all can overcome this fear, by talking about it. Talk to friends. They'll come to you.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Potential that documenting advance directives without a robust conversation about prognosis might have led to these findings. Jennifer 17:26 Documentation of end of life preferences. And we looked at newly documented end of life preferences. Did it increase documentation? Eric 21:55 And that’s new documentation.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 29, 2022

People’s experience of loss and grief in the last couple of years with the pandemic has been intensified and amplified in ways that no one‘s really experienced before. If passed, it provides funding for bereavement programs to expand their services and reach people who might not otherwise have access to grief and support services.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Based in Providence, Rhode Island, the nonprofit provides hospice, palliative care, grief support and dementia services in Massachusetts and in its home state. Staff need to be well-versed in the common GIP clinical and technical documentation errors is a crucial part of ensuring compliance, she stated.

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