Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The toll that caregiving has taken on both family members, and their relationship, is a major theme of the film, as is Doris’ desire to find ways to live her own life even as her brother’s ends. The Terry Schaivo story is not ours to tell, but many of those components affect end-of-life care every day.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. They have so many more insights using technology from telehealth and telemedicine that’s feeding into that mobile device, which is so powerful for them.

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Seasons Hospice

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Five wishes are similar to living wills in that they express an individual’s preferences for end-of-life care. In your living will, you should clearly state your preferences for medical treatment, including life-sustaining measures such as artificial ventilation and feeding tubes.

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 6, 2023

Learn More As managers working in hospice, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living, and even senior communities, part of our job is to educate our employees in end of life care. As mentioned above, most of our staff will not know there is a difference in care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 15, 2025

Erin Harris: My journey in this field began with retail pharmacy, but my passion for hospice care led me to Enclara Pharmacia. Witnessing the compassionate, collaborative efforts of hospice teams during my great-grandmothers end-of-life care inspired me to transition into this field.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

For a deeper dive, check out some of these other studies and resources we talked about in the podcast: The Influence of Nursing Home Culture on the Use of Feeding Tubes. The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. Rehabbed to Death. Ruth: Oh, thanks.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

An expansion of “death literacy” is necessary to improve end-of-life care in the United States, according to Michael Connelly, former CEO of Mercy Health. This is the subject of Connelly’s recent book, The Journey’s End: An Investigation of Death & Dying in America. It’s just postponing it.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Daniel eventually passed away about eight years ago, but not before he was placed on that trach and peritoneal dialysis and feeding tube and many other interventions and, all the while, not really focusing on what he wanted as a good quality of life. We aren’t learning their needs.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

She retrained as a social worker, and it was while she was a social worker that she began to formulate her ideas for better kind of end of life care, which was to become hospice care, modern hospice care. She started her career as a nurse and probably her heightened that worked against her. She put her back out.

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High Peaks Hospice

APRIL 16, 2022

A living will is an advance directive that speaks to what care you want or do not want (i.e. no feeding tube, but open to antibiotics) and your Health Care Proxy names the person who will follow those wishes and make decisions. appeared first on High Peaks Hospice and Palliative Care.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

So we took a look at three different domains of quality of life that are relevant to end of life care. And I think there has been a lot of push to incorporate this into the guidelines and our general approach. So we did want to see if this was borne out in the data.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

So, we asked my older son, Kai, who’s 18 years old, he’s an adult, “What is Palliative care?” ” And, he said, “End of life care.” Like us, subscribe to us on your podcast feed. Alex: Welcome to the second half. Alex: And, it means pain management.

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Palliverse

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Staying in hospice for end-of-life care. To be able to wash and feed themselves would be a treat. A cancelled flight was the cause of my homesickness. Patients may be too unwell to go home or anywhere else. A trip outside to the garden can be in the too-hard basket.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. But I think one aspect there was, what’s up with cancer pain, in general? Is cancer pain really different? Should we be excluding it?

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Traditions Health

MAY 6, 2024

Home health care, when a health provider comes to your loved one’s home to provide professional care, can be a great option for patients who are recovering from a stroke. For patients with terminal health problems after a stroke, hospice care may be an alternative to provide palliative, end-of-life care.

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Elizz

MAY 1, 2019

When it comes to providing palliative care for a child, the health care team will need details about your child and your family in order to provide the best possible support for all of you during this difficult time. What the palliative care team needs to know. Family involvement in end-of-life care for a child.

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Elizz

MAY 1, 2019

When it comes to providing palliative care for a child, the health care team will need details about your child and your family in order to provide the best possible support for all of you during this difficult time. What the palliative care team needs to know. Family involvement in end-of-life care for a child.

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Elizz

MAY 1, 2019

When it comes to providing palliative care for a child, the health care team will need details about your child and your family in order to provide the best possible support for all of you during this difficult time. What the palliative care team needs to know. Family involvement in end-of-life care for a child.

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Shining Light Hospice

APRIL 8, 2022

What separates Hospice from Home Health is the type of medical care the patient receives from each service. For instance, Home Health Care may be considered for rehabilitation or to prevent hospitalization. Hospice is indicated for end of life care for patients with a terminal illness. What Is Hospice Care?

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Palliverse

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

This includes medical cultures and different ways of dealing with end-of-life care situations. One registrar talked about how upset he had been when he visited his grandmother who lived in a residential care facility in Asia. Photo by Zheka Boychenko on Unsplash.

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High Peaks Hospice

AUGUST 31, 2023

A living will is an advance directive that speaks to what care you want or do not want (i.e. no feeding tube, but open to antibiotics) and your Health Care Proxy names the person who will follow those wishes and make decisions. Physical copies are available upon request.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

You might be able to extend your life a little bit, but at what cost? So, that was maybe 20 years ago at this point and it really got me down the road thinking about advance care planning, end-of-life care, and similar consequences. You may end up there indefinitely. You’ll have a feeding tube.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

Julien: He basically had an end of life care discussion with this patient. ” And that has 34,000 likes, which for a palliative care tweet is beyond what other tweets have achieved. He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. It won’t take long, go get it by yourself.” Eric: Yeah. Alex: Yeah.

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Seasons Hospice

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This broad scope allows many patients and families to access the compassionate care they need, no matter what condition they are facing. Myth 4: Hospice Care Hastens Death A common misconception is that hospice care hastens death by withholding life-sustaining treatments such as IV fluids, feeding tubes, or resuscitation efforts.

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Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

And that’s what attracts them to, to the, the work, or they have an interest in a particular aspect of care, such as Alzheimer’s disease or end of life care. Maybe they love the therapeutic relationships that they build with their clients. So, like I mentioned, I worked in employee benefits for a while.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 11, 2022

If you are a new nurse or new to end-of-life care, it might be more natural to spend most of your time talking to the family and caregivers. In my experience, I’ve found that even though your patient may not say it, they may experience some degree of loneliness at the end of life. What’s on your mind?”

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

For, like the end of life care, the potentially burdensome end of life care, we definitely looked at patients who had serious illness, which is a designation that we were able to use through different procedure codes and diagnoses that patients had. So intubation, cpr, feeding tubes.

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Living With Hospice

JANUARY 30, 2021

I do have a lot of experience with hospice care, death and dying. For many years, I've seen hospice and end of life care from the patient's perspective, from the caregivers perspective. He goes, "Mitch, we get to feed it crickets and stuff. I'm not a social worker. It's really, it's really neat. How cool was that?

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

And then at one point, probably in the late 90s, I realized that I was interested in not only the HIV medicine, which I continued to be interested in or involved with, but also the palliative and end of life care aspects itself. And I think for ARVs there’s no really good reason to.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

Ought we, in bioethics, create ethical rules for providing care that is illegal? Would such ethical guidelines foster or feed suspicion of the motivations of bioethics? . And as you… Well, the reason we’re connecting all of this today is there are also directives that relate to end of life care.

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