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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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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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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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

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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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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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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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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Changing Lives Podcast

MARCH 21, 2022

Human nature compels us to nurture our loved ones in many ways, feeding being one method - however it is important to recognize that nutrition at the end-of-life is much different than how people eat prior to illness. Find out more in this week's Changing Lives podcast.

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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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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

-@AlexSmithMD Additional Links: – Fingerstick monitoring in VA nursing homes (too common!) – Improving diabetes management in hospice – Continuous Glucose Monitoring complicating end of life care Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera. Alex Smith: This is Alex Smith. This is great.

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Seasons Hospice

MARCH 23, 2023

Structure and Purpose Having a pet can give seniors structure and purpose in their lives by providing them with daily routines such as feeding or walking the animal. They are relatively low-maintenance pets, needing only daily feedings and occasional cleanings of the cage. The post Are Pets Helpful for Senior Citizens?

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Seasons Hospice

MARCH 2, 2021

Other parts of AAT can include feeding, grooming and speaking to the animal. . Contact us at Seasons Hospice of Tulsa or Muskogee to see how our top-rated staff can give your loved one the excellent hospice care they deserve. appeared first on Seasons Hospice OK | End of Life Care | Tulsa, OK.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)

AUGUST 11, 2023

Many have persistent unmet care needs leading to high costs with questionable quality outcomes (Salzberg, et al. Collaborative efforts between clinicians and payers can continue to advance the quality of palliative care and enhance the well-being of patients and their families. The Myth Regarding the High Cost of End-of-Life Care.

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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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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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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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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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