Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Drew University of Medicine and Science (CDU) and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA analyzed data from 147 studies that addressed trends in palliative, hospice and advance care planning utilization among non-Hispanic Black communities nationwide. The study was funded in part by the U.S.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Hospices’ public outreach efforts have evolved in recent years, with providers finding new strategies to dispel myths that have long impeded access to care. Nearly half, or 49.1%, of all Medicare decedents utilized hospice services in 2022, reported the National Alliance for Care at Home.

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1-800-HOSPICE

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Here we explore this choice and how it affects hospice care. This document is usually for people in their last months of life. It’s more helpful in emergency situations than the living will , because it results in a yellow and red piece of paper with standard formatting. As a general Medicare requirement, DNRs are optional.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

Julien: He basically had an end of life care discussion with this patient. So, maybe the person with advanced dementia is coming in from the nursing home and nobody can find the living will from however many years ago.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

You need to show them how palliative care could help them live better. Medicare, on their brochures, frail hands. There was a study done a few years ago that we have in our scoping review where they asked the public, “Do you know what palliative care is?” Most of them thought it was end-of-life care.

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