Hospice News

MAY 17, 2023

It requires careful communication designed to identify what is most important to patients. While advance care planning is associated with end-of-life care, the process is also a frequent component of palliative care programs, which are oriented around patients’ own goals and wishes at any stage of their illnesses.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 22, 2024

The nature of social workers’ roles on an interdisciplinary hospice team give them a unique, inside look into how faith, religion and belief systems can impact understanding of end-of-life care, Gaines said.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Alex: And we have returning, Bob Arnold, who is a palliative care doctor at the University of Pittsburgh. Alex: Also returning Rebecca Sudore, who is professor of medicine at the UCSF in the division of geriatrics, and is a geriatric and palliative care doctor. So what we’re talking about here are living wills, right?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Earlier this year palliative care was the correct response to the following clue on the game show Jeopardy: From a Latin word for “to cloak”, it’s the type of care given to seriously ill patients to provide comfort without curing. What’s wrong with the “pictures of hands clasping each other” as our palliative care meme?

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Seasons Hospice

MARCH 26, 2023

Is There A Length Of Time For Palliative Care? Palliative care is a type of medical care that focuses on providing relief from the symptoms, stress, and pain of serious illnesses. It helps individuals live as comfortably as possible during their illness by managing physical, emotional, spiritual, and practical aspects of care.

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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

MARCH 3, 2022

Julien: He basically had an end of life care discussion with this patient. That will be the last one in his life. ” And that has 34,000 likes, which for a palliative care tweet is beyond what other tweets have achieved. Don’t thicken it, make sure he gets what he wants. Don’t ask anybody.

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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. What is a DNR? DNR stands for “do not resuscitate.”

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