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How is Palliative Care Considered Compassionate?

Seasons Hospice

This kind of care can begin at any stage during a person’s illness, even if they are still undergoing treatment. In fact, many people receive this kind of care alongside other forms of medical treatment in order to help manage symptoms. Why Choose Palliative Over Curative? Encourages Emotional Well-Being.

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What Services Does Hospice Provide?

Seasons Hospice

Here is a breakdown of our teams at Seasons Hospice: Medical directors oversee your loved one’s care at Seasons, ensuring they receive care tailored to their needs. If your loved one decides to receive care at Seasons, they can remain with their current primary care doctor as well. Healthcare services.

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NHPCO Welcomes Congressional Reintroduction of the Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act

NHPCO

“Our bipartisan Palliative Care and Hospice Education and Training Act will make an overdue investment in education and research to ensure doctors, nurses, and health care professionals have the tools they need as they work tirelessly to keep patients with serious or life-threatening illnesses comfortable and safe.

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Preventable and Aggressive Care for Cancer Patients: To the Bitter End

AJN Off the Charts

There have been a couple of recent studies that confirm what I have observed as a palliative care nurse practitioner (NP) in an academic medical center: that there’s still a tendency to pursue very aggressive care with older people with cancer. Palliative care could prevent many ED visits.

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What Are The Goals Of Palliative Care?

Seasons Hospice

One of the pioneers of modern palliative care was Dame Cicely Saunders, a British physician, nurse, and social worker. This became a model for the interdisciplinary approach to end-of-life care. Her work emphasized the importance of comprehensive pain management, emotional support, and spiritual care.