Hospice News

APRIL 15, 2024

Rural caregivers are more vulnerable to adverse emotional health impacts than others due to their remote locations, researcher Arienne Patano, PhD student at Michigan State University, said at the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) and the Hospice & Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) Annual Assembly.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 14, 2023

More recently Sharon Kaufman ‘s book And a Time to Die described the ways in which physicians, nurses, hospital systems, and payment mechanisms influenced the hour and manner of patient’s deaths. In his book The Hour of our Death Philip Aries described a long evolution in western civilization of cultural attitudes towards dying.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

In this PONDER-ICU trial, we didn’t rely on palliative care specialists; we engaged bedside clinicians to have ICU communication and adhere to guidelines. Eric: We just did a podcast on creating palliative care consults. Were these two resources already there? It wasn’t just any nurse.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

On one hand, in palliative care, it’s like primary palliative care, people who’ve got a little bit of teaching. You got palliative care psychologists and social workers and pharmacists and MP’s and physicians and nurses, you know, the chaplains. Now we have two nurses for 8.5

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