Hospice News

MARCH 23, 2023

Facing potential out-of-pocket expenses has led to racial divides in advance care planning utilization among lower income and ethnically diverse groups, according to Dr. Deborah Freeland, assistant professor of internal medicine at UT Southwestern Medical School, Division of Geriatric Medicine, in Texas.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

She started her career as a nurse and probably her heightened that worked against her. 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 put her back out.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

We have our social workers and our psychologists and we know how to manage these symptoms. Nurses, they also had specific training requirements, so I just want to make it clear. It wasn’t just any nurse. How often did the palliative care team have to see folks? They’re because of the treatment.

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