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Palliative Care’s Most Disruptive Forces in 2025

Hospice News

Palliative care providers are taking varied routes to address the most disruptive forces they are encountering this year, rising to challenges that have been persistent across the sector. Martha Twaddle, The Waud Family Medical Directorships palliative medicine and supportive care clinical professor of medicine at Northwestern Medicine.

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HAP Foundation Launches to Research and Advance Hospice, Palliative Care

Hospice News

“Navigating grief and finding support can be complicated and isolating. “Navigating grief and finding support can be complicated and isolating. We are planning to expand Missing Pieces to address broader grief needs for more families.”

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Mahogany CEO: Hospice on Cusp of ‘Tremendous Revolution’

Hospice News

They can use that energy trying to figure it all out to focus on being present. Our services will include the standard hospice functions such as individual bereavement care and volunteer-based therapy, but we also have grief support groups. We cannot change their health outcome, but maybe we can impact their journey.

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‘Upgrading’ the Medicare Hospice Benefit

Hospice News

When these services cannot be replicated, patients and caregivers are left to deal with the loss of these services, citing experiences of grief and abandonment.” In Fiscal Year 2022, 7.5% of the nation’s 1.7 million hospice recipients were diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, 6.8% with senile degeneration of the brain and 3.5%

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Understanding the 7 C’s of Palliative Care

Caregiver Support Services

Patients value stability; caregivers can foster this by maintaining regular routines and being present for important milestones. Caregivers can present options about treatments, daily routines, or activities, keeping the loved ones preferences front and center. It addresses physical, emotional, psychological, and social well-being.

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Hospice Programs Slated for Closure Remain Open

Hospice News

At present, Hospice of Central New York & the Finger Lakes is providing hospice care to patients in Oswego County. FOCH funding provides resources, assistance and supplies to patients with terminal illness in the area, along with maintaining hospice volunteer programs such as its children’s grief support program, Camp Rainbow of Hope. “We

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New CMOs for Hospice of the Chesapeake, Care Synergy; HopeWest Taps New VP

Hospice News

She has also presented and published literature on the different types of supportive services, including palliative, hospice, acute and post-acute care. “We In addition to hospice, HopeWest also provides palliative care and grief support services across an 8,000 square-mile region of western Colorado.

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