Seasons Hospice

APRIL 22, 2025

Palliative care is a specialized form of medical care for people living with serious, chronic, or life-threatening illnesses. Importantly, palliative care can be provided alongside curative or aggressive treatments, such as chemotherapy, radiation, or surgery. What Is Palliative Care? What Is Hospice Care?

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Ruth: There were some people who got comfort palliative care in the nursing home at end of life. Ruth: Decision-making processes, we saw the lower nursing homes tended to have a clear process for advanced care planning and for decision making to include families in an informed decision. Rehabbed to Death. Transcript. Joan: Thanks.

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Shining Light Hospice

JUNE 4, 2023

Instead, it’s about shifting the focus from curative treatments to comfort and quality of life. Hospice care can be provided concurrently with curative or life-prolonging treatments in pediatric patients, an approach known as palliative care. Choosing pediatric hospice care is an intensely personal decision.

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Seasons Hospice

MARCH 26, 2023

While it may be used in conjunction with curative treatment plans to help manage symptoms or side effects of treatments, it is not intended to cure an illness. Advanced Directives Advanced directives , sometimes referred to as living wills, are documents that provide direction for end-of-life care decisions.

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Pallimed

JANUARY 30, 2021

Ie, is dying in 2 months from untreated cancer alongside suboptimally treated OUD an acceptable alternative to dying in 1 year from properly treated cancer alongside suboptimally treated OUD (for a patient who wants cancer treatment)? Patients with SUD often require multiple engagements with different treatments before achieving remission.

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Palliverse

APRIL 21, 2022

In the past week she had a major fall, resulting in life-threatening injuries. Printed information was provided which was read and digested, with some difficulty as the pain in her legs and bottom still bothered her despite the pain relief she was given. Photo by Sorin Gheorghita on Unsplash. She wished to be at his side again.

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