Hospice News

JUNE 21, 2022

It took relatively well people and then took them to very late-stage acute disease with patients that were going to expire of their disease and move them into the home setting very, very quickly. The demand for hospital beds and the lack of availability of nursing home beds for that population put a profound stress on hospice services.

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GeriPal

MARCH 13, 2025

But what I remember from that is at the end of your week long rotation, Michael, everybody gets a chance if they wanted to sit down with Cicely Saunders, social work nurse, doctor extraordinaire, you sit down with her. Brought to mind the neglect and warehouse style nursing home home shabbiness of les hospices.

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Hospice News

JULY 11, 2024

That message is given by the cancer care technicians, the nurses, the multidisciplinary teams. Our social work department is called the Department of Family Care and works closely with families. We have a home hospice. But we really want to bring it more upstream to nursing homes, to patient homes, etc.,

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

But our social work colleagues, our other team members really bring the lens and understanding for how we might be more holistic in thinking about a patient at the end of their life who’s struggling or suffering, who, who may have had cumulative trauma over the lifespan and how we can really be sensitive to and supportive of that.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Last year VNA Health Group enhanced its dementia care training programs for social work and nursing staff, with an emphasis on its home health patients. This included education on how to identify cognitive impairment and, when appropriate, connect patients with community resources or other providers.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

That assumes that you have somebody at home who’s willing and able to take care of you. And if we don’t make that happen, those patients end up in the hospital or they end up in nursing homes. And secondly, nurses are best at doing nursing, and social workers are best at doing social work.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

Alex: So the proven trial was that the video in the nursing homes? Kate: Yeah, the nursing homes. Whether it’s supportive care or a social work led intervention, an ACP led intervention, whatever it may be. So it’s hard to then study what happened with it. If many folks didn’t get it.

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High Peaks Hospice

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The program was unique, providing family oriented comprehensive services which included medical, nursing, social work, spiritual care, volunteer support, bereavement services as well as the availability of specialty care by physical therapists, nutritionists and speech therapists.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

I think we also lean into, I’ve learned so much from my social work colleagues and/or my spiritual care provider colleagues because they do really lean into some of these other aspects of the who, not just the physical. The flip side of this is in those notes so much of that is about how the patient is and not who.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

I think we also lean into, I’ve learned so much from my social work colleagues and/or my spiritual care provider colleagues because they do really lean into some of these other aspects of the who, not just the physical. The flip side of this is in those notes so much of that is about how the patient is and not who.

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Seasons Hospice

JULY 15, 2022

Home health aide services to provide more hands-on assistance with personal care tasks, as well as light housekeeping and errand running. Nursing care to manage pain and other symptoms, monitor medications, and provide emotional support. This type of care can be provided in a hospital, nursing home, or another medical facility.

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Seasons Hospice

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Hospice care can be provided in a variety of settings, including the patient’s home, a hospice center, or a nursing home. Most hospice care programs provide services such as nursing care, social work services, chaplain services, and bereavement counseling. Myth 5: Hospice care means giving up.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

I was alone with her in the end of a long hallway at a nursing home health center. What the social workers are … Eric: Yeah. Beth: From a hospice standpoint, we obviously have the nursing support, social work chaplaincy. We have volunteers, we have CNAs.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 29, 2022

.” What frustrates me is that so much of our education, either in medical school or nursing school or social work, we’re not taught to handle conflict. You can speak a little bit about what you’ve learned in social work school. Autonomy is the number one thing in social work.

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