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Knowledge Gaps Among Nurses Create Barriers for Patients Across the Globe

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The research spanned 40 studies across 10 databases in 12 countries from 2010 to 2021 that measured the level of understanding using the Palliative Care Quiz for Nursing (PCQN) scale. “It is recommended that relevant departments formulate and promote the implementation of targeted measures to improve the knowledge level of this population.”

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Angels Care Hospice Expands Services to Fill Regional Gaps

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By extending its footprint, the company is helping to fill a gap left when Big Bend Regional Medical Center in Alpine, Texas, shuttered its hospice program in 2010. Mansfield, Texas-based Angels Care Hospice has set the ball rolling on expanding to two additional counties, reaching areas that have lacked a provider for more than a decade.

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Systematic Change Needed to Support Family Caregivers of Hospice Patients

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At the same time, the ratio of potential caregivers to seriously ill seniors is expected to shrink to 4-to-1 by 2023, a “sharp decline” from 7-to-1 in 2010, AARP reported. In 2010, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS). A few other federal programs exist to support caregivers.

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UNC Health Southeastern Sells Home-Based Hospice Program to Lower Cape Fear LifeCare

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Seniors older than 65 are the fastest-growing age group in the county, having seen a 22% increase between 2010 and 2021, according to the U.S. The hospital is located in Robeson County, North Carolina, which as of 2019 had a total population of roughly 116,000 people. Census Bureau. About 585 died while receiving hospice care that year.

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How Medicaid Boosted Palliative Care Utilization

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The study included patients between the ages of 18 to 64 who were newly diagnosed with stage 4 cancers between 2010 and 2019. Source: Kaiser Family Foundation The ACS team applied data from the National Cancer Database, a national hospital-based cancer registry sponsored by ACS in collaboration with the American College of Surgeons.

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‘Elegant, Expert Care’: The Emergence of Neuropalliative Services

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Daly was a part of the second-ever class to sit the palliative care certification exam in 2010. They didn’t know who to connect me to, and they supported me as best they could, but it really felt like I was going off on my own.” Things have changed in the decade following Daly’s certification.

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Study: Asian Americans Most Open to Receive Emotional Support Near End of Life, Less Likely to Have Advance Care Plan

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between 2010 and 2019. Misconceptions about hospice and palliative care may also be fueling utilization disparities among this demographic. The Asian population is the fastest growing racial or ethnic population in the United States relative to other demographics, having risen 29.3% and 20%, respectively.

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