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Researchers Uncover Widespread Disparities Affecting Rural Hospice Caregivers

Hospice News

Researchers from Michigan State University’s School of Nursing recently dug into the geographic and psychosocial challenges that rural family caregivers experience when providing community-based palliative and hospice care. The researchers’ analysis spanned the experiences of 1,470 caregivers across 18 studies from 2010 to 2023.

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

GeriPal

And it’s why until Areej was a pioneer in this area, people really weren’t figuring out how to integrate palliative and supportive care services for patients with heme malignancies. Jennifer: It was 2010. Eric: 2010. Eric: I’m going to go back in time a little bit.