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10 Hospice News ‘Hidden Gem’ Stories from 2022

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Different health systems often fail to serve these families because they don’t have the right resources or because it’s very difficult to manage care.”. How the United States Will Revamp Family Caregiver Support. What’s Fueling the Hospice JV Furnace. Conversations about death and dying can be difficult,” the commission wrote.

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Palliative Care News’ Top 5 Stories of 2023

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State laws to promote palliative care have proliferated during the last decade. Nearly 80% of states nationwide have passed at least one or more types of palliative care legislation since 2014, according to Yale University’s Palliative Care Law and Policy GPS data tracker.

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Why Patients with Lymphoma Are Less Likely to Receive Hospice

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Hospice Improves Quality of Life Hospice has been associated with improved quality of life at the end of life and reductions in the risk of psychiatric illness among bereaved caregivers. Place of death: correlations with quality of life of patients with cancer and predictors of bereaved caregivers’ mental health.

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Why Do Most People Receive Less Time in Hospice than Recommended?

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Hospice sends nurses, aides, and other caregivers to the homes of patients with advanced, terminal illnesses. 1-3 This three-month minimum promotes hospice’s ability to provide the physical and emotional support that helps patients and their family caregivers. Support Care Cancer. 2014; doi 10.1007/s00520-014-2397-7.

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Two Hospices Halt Services Amid Staffing Shortages

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HHCJ’s additional services included bereavement care, as well as free medical equipment loans for wheelchairs, walkers, crutches, bath benches, bedside commodes or canes. A second factor in the closing is that hospice and home health reimbursement is lagging in covering the rising costs of delivering care. Census Bureau. Census Bureau.

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