Hospice News

JANUARY 29, 2024

Palliative care in general can reduce health care costs by more than $4,000 per patient, according to a July 2017 study in Health Affairs. Countering this however, is the need for greater education for all stakeholders on the nature of these services and how they are distinct from hospice.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. But are we really taking full advantage of ALL social workers have to offer our field? Summary Transcript Summary. by: Anne Kelly, LCSW, APHSW-C. Welcome back, Anne.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

” The 61 million people globally, who are in serious health related suffering as estimated by the Lance commission of 2017, are preferably unheard. So, though the Lands Commission brought up the phrase, serious health related suffering only in 2017, I realized that’s what we were treating. I see them in your hospices, Tom.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

And so the definition of advance care planning really switched in, I think, 2017, 2018, there was kind of a United States definition and then an international consensus definition. And I think social workers, advanced practitioners, nurses, really feel comfortable giving functional prognoses more so than time-based prognoses.

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