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Places of Farewell – bereaved parents’ decision making about their child’s place of death

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

This blog provides a summary of preliminary findings regarding bereaved parents’ decision making about their child’s place of death. 12389 Johnston E et al (2020) Hospital or home? 12389 Johnston E et al (2020) Hospital or home? Where should children die and how do we make that a reality?

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Stoneridge Hospice Owner Rollie Seebert: Hospices Help Address the ‘Demographic Tsunami’

Hospice News

Arizona-based Stoneridge Hospice launched services in 2020 with an aim to address a swelling aging population’s growing need for end-of-life care. The hospice provider also offers palliative care, veteran and bereavement services, and durable medical equipment (DME) and supplies. Stoneridge Hospice launched in 2020.

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Hospices Stepping Up Performance on Visits-in-Last-Days-of-Life Measure

Hospice News

Social worker visits in the last days of life also rose to 9% in 2021, up from 7% in 2020. The greatest barrier to further improvement is the ever-present workforce shortage affecting the health care industry at large and hospices in particular. In 2019, for example, the percentage was 66%.

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How Hospice, Behavioral Health May Cross Paths

Hospice News

In some respects, the two sectors are already inextricably linked, given the holistic nature of hospice care, including attention to patients’ psychosocial and spiritual needs as well as bereavement support for families. Basically, there are gaps in need, and that both presents an opportunity for entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship.

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St. Croix’s Strategic Executive Moves; NHPCO’s Ben Marcantonio Named Goodwin Living’s Board VP

Hospice News

Clark, our new board chair, and the other board trustees to carry out the mission of Goodwin Living by planning for the future and meeting the needs of the present through the Goodwin Living retirement communities, programs and services.” Under Cottrell’s leadership, the hospice in 2020 expanded its service lines to include palliative care.

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The Final Chapter

Red M.D.

(published in General Surgery News September 2020). While completing a death certificate presents an intellectual challenge and demands a short, but not insignificant, time commitment, I have recently come to view the process as something more profound than another item on my to-do list. For me, it works. Provided more comfort?

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Black/African American Caregivers of Older Adults Living with Dementia: Fayron Epps and Karen Moss

GeriPal

I think that’s something we’ve seen even with the most recent issues that came out, not new issues, but came to the surface with the racial reckoning that we saw in 2020 related to murders and deaths and killings and that sort of stuff that helps to reshape how we refer to different groups of individuals in our community.

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