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Palliative-Primary Care Integration Crucial for MCC Patients

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The paper stresses that evidence is growing that one chronic condition puts people at risk for developing others. If someone has heart failure for example, you’re going to be working with a cardiologist. If somebody has COPD, you’re going to be working with a pulmonologist and possibly pulmonary rehab or cardiac rehab.

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The Most Disruptive Forces Shaping Palliative Care in 2024

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“When I think about the staffing issues and just some of the career burnout, and how to really attract and grow our specialty area of palliative medicine, we have a lot of forces working against us,” Campbell told Palliative Care News at the conference. There’s a lot of stress in a position [of] providing palliative care.

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Hospices Leverage Community Resources to Serve Vulnerable Homeless Populations

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Recent significant factors include economic hardships, pandemic-related impacts and rising housing costs, the research found. It has also taken “getting creative” in how they work together to form an “arsenal of resources,” such as inpatient hospice care and residential support, she added.

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Hospice Worker, Patient Safety Concerns Impact Access in Underserved Communities

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What we often fail to acknowledge is that crime can happen anywhere and isn’t solely based on the race, ethnicity, or socio-economic status of a community.” Sometimes it’s two of us, a nurse and a social worker, or maybe an aide, that go together if that works best for both their comfort level and the patient’s.

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How Does the Workforce Shortage Affect Hospice M&A?

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In this current economic or employee crisis is more critical than ever,” Freeman Smith, president of the Northern Region at Traditions Health, told Hospice News at the conference. So now I’m seeing workers come back to work,” Smith said. “I’ve Culture is very important. I just want to come back into a normal existence.”.

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How Hospices Can Improve Health Equity for Rural-Based LGBTQ+ Seniors

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These issues can be even more challenging for LGBTQ+ seniors than other social determinants of health such as socio-economic status, she said. That’s where a lot of this work gets done where there’s evidence that organizations are committed to and carrying out those should be noted.

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Researchers Link Social Determinants to Pain Management in End-of-Life Care

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People who live in socially vulnerable areas that are more economically depressed may find it harder to access medication in ‘pharmacy desserts’ than people in more affluent areas who perhaps have the means and more transportation at their disposal.” The disparities can also be impacted by a lack of access,” Pawlik said.