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Hospice News
MAY 9, 2023
Hospice and palliative care providers can benefit from understanding federal and state laws around the use of psychedelics by serious and terminally ill patients. Fratkin, palliative care specialist for Humboldt Center for New Growth, and founding partner and principal palliative care consultant at Fire & Water Consulting.
Hospice News
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
A dearth of coordination or integration between rehab teams and palliative care teams routinely forces some patients into a cycle between the hospital and the nursing home in their last year of life. According to statistics cited in the study, 23% of hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries were discharged to a post-acute care facility in 2013.
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Hospice News
OCTOBER 2, 2023
A growing patient demand is fueling the emergence of integrative palliative care, a blend of traditional biomedical care for serious illness and suite of complementary therapies aimed at improving patient quality of life. The organizations are now looking at bringing on integrative therapies,” he said.
Hospice News
JUNE 29, 2024
Two ketamine-assisted therapy projects are examining ways to develop training and collaboration models for utilization among palliative care patient populations. A growing body of research is uncovering the potential benefits of ketamine therapies to help with symptom management.
Hospice News
AUGUST 23, 2024
In many cases, the sources said, these operators offer patients free access to board-and-care facilities and a daily supply of morphine. One executive described the practice as being carried out by someone who owns several hospices and board-and-care homes. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration. million U.S.
Hospice News
MAY 21, 2024
There’s been tremendous progress in a relatively short amount of time that has yielded improvements in end-of-life care,” Tucker told Hospice News. Congress passed the Breakthrough Therapies Act in 2022, which widened opportunities to utilize certain controlled substances. Sunil Kumar Aggarwal, AIMS co-founder.
Hospice News
JANUARY 20, 2023
More providers are investing in virtual reality (VR) programs as a growing body of research shows that it can ease pain symptoms and improve outcomes for palliative care patients. These findings suggest that there could be therapeutic benefits to expanding virtual reality programming in palliative care delivery, researchers indicated.
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