Hospice News

JUNE 3, 2024

Researchers included those from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, the University of Virginia’s School of Medicine, the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Public Health, among others. Despite considerable growth in early PC receipt, utilization remained low in 2019,” the researchers wrote in the study.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Overland Park, Kansas — Rapamycin, a drug traditionally used to prevent organ rejection after transplants, is increasingly drawing attention in the realm of anti-aging research. As researchers continue to study rapamycin, one area of focus is its safety and long-term effects.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Research around hospice care has come a long way. A range of researchers has amassed a growing base of data on hospice, with some common themes tied to quality outcomes, costs, length of stay and general inpatient care. Some of the blindspots in the current sphere of hospice research hover around staffing trends and patient needs.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2024

Many elderly Americans follow one of three place of care trajectories during the last three years of life, researchers from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, found in a study recently published in BMC Geriatrics. These include the home, skilled home care and institutional care.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Wider utilization of telepalliative services could help ease family caregiver burdens and improve quality among seriously ill patient populations, research has found. Researchers have increasingly dug into the quality impacts of virtual palliative care delivery and how telehealth outcomes compare to in-person care.

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Hospice News

JULY 5, 2024

The post AHA Research: Heart Disease Patients Need More Palliative Care appeared first on Hospice News. “Compared with other serious illnesses, medication management that incorporates a palliative approach is underused among individuals with cardiovascular disease.”

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

of Medicare hospice decedents terminal conditions in 2023, according to a recent joint report by the Alliance and the Research Institute for Home Care. Alzheimers and dementia conditions, as well as lung illnesses such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) made up 7.7% according to the findings.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Low palliative care utilization is associated with higher risk of mental health challenges among patients with pancreatic cancer, recent research found. Researchers dug into patients’ data to examine palliative care utilization and delivery of mental health services and pharmacotherapies between January 1, 2010, and December 31, 2018.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

A recent research project that combined palliative care with dementia care management reduced emergency department visits and hospitalizations by half among its patient population. The IN-PEACE project began before the GUIDE model was announced, but both models contain similar elements.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Nearly one-third of the nation’s prison population will be 55 and older by 2030, according to research from the Prison Fellowship. Researchers have uncovered common threads fueling these disparities including economic pressures, workforce shortages and a lack of hospice awareness.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2024

Already, 2024 has brought a growing body of research in palliative care covering more ground on challenges linked to utilization and access, health disparities, lagging clinical awareness, and other aspects impacting quality and care delivery. This year has kicked off with a host of palliative care studies at global and national levels.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Public and Patient Involvement and Engagement Patient and public involvement and engagement, PPIE, is a no longer a new concept in research, but how we meaningfully involve and ensure fair public contribution requires consideration to ensure it is embedded throughout our research practice. The group met, informally over lunch.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

This is according to recent research findings, which could help inform approaches to care under the new Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) payment model. Jennings, researcher at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. Fueled by a $2.3

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

million women in the United States had some type of breast cancer in 2021, according to research from the National Cancer Institute. per 100,000 females between 2018 and 2022, the research found. Palliative care’s major referral hurdles, key selling points More than 3.97 Annual breast cancer-related death rates reached 19.3

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

And then the other area is research, and in really convening the folks that need to be brought together to look at all of the things that have to happen to advance these areas. The institute seeks to be a resource for providers, caregivers and patients for research material, education, grant opportunities and case studies.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Having a community-based participatory research (CBPR) methodology in place could aid hospices data equity efforts, according to Dr. Elizabeth (Liz) Chuang, director of Montefiore Health Systems Einstein Center for Bioethics. Chuang is also a researcher who focuses on community-based end-of-life care and equity topics.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Palliative care clinicians in health systems can apply research to lobby administrators for additional resources. During the course of their research the study authors identified several barriers to expanding palliative care. In doing so, they may get a profile boost due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Adults 50 and older represent nearly half (48%) of homeless populations statewide, a number projected to triple by 2030, according to recent research from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF).

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Virtual palliative services can be as effective as in-person care in helping to improve quality of life among patients with lung cancer, recent research has found. Increasing pathways to telepalliative services could help bridge these gaps without impacting quality, researchers believe.

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HopeHealth

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

A Brown University medical student is working with HopeHealth to research how music can help us cope with grief. This researcher aims to find out appeared first on HopeHealth. The response has been powerful. The post Can music help you cope with grief?

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The association is also in the process of studying racial and ethnic gaps in advance care planning, among other projects funded by its research arm, the ACCC Community Oncology Research Institute. The organization has been holding a series of webinars designed to better educate the oncology community about palliative care.

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Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

JANUARY 26, 2025

This weeks blog has been written by Lorenza Nwafor, Research Sister at the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Art-Based Research (ABR) is an alternative to conventional methods of data collection and analysis. This fellowship fuelled my desire to pursue more clinical academic research in the future.

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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2025

A mounting volume of research backs this theory. from 2000 to 2010, a research analysis found. The need for trauma-informed grief approaches will not abate anytime soon, she indicated. I think were going to continue to see the trends that weve been seeing with the traumatic losses, Bishop said.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

However, the momentum toward greater access is slow, even though researchers, payers, providers and regulators increasingly recognized the value of palliative when it comes to improved quality and health care expenditures. More research has also tied these services to improved outcomes among patients and families and better care coordination.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 3, 2025

Research has increasingly found palliative disparities among blood and breast cancer patients, particularly proliferating among American Indian and Alaska Native populations, as well as Black , Hispanic and Asian American , Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities.

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Hospice News

MARCH 11, 2025

One of the outcomes of the research done by Collins and Kozak is a nine-course, online program targeting care providers. I see a lot of patients who have already done a lot of their own research or family, friends or radios or TVs and heard about things that they think may be helpful. Kozak said the program has been a success.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Researchers examined the results of the PRIM-ER trial, a cluster randomized clinical trial that took place in close to 30 hospitals nationwide. Researchers evaluated the initial emergency department visits of nearly 99,000 seniors with serious illnesses before and after implementation of PRIM-ER. Health systems can realize a 6.7%

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Researchers have found mounting evidence pointing to the benefits of telehealth utilization among serious and terminally ill patient populations. Telehealth services were also tied to reduced caregiver burden and greater care coordination for remote, rural and underserved communities, the research found.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Instances of violence, abuse and trauma can result in higher levels of pain and increased risk of depression, fatigue and loneliness at the end of life, research has found. Research has increasingly found that minority groups often report less satisfaction and a lack of pain and symptom management, resulting in overall poorer quality of care.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Blue Ridge social worker Tina Thomas developed the game module in partnership with Dr. Elizabeth Kilmer, a training and researcher from Save Point Behavioral Health. The program aims to foster emotional healing through creative, low-risk social interactions guided by professional grief counselors.

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Daily Nurse

MARCH 17, 2025

As Certified Nurses Day (March 19) celebrations begin, the Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing (BCEN) is supporting nurses who invest in specialty certification with new research, consumer education, free nurse recognition tools, and a special promotion. Later this year, BCEN will develop a leadership-focused survey.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Not only is there no established model, but little research exists in this area. As spiritual care specialists and expert listeners, chaplains are uniquely positioned to participate in important conversations related to patients core values, embedded beliefs and their preferences, Penate said during the assembly.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The consensus paper, published in Nursing Outlook , underscores research from 2023 reports by Blue Cross and Blue Shield, and the Congressional Research Service, that found adults with MCC are the largest, fastest growing U.S. patient population. Adults with MCC represent one of the highest-need segments of the U.S.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

More than a decade of data has found that CAPABLE programs have helped to reduce the impact of functional impairment and disability, enhance motivation and self-efficacy, improve health disparities, address emotional health and decrease hospitalizations and nursing home stays, according to a research analysis from the John Hopkins School of Nursing.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The researchers, from San Diego-based Scripps Health, also found that palliative consults increased 10x in the ED, contributing to increased hospice and palliative care clinic referrals. Health systems can realize a 6.7%

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Hospice News

JANUARY 8, 2025

More than one-third of all households statewide have at least one senior citizen, a number anticipated to swell by 2030, according to a report from the State of Hawaiis Research and Economic Analysis Division. Census Bureau.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Researchers have increasingly dug into the leading barriers to equitable access, with these efforts expanding beyond racial and ethnic identities. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) has helped back these initiatives in part with research grants. million in minority research grants to support health equity research.

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