Hospice News
APRIL 4, 2024
It can also be more difficult to address social determinants of health needs and provide assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs) with caregiver support lagging among rural populations, providers noted. A lack of trained hospice and palliative care professionals in rural regions also presents a barrier to access.
Hospice News
JANUARY 31, 2024
Palliative care, pediatric end-of-life care and end-of-life doula (EOLD) services are top of mind for hospices that are diversifying their services in 2024. Fewer than half of 143 respondents to Hospice News’ 2024 Outlook Survey , conducted with Homecare Homebase, reported that their hospice organizations would pursue new care types this year.
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Hospice News
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Hospices provide medical care plans, while the center’s staff provides 24/7 personal care, medication administration and assistance with meals, bathing and other activities of daily living (ADLs). ProMedica began divesting its home health and hospice services earlier this year with the sale of Heartland Hospice and other assets to Gentiva.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 26, 2023
Summary Transcript Summary Often podcasts meet clinical reality. That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. But rarely does the podcast and clinical reality meet in the same day. Lynn Flint, author of the NEJM perspective titled, “Rehabbed to Death,” joins Eric and I as co-host.
GeriPal
JANUARY 12, 2023
My past boss, Seth Landefeld, wrote a Seminole paper on this back in 1996 in the New England Journal, showing that ACE units improved things like ADLs at discharge, discharged to long-term institutions. So before we get into that, ACE units have been around for over 25 years. Just gigantic.
Hospice News
OCTOBER 19, 2023
PPS score, the prognostic statement, the disease progression, the ADLs, whatever it was, it was missing one or a multiple of those. We’re getting comments from nurses, some social workers, from chaplains saying, “I get comments back from the family saying, thank you. It’s an administrative burden.
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