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Some Families May Not Access Hospice Without Caregiver Support

Hospice News

Even when a caregiver is present, that person may be elderly or ill themselves, or be unable to be in the home around the clock due to work or other obligations. The nation is in need of a “total overhaul” in terms of how we think about caregiving and its place in the health care system, according to Sonya Dolan and BJ Miller, M.D.,

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Anxiety in Late Life and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson

GeriPal

Alex is a triple-boarded (palliative care, internal medicine, and psychiatry) assistant professor of medicine at Stanford. Brianna is one of UCSF’s palliative care fellows who just completed her psychiatry residency. I remember you brought up something called the bathe technique. And so bathe is an acronym.

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Hospice Care For ALS: Admission Eligibility & Criteria

Traditions Health

Hospice care also assists with other activities of daily living as well, such as bathing and taking prescribed medications. As mentioned, a lack of mobility caused by ALS can lead to a struggle with activities of daily living such as moving around, cooking, cleaning, bathing, and eating.

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Common Questions About Hospice Care

Traditions Health

Hospice care provides a holistic way of managing feelings of pain and loneliness by allowing an individual to live as comfortably and as fully as possible. What Is Included in Hospice Care? Hospice care involves palliative care, such as symptom and pain relief, as opposed to curative measures.

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Caring for Someone with ALS

Traditions Health

Moreover, if your loved one is experiencing depression because of their ALS diagnosis, know that hospice care can provide the support, care, and therapy they may need to overcome ALS-triggered depression. When to Seek Help Caring for someone with ALS often presents many challenges for the patient’s primary caregiver.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

Talking about palliative care here on this podcast, in our state, gosh, this was in the early ’90s, physician assisted death was on the ballot. And so- Eric: A lot of care was just a tiny, tiny baby by that back then. And from there, I went to work on a statewide ballot initiative.

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

GeriPal

To start us off we talk with Kara Bischoff about the article she just published in JAMA Network on a re-validation of the Palliative Performance Scale (PPS) in a modern day palliative care setting. But it’s still the prognostic tool used most often by palliative care clinicians. Why do this?