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The Roles of Medical Professionals in Hospice Care

Shining Light Hospice

The goal of hospice care is not to cure the patient, but rather to improve the quality of life during this difficult time. Hospice services can be provided at home or in inpatient facilities with staff experienced in end-of-life care.

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Why Patients with Lymphoma Are Less Likely to Receive Hospice

1-800-HOSPICE

Hospice Improves Quality of Life Hospice has been associated with improved quality of life at the end of life and reductions in the risk of psychiatric illness among bereaved caregivers. Place of death: correlations with quality of life of patients with cancer and predictors of bereaved caregivers’ mental health.

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Black/African American Caregivers of Older Adults Living with Dementia: Fayron Epps and Karen Moss

GeriPal

You said something about your research in this area this morning pertaining to views of that term, end of life or end-of-life care. Here you are listening, listening to these former caregivers, these bereaved caregivers tell their stories and giving them an opportunity to give back and contribute.

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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

GeriPal

With Goodwin Hospice patients, not as much because they have that support from the bereavement group at Goodwin Hospice. In fact, I worked for senior care options payer-provider in Massachusetts, where I am coupled end-of-life care from hospice back in 2009.

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Ep.18: BK Books with Barbara Karnes: Why Approaching Hospice Holistically is Necessary to the Success of the Care Continuum

Home Care Pulse

I’m the senior nurse educator at H C P, Speaker 1 ( 00:25 ): And you’re listening to Vision, the podcast for leaders and forward thinkers in the care industry. Today we’ll be discussing the importance of unifying the care continuum for end of life care. Speaker 3 ( 00:38 ): Hi, glad to be here.

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Evidence-Based Messaging for Serious Illness Care: A Podcast with Tony Back and Marian Grant

GeriPal

When you think about this and this toolkit, are there some really basic marketing ideas or tips that you have when we think about messaging, advance care planning, hospice or palliative care. In that, again this is GeriPal Podcast, geriatrics falls into the same boat. And the first service is bereavement. Tony: Hello.

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Prolonged Grief Disorder: Holly Prigerson

GeriPal

Alex: We are so fortunate to be joined by one of my former mentors who I’ve known for 20 years, Holly Prigerson, who is now Irving Sherwood Wright Professor of Geriatrics at Weill Cornell Medical School and Professor of Sociology and Medicine and Director of the Center for Research on End Of Life Care. Eric: Yeah.

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