1-800-HOSPICE
MARCH 28, 2023
5 Patient recall of end-of-life discussions correlates with higher quality of life for patients and improved bereavement outcomes for caregivers. Journal of the American Geriatric Society. Journal of the American Geriatric Society. Journal of the American Geriatric Society. J Clin Oncol. 10.1200/JCO.2015.61.9239.
1-800-HOSPICE
MARCH 21, 2023
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. J Palliat MEd.
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Shining Light Hospice
MARCH 27, 2023
Hospice physicians may also have additional certifications such as geriatrics, oncology, or palliative care to demonstrate their knowledge of this field. These doctors are highly trained and experienced in providing comfort and managing pain and other symptoms that arise during the end-of-life process.
GeriPal
MARCH 7, 2024
Check out the Pub Crawl GeriPal post for more info, and follow #HPMParty on Twitter to keep us as we crawl! ** In the last several years, I’ve seen more and more articles about end-of-life doulas ( like this NY Times article from 2021 ). Despite this, in my 20-year career as a palliative care physician, I have yet to see a death doula in the wild.
GeriPal
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
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. Alex: I think it was Carol Levine who wrote a New England Journal perspective as a caregiver saying, “Nobody’s listening. Isn’t anybody listening?”
GeriPal
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Earlier this year palliative care was the correct response to the following clue on the game show Jeopardy: From a Latin word for “to cloak”, it’s the type of care given to seriously ill patients to provide comfort without curing. So what do we do about it? What’s wrong with the “pictures of hands clasping each other” as our palliative care meme?
Home Care Pulse
JULY 25, 2023
He, there’s so much focus given to bereavement and grief as well, and he fears that again, there’s just not enough thought giving to what that dying person themselves is going through, whether they’re afraid to die with any secrets surrounded by platitudes. So that’ll be the cough and all of that stuff.
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