NHPCO

APRIL 15, 2024

For Immediate Release April 15, 2024 (Alexandria, VA) – CaringInfo , a program of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), has launched a new consumer blog, Insights , offering timely and practical content on serious-illness care and services from a variety of perspectives in both English and Spanish.

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1-800-HOSPICE

JUNE 20, 2023

They assist patients and families in understanding treatment options, clarifying goals of care, and ensuring that the patient’s wishes are respected. Social workers may also help patients complete advance directives, such as living wills and durable power of attorney documents.

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1-800-HOSPICE

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Here we explore this choice and how it affects hospice care. This document is usually for people in their last months of life. It’s more helpful in emergency situations than the living will , because it results in a yellow and red piece of paper with standard formatting. What is a DNR? DNR stands for “do not resuscitate.”

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Seasons Hospice

APRIL 8, 2021

Here are three vital health care directives for individuals who can no longer make decisions for themselves: A durable power of attorney for health care designates a person to make care decisions once the ill individual cannot. Living wills are records of a person’s wishes for medical treatment towards the end of life. .

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

Julien: He basically had an end of life care discussion with this patient. Back then we were a blog and Ken’s post, which is titled, Survival from Severe Sepsis: The infection is cured, but all is not well, is still one of our most viewed posts on Jerry Powell. Ken Covinsky wrote about it for GeriPal.

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