Hospice News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

An expansion of “death literacy” is necessary to improve end-of-life care in the United States, according to Michael Connelly, former CEO of Mercy Health. This is the subject of Connelly’s recent book, The Journey’s End: An Investigation of Death & Dying in America. It’s just postponing it.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

So, we asked my older son, Kai, who’s 18 years old, he’s an adult, “What is Palliative care?” ” And, he said, “End of life care.” Like us, subscribe to us on your podcast feed. You held your head like a hero, on a history book page. Alex: Welcome to the second half.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

To examine how clinicians might act in the face of such bans, we turn to Lori Freedman, who wrote a book about clinicians (primarily Ob-Gyn’s) who work in Catholic Hospitals. She describes the “workarounds” these clinicians used to skirt the rules in order to provide reproductive care for women. . We could have talked for hours.

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Living With Hospice

JANUARY 30, 2021

I do have a lot of experience with hospice care, death and dying. For many years, I've seen hospice and end of life care from the patient's perspective, from the caregivers perspective. And of course, we've been bombarded by movies and books and all sorts of things. I'm not a social worker. How cool was that?

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Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

or too much ancient history, but you know, like, like a lot of nurses, when I became an RN, I was told you gotta work in acute care. You gotta take all this book, learning that you’ve gotten at school and you’ve gotta put it to use in the real world, in acute care, in the hospital setting in order to really hone your skills.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

Julien: He basically had an end of life care discussion with this patient. ” And that has 34,000 likes, which for a palliative care tweet is beyond what other tweets have achieved. He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. It won’t take long, go get it by yourself.” Eric: Yeah. Alex: Yeah.

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