Hospice News

APRIL 12, 2024

Seriously ill children may be at increased risk of experiencing abuse and neglect, an issue challenging palliative care providers’ ability to deliver trauma-informed care among pediatric populations. It’s this specter of influence in how decisions are made and who is involved in caregiving for the child.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Reimbursement pressures, workforce strains and lagging awareness represent pain points preventing greater utilization of palliative care. These factors can weigh even heavier on access and quality of life for seriously ill children and their families in need of these services. Each year an estimated 2.5

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The topics range from unmet staff and patient needs, financial and operational headwinds and research fueling innovative care delivery approaches. The topics range from unmet staff and patient needs, financial and operational headwinds and research fueling innovative care delivery approaches.

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Hospice News

APRIL 5, 2024

The HAP Foundation is partnering with the Child Life Hospice and Palliative Network (CLHPN) to improve awareness of and access to child life services among seriously ill youths and their families. The HAP Foundation helps support research and education in hospice and palliative care.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

To provide context, we are joined by Karen Steinhauser, a social scientist at Duke who has been studying spirituality for years (and published one of the most cited papers in palliative care on factors considered important at the end of life , as well as one of my favorite qualitative papers to give to research trainees ).

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

What would it take to transform dementia care? In order to truly transform dementia care we need to think much broader than the amyloid hypothesis. Her most recent book is Dementia Friendly Communities: why we need them and how we can create them . Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera.

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