Hospice News

APRIL 15, 2024

Lagging supportive services around social determinants of health and limited access to hospice and palliative care are driving disparities among rural family caregivers. Family caregivers in rural areas are more likely to experience social determinants of health that negatively affect the provision of palliative and end of life care.

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 6, 2023

Article Contents: – Introduction Article Contents: For Training Managers, Hospice & Healthcare Facilities Share: We’re Home Care Pulse, a leading provider of experience management & surveys, caregiver/CNA training, and online reputation management.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Without family caregivers, most hospice and palliative care patients would be unable to receive care in the home. Now, some emerging payment models are including caregiver support as a key component. Insufficient payment avenues and a fragmented health care system are some of the challenges at play, Lee stated. “We

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Caring Senior Service

JANUARY 22, 2024

Caring for a loved one at the end of their life can be emotionally challenging. This type of care requires a deep commitment to preserving your loved one's dignity and maintaining their privacy as they pass. Family caregivers can help provide this type of support and care to their loved ones as they pass.

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Hospice Chaplaincy

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Saul Ebema A few years ago, my wife befriended an elderly African woman from west Africa. Recently, that woman had a serious health scare. Due her limited understanding of the English language, communication with her healthcare team became hard. Her children and other family members who were somewhat fluent in English began to take […]

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Caring Senior Service

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Caring for a dying loved one is undoubtedly one of the most challenging and emotionally charged experiences one can go through. It's a time when compassion, patience, and understanding are paramount. While it can be emotionally taxing, it can also be a deeply meaningful experience for you and your loved one.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Support for family caregivers of seriously ill patients is both limited and fragmented, but changing the conversation about the end of life could fill some of the gaps. It’s a very heavy burden of caregiving to then step out and start finding the resources that they need.”.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2024

Black Americans are frequently denied access to hospice and palliative care due to structural racism, and many of those communities lack sufficient information to make end-of-life care decisions, new research has found. Access to hospice and palliative care is perceived as lacking.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

The aim was to break down the most common barriers of access among Asian American communities – misconceptions and fear around end-of-life care, Lin explained. This misconception largely comes from differences in end-of-life care delivery in Asian countries, Lin stated. That’s so powerful.”

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Hospice News

APRIL 23, 2024

A group of Wisconsin-based organizations, including hospices, are working to improve end-of-life care among homeless populations. Dubbed Solace Home, the four-bed residential facility opened today and will provide end-of-life housing and caregiving for terminally ill individuals living in unstable or insecure situations.

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Hospice News

MAY 3, 2024

Breaking down the barriers to stronger trauma-informed end-of-life care requires heightened awareness, legislative action and improved care delivery approaches. Caregiver neglect represents 5.1% Department of Justice (DOJ) reported. of these cases, with psychological and physical abuse impacting 4.6%

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary The proportion of people living with dementia who identify as Black/African Americans is on the rise , and so too are the proportion of caregivers who identify as Black/African American. Why a focus on Black/African American caregivers and people with dementia? We talk in particular about: Terminology.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Aging, incarcerated populations often have poor end-of-life care experiences, with a lack of trained hospice workers at the crux of the issue. Incarcerated hospice caregivers must abide by certain rules and processes when it comes to providing others with assistance, depending on the prison, Garlock explained.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Some federal legislators are working to address workforce issues in the hospice space, as well as bolstering support for family caregivers. In a fractious political environment, hospice and palliative care policy is one area in which members of both parties find common ground. We don’t have to do that,” Blumenhauer said.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

During the time that Chinn’s family was receiving care at Suncoast, the hospice was also caring for Terry Schiavo, whose story captivated much of the nation in 2005. The Terry Schaivo story is not ours to tell, but many of those components affect end-of-life care every day.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Caregivers can be a key to reducing hospice revocations and the associated emergency department costs, according to Benjamin Swig, director of Acadian Health. These areas have rising volumes of aging populations with high levels of in-home acute care needs, a main reason the company chose to set its strategic sights there, according to Swig.

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The Caregiving Years Training Academy

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We do our best to keep our career on track as we manage our caregiving responsibilities. Sometimes, though, we need to take a temporary leave because of a crisis, our caree’s decline, our caree’s transition to a different care setting or our caree’s end of life care needs.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 26, 2023

EOLDs have had a growing presence in the serious illness and end-of-life care space, but their services are not reimbursed by Medicare or other insurance, according to Jane Euler, co-founder and chief doula of Present for You LLC. However, building these collaborations has come with financial barriers.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

When that isn’t possible, Big Bend Hospice’s inpatient units provide an at-home feeling along with specialized end-of-life care that often exceeds a family’s caregiving capability.” Deborah Morris, chief medical officer for Big Bend Hospice, said in a statement.

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Hospice News

MARCH 6, 2024

Coastal Hospice & Palliative Care recently began exploring ways to improve clinical outcomes during the last days of life, an important quality measure in end-of-life care. All those cues help in developing a trusting relationship with the caregivers to also voice what they observe.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2024

Researchers examined the sociodemographic, clinical and regional factors associated with variations in place of care trajectories. Several factors impact where a patient receives end-of-life care, including medical, socioeconomic, geographic and demographic aspects, the study found.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Cassidy is a nurse practitioner, board-certified in palliative care, who also worked for 30 years as a professor of nursing. During her clinical practice in a hospital, she recognized that the end-of-life care needs of some patient populations were not being met. “So It’s a gap in the continuum of care.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Patients and physicians should always work together to update their plans at the varying stages of life and health. At VITAS Healthcare, we recently conducted a survey to understand Americans’ views on advance care planning and end-of-life care. What is the role of hospices in that process?

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Hospice News

MARCH 28, 2024

YoloCares has an adult day program and offers caregiver and advance care planning services, along with grief support. Its palliative care program launched in 2016. Other programs like the Center for Loss & Hope and the Center for Caregiver Support will eventually be available to clients in all 10 counties.”

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The decision to join forces with SCAN Group marks a strategic step forward in Guaranteed’s goals of expanding end-of-life care delivery among vulnerable underserved aging adults, according to McGlory. “As The platform also connects patients to in-person end-of-life care services.

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Hospice News

JULY 6, 2023

They established Mettle to provide a unique model of patient and caregiver support — counseling by interdisciplinary palliative care clinicians. We go beyond the norm of palliative, hospice or caregiving support programs, so we don’t really have a box to define and label ourselves,” Dolan told Hospice News. “We

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Hospice News

APRIL 29, 2024

Many factors play a role in recruitment and retention, but having a firm grasp of the competing priorities of different interdisciplinary team members is a significant part of sustainable care delivery, according to Tanya Marion, chief human resources officer, Enhabit Inc. NYSE: EHAB).

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

With dementia conditions growing more common among today’s seniors, having data around end-of-life care utilization trends is important, according to Jarrín. Issues among dementia patients and family caregivers are at the forefront of an increasing number of research initiatives such as these, said Jarrín.

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Hospice News

MAY 6, 2024

Complicating ethical considerations is a lack of a sufficient hospice workforce trained to provide pediatric end-of-life care to growing patient populations in need of support, Torkildson stated.

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SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast

MARCH 16, 2018

She reports on her study which aimed to (a) describe a prison-based end-of-life program utilizing inmate peer caregivers, (b) identify inmate-caregiver motivations for participation, and (c) analyze the role of building trust and meaningful relationships within the correctional end-of-life care setting.

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Hospice News

MARCH 15, 2024

Another really important intervention is making sure patients, families and informal caregivers have sufficient understanding of the medications. There is a role for everyone on the team in supporting patients and caregivers in medication management.

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

Data are reshaping the health care space, and hospice is no exception. Data has played a large role in the ability to gauge the impact of end-of life care. Hospice providers have needed a window into access and utilization, as well as how lawmakers are shaping policies around health care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 19, 2024

They established Mettle to provide a unique model of patient and caregiver support — counseling by interdisciplinary palliative care clinicians.

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Hospice News

APRIL 11, 2024

The faith-based nonprofit organization also has a telehospice program, which offers virtual telehealth support to hospice caregivers and patients. Terminally ill residents at the Lourdes facility who are unable to remain at home or lack caregiver support will be eligible to receive care at the inpatient hospice.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

I refer to whether a clinician feels they have the time to provide the care that is most important to achieve quality end-of-life care,” Threats says. “Do To provide effective care planning to the patient and family? That’s why clinicians want to work in hospice: to deliver that hands-on, quality end-of-life care.

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The Caregiving Years Training Academy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Paying family caregivers works through Medicaid waiver programs. A few weeks ago, I wrote that family caregivers solve the direct care workforce shortage. We already have a model that works in the Medicaid space through programs like Structured Family Caregiving and Self-Directed Services. It can work with other payers.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Having access to their visits with families and patients can help clinicians pick up any pieces that were left behind – especially for caregivers. The California-based hospice has calculated these cost savings by taking the number of patient care hours served by a volunteer and multiplying this amount by average hourly staff rates.

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