Shining Light Hospice
JUNE 7, 2022
This can be a covered benefit to relieve caregiver burnout, or to provide continuous care if the main caregiver cannot do so for a brief period of time. The focus of Hospice Care is not curative, meaning no traditional life prolonging treatment such as chemo or surgery are continued.
Seasons Hospice
MARCH 26, 2023
This type of request is often made by those wishing to avoid life-prolonging treatments such as ventilation or artificial nutrition when there is no hope for recovery. In some cases, the advance directive will indicate that palliative care should be used without limitation until death occurs.
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GeriPal
MARCH 10, 2022
Caroline: As a very young caregiver myself for my parents who had advanced dementia, as a teenager, this was just a really powerful song that just hit home as a caregiver. Many residents dying with untreated symptoms, often after multiple high hospitalizations, life prolonging treatments, and very little specialty palliative care.
GeriPal
MARCH 30, 2023
It’s a story about caregiving. That caregiving piece, like I want to see something actionable. How can this be, somebody who’s so deeply invested and embedded in hospice and palliative care, caregiver for her mother? It’s at this point where she’s talking about highly aggressive life-prolonging treatment.
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