Hospice News
DECEMBER 15, 2023
Collaborations with mental health organizations that touch these patients’ lives will be pivotal for those who could potentially reach palliative care. For example, some of these patients may need additional support when it comes to housing, drug and substance abuse treatment and caregiving needs compared to others, he stated.
NHPCO
APRIL 15, 2024
Making Your Healthcare Wishes and Medical Choices Known Advance Directive vs. Living Will: Which Do You Need? Advance care planning includes completing an advance directive – sometimes known as a living will – and appointing a healthcare power of attorney – someone to make healthcare decisions on your behalf when you are no longer able to.
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Hospice News
MARCH 4, 2024
I’d like to ask you the same question as it pertains to the family and to the caregiver. We go and we have these living wills, where you don’t necessarily have advanced directives or plans, right only 34% to 36% [of patients] right now have an advance directive. Not all of our caretakers are formal caregivers.
Hope Hospice
APRIL 28, 2020
Highlighting the urgency of this need to be prepared was an email I recently received from a gentleman who has attended Hope’s Family Caregiver Education Series. The post Caregiving Best Practices: Get Healthcare, Financial, and Legal Affairs in Order appeared first on Hope Hospice and Health Services.
Hope Hospice
APRIL 28, 2020
Highlighting the urgency of this need to be prepared was an email I recently received from a gentleman who has attended Hope’s Family Caregiver Education Series. The post Caregiver Mistakes: Not Having Healthcare, Financial, and Legal Affairs in Order appeared first on Hope Hospice and Health Services.
Hospice News
MAY 17, 2023
When advanced care planning first came out, it was really this transactional process of completing an advance directive, which includes designating a health care surrogate and completing a living will. And this is a very legal aspect, rather than the relational aspect of advanced care planning that is really helpful.
Hope Hospice
APRIL 28, 2020
Hope Hospice is publishing a five-part monthly series about common family caregiver mistakes. I had planned for this month’s blog, second in our series about common mistakes that family caregivers make, to be about the importance of having a support system in place. The post Top Family Caregiver Mistakes: Part 1.5;
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