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Assessing Caregiver Burnout for Hospice, Palliative Patients

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Given the significance of family caregivers in hospice care, providers can benefit from having tools to assess whether or not they are experiencing burnout. Caregiver burnout carries high risk for emotional, social and financial consequences for caregivers. There’s a very high number of U.S.

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Caring for the Caregivers: Keys for Helping Family Members in Palliative Care Roles

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Given the crucial role that caregivers play in families, their well-being is central to palliative care, and providers need to assist these caregivers by developing sustainable models of support for them. In 2021, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared caregiving to be an incipient public health issue.

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Telehealth Effective in Supporting Rural Caregivers

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Palliative care delivered via telehealth is effective at improving access to caregiver support. For the study, caregivers of hospitalized patients who dwell in rural areas participated in a randomized, 8-week intervention consisting of video visits conducted by a palliative care-certified registered nurse.

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Palliative Care’s Value-Based Future

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In traditional fee-for-service systems, palliative care is not being reimbursed at a rate where often you can deliver the services that you need to meet patient and caregiver needs,” Friedman said. There’s tremendous value to patients and also tremendous economic value in palliative care.

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Naturopath’s Potential in Palliative Care

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Greater care collaborations between naturopathic and palliative care providers could address a wide range of unmet patient and caregiver needs, according to Luepker. Naturopathic medicine and palliative care may have more in common than meets the eye. The post Naturopath’s Potential in Palliative Care appeared first on Hospice News.

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Improving Inclusive Palliative Care for Transgender Patients

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Understanding a transgender’s chosen versus biological family as their core caregiver unit is among the main priorities to address in education efforts, according to Daniel Morrow, hospice pharmacist consultant and senior clinical manager at Enclara Pharmacia. Furthermore, 85.3% of palliative teams, respectively. Furthermore, 85.3%

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Most Rural Regions Lack Palliative Care Specialists

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The lion’s share of palliative care physicians dwell in more densely populated communities, creating disparities among the rural seriously ill population. Recent research has found that more than 90% of board certified palliative physicians and nurse practitioners nationwide were located in metropolitan and urban areas in 2022. according to Chen.