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. Other end-of-life issues that may be included in an advance directive are the individual’s preferences for comfort care, ventilation, tube feeding, and organ donation.

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Traditions Health

MAY 1, 2023

Caring for Someone with ALS Caring for someone with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) can be a challenging experience for even the most concerned and diligent of caregivers. Eventually, all the muscles that a person can control are affected, forcing the person to use a ventilator and/or feeding tube.

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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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Nurse.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Once hospice care is appropriate, the hospice team will need to identify the family’s wishes if the patient did not express end-of-life goals in advance by: Establishing care goals — Hospice nurses can help families and caregivers have discussions and make decisions concerning end-of-life issues. Contacting caregivers or family repeatedly.

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Nurse.com

AUGUST 22, 2022

Additional equipment such as fans and ventilators made it difficult for nurses to be heard as they tried to offer kind words of comfort to patients. Common effects of moral injury on caregivers might include: Negative changes in behavior (both significant and ongoing). Loss of motivation. Weakened sense of empathy or compassion.

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Nurse.com

AUGUST 22, 2022

Additional equipment such as fans and ventilators made it difficult for nurses to be heard as they tried to offer kind words of comfort to patients. Common effects of moral injury on caregivers might include: Negative changes in behavior (both significant and ongoing). Loss of motivation. Weakened sense of empathy or compassion.

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Home Care Pulse

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Alice has stated that she is unsure about a feeding tube but is certain she does not want a ventilator or other assistive breathing device. Care provider roles and responsibilities Do your caregivers know what a child life specialist is and how they can help?

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Hearts for Hospice & Home Health

JANUARY 6, 2021

Benefits of hospice include: Improved physical and psychological symptoms Caregiver relief Reduced hospitalizations Lowered hospitalization costs Reduced hospital deaths Barriers to initiating hospice Studies have shown that providers initiate hospice too late- patients die within weeks of entering hospice.

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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 28, 2024

And that helped them focus on that instead of, say, the blood pressure, the vasopressors or the ventilator settings that day. And then they had to be receiving 48 hours of continuous mechanical ventilation at a minimum and be an adult. Eric: Well, let’s talk about caregivers. Eric: And how did you do that? Eric: Okay.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

But it sounds from your description that the basic concern would arise there too, that whether it’s the patient or the patient’s family caregivers that have values and goals that are promoting comfort oriented care and, oh by the way, they also completed a POLST, that’s entirely plausible. Karl: Okay.

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GeriPal

MAY 26, 2022

If I was somebody where if I had had to miss work, if I was, say, the sole caregiver for kids and I had dealt with side effects, it might have been more of a sacrifice. Because you might consider it both to recognize that some people have taken steps, and in some cases for me, it was not a big sacrifice, it was great to get vaccinated.

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The Nurse Break

DECEMBER 23, 2022

At one stage the backup generators failed, draining the room of the intensive care specialists as they sprinted up to ICU to help ventilate their patients by hand. From social workers, chaplains and ex-ED staff who turned up to volunteer their services, to patients and relatives who became caregivers themselves.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

And yet, when the reality of breathing difficulties, BIPAP, the talks of tracheostomy and ventilators set in, what had seemed so clear on that piece of paper, no longer seemed so clear. And this caregiver saying, “I don’t know how much longer I can do this.

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

We sometimes take care of patients who are on home ventilators, so coming in for an office visit is not practically feasible. In our particular practice, we take care of a very large population of patients with ALS who of course have a lot of physical disability.

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