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Caregiving Best Practices: Get Healthcare, Financial, and Legal Affairs in Order

Hope Hospice

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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Caregiver Mistakes: Not Having Healthcare, Financial, and Legal Affairs in Order

Hope Hospice

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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Top Family Caregiver Mistakes:  Part 1.5; Not having healthcare, financial, and legal affairs in order

Hope Hospice

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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Care Across the Health Care Continuum: Communication and Education are the Keys to Success

Home Care Pulse

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? Tips for you!