Seasons Hospice

OCTOBER 26, 2022

If You or Your Loved One Is In Hospice Care, Be Proactive. If you have been diagnosed with a terminal illness and are receiving hospice care, you may want to consider creating a living will. If you are receiving hospice care, your hospice team can help you create a living will if you desire. If so, for how long?

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. And we invited Tamryn Gray from the Dana Farber joins us to ask insightful questions, including: What blood sugar range should we target for patients in the nursing home or hospice?

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

I think of artificial intelligence as just being something that uses machines to do tasks usually reserved for humans, but I think Charlotta probably has a better, more specific definition than that, especially around machine learning. You could imagine it being used as a requirement for hospice, for example. ” Eric: Yeah.

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Home Care Pulse

AUGUST 11, 2022

To make matters worse, hospices have lost social worker employees at a faster rate than any other health care setting in the care continuum as turnover rises to 27%. So while paying your employees more definitely impacts retention, the data shows that your caregivers are still looking for more than just pay.

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Living With Hospice

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

In this episode of Living With Hospice, Mitch makes good on a promise made during the first episode to answer questions that readers have submitted over time. Transcript: Welcome to another episode of Living With Hospice. So, as kids would say, definitely my bad! By the way, Hospice is not an American thing.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Devon, I see that you have an R21 to study concurrent prescribing of opioids and benzodiazepines, which are like the second most common thing I prescribe in combination after opioids and laxatives for people in hospice. And so, for-profit hospices, for-profit methadone clinics pop up everywhere, and their care is pretty variable.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Most of the debate seems rather wonky, as honestly it feels like we are getting stuck in the weeds of semantics and definitions, like what counts as ACP versus in the moment decisions. And every time I do palliative care and I think I want to jump ahead, like somebody says, “Oh, so and so wants hospice. Get the hospice referral.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

How definitions bind us, for example the division between chronic pain and palliative pain in much of the US. Somehow we were not very limited by definitions. Definitions can be shackles. Raj: We are not limited by definitions because we started our first non non-government organization. We create definitions.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary On today’s podcast, we’ve invited four hospice and palliative care social media influencers (yes, that’s a thing!), We’ve invited: Julie McFadden (aka Hospice Nurse Julie ): Julie is a social media superstar, with 1.5 And then Hospice Nurse Julie. Julie McFadden goes by Hospice Nurse Julie.

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Home Care Pulse

OCTOBER 11, 2022

She’s got a deep background in both home health and hospice, uh, from both a visiting nurse perspective, and then also management in both of those. So your rehabs, your sniffs, your home health, and your hospices, and how they all work together. I was always really big and my staff would laugh at me in hospice.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. Whether in direct practice or in research and academia, we should work together to help Hospice and Palliative Care Social Work meet its full potential. . Summary Transcript Summary. Transcript.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

However if you want to take a deeper dive, check out his website “ The Ink Vessel ” or his amazing twitter feed which has a lot of his work in it. If you look back to some of my cartoons from late in residency, they showed just how dehumanized I felt and definitely give windows into how dehumanized I imagined my patients to be.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

Would such ethical guidelines foster or feed suspicion of the motivations of bioethics? . He has an interest in hospice and of life care, pain management and medical ethics. And so we had a grant in 1980, right before the first AIDS patients came, to start a hospice unit. We could have talked for hours. It’s bigger.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

He’s been a hospice and nursing home director. And whether tube feeding should be on there, that’s never an emergency decision. Kelly: Yeah, no, definitely. A lot of them ended up having functional limitations that made that if they came from home, they ended up going to a nursing facility or hospice.

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Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

And my main focus, which I loved in that role was to help develop professional home health and hospice aids. you know, I think there’s, there’s definitely been a change in the perception of continuing education and how important it is for all healthcare professionals. Amanda Sternklar ( 03:24 ): That’s amazing.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

GeriPal podcast with Tom Gill on the Precipitating Events Study, distressing symptoms, disability, and hospice. He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. And we did one with Tom Gill about the precipitating events project back in 2017, early days for us when he talked about restricting symptoms and hospice. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

She went to an inpatient hospice and they kept her comfortable for a couple of weeks and she passed away. So we followed Gretchen Schwarze’s definition, which was 1% or higher inpatient mortality was considered high-risk. You’ll have a feeding tube. And the nurses says you’re making the right decision.

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