End-of-life care Related Topics 
Hospice News
AUGUST 19, 2022
Researchers recently found that “trigger systems” signaling when a patient may need palliative care can boost utilization of those services, as well as advance care planning and hospice admissions. Identifying triggers for palliative care.
Hospice News
JULY 22, 2022
More people are stepping into death doula work, according to founders of the Colorado-based organization Deathwives. Many come striving for change after witnessing loved ones receive poor end-of-life care or enduring bereavement without support.
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Solace
JANUARY 6, 2023
Every year, January brings a flurry of new laws as states around the country add or update legislation on everything from new state holidays to jaywalking. In 2023, some new laws will impact those at the end of life or the people caring for, or grieving, them.
Seasons Hospice
JUNE 7, 2022
Tulsa End of Life Care. Seasons Hospice is here to provide the best possible Tulsa end-of-life care for you and your loved ones. Our team of experienced and compassionate professionals will be there for you every step of the way.
Hospice Promise
MARCH 26, 2023
Hospice Promise is dedicated to providing compassionate end-of-life care and making a positive difference in the lives of our patients, their families, and our community.
Together for Short Lives
MAY 18, 2022
The post Urgent call to end postcode lottery of 24/7 end of life care for seriously ill children appeared first on Together for Short Lives
Aging Life Care Association
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
Johnson, RN, BSN, MHA, CHPN, CCM – Aging Life Care Association® Member Palliative care and hospice care are both specialized healthcare models that focus on palliation, or relief of symptoms, associated with serious, debilitating illnesses. by Melissa L.
Hospice Nurse Hero
FEBRUARY 5, 2022
I will make a small commission if you make a purchase through one of these links, at no extra cost to you. End-of-life care is intimate and unique for every patient. Regardless of the situation, your role is to comfort the family and take care of the patient.
Seasons Hospice
OCTOBER 26, 2022
Make Your End Of Life Wishes Known. However, drafting a will is an important step in ensuring that your wishes are carried out and your loved ones are taken care of after you’re gone. If You or Your Loved One Is In Hospice Care, Be Proactive.
SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
What is already known about the topic: - The degree to which individuals access and use palliative and end-of-life care services varies across communities and countries. What this paper adds: - This study found that the South Asian community (in Bradford, UK) are currently not ready to engage with palliative and end-of-life care services despite local initiatives to improve awareness.
Together for Short Lives
JULY 22, 2022
The post Bereaved parents urge government to end postcode lottery of 24/7 end of life care for seriously ill children appeared first on Together for Short Lives Bereaved Mum Claire wrote an open letter which was signed by over 1,900 concerned campaigners, which she will hand over to 10 Downing Street today (22 July 2022). Claire’s son George died in in June 2019, two weeks before his sixth birthday.
Daily Nurse
APRIL 25, 2022
RN, collaborated on two studies released by the American Nurses Association’s Center For Ethics and Human Rights and the University of California San Diego Health that include the perspectives of more than 2,374 nurses in the United States on Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD).
SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast
APRIL 13, 2022
This episode features Si Qi Yoong (National University of Singapore, Singapore). There is uncertainty about its roles, scope of practice, regulation and position within the healthcare system. This review clarifies the uncertainty of the death doula movement in terms of its roles, impacts of care and regulation issues. This review identifies five common roles death doulas undertake when providing non-clinical care to support the dying and their families.
The Bucket-List Blog
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Some of the patients in these stories are no longer with us. For those who have since passed, we share these in their memories with deep appreciation for what they have taught us about life and living. Harold Eversole is cared for by our home hospice program.
Healthcare Law Insights podcast
OCTOBER 28, 2020
As we approach the 40th anniversary of the Medicare hospice benefit, we stand at an important reflection point to evaluate end-of-life care and map its future. In this new series, we gather leaders and thinkers from a range of disciplines to explore our needs at the end of life, how they have changed over time and how care models need to adapt. Janet has devoted the second half of her medical career to end-of-life care.
The Bucket-List Blog
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Some of the patients in these stories are no longer with us. For those who have since passed, we share these in their memories with deep appreciation for what they have taught us about life and living. For the family of Rowland Moore, the milestone was bittersweet.
SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast
JANUARY 31, 2022
This episode features Madeleine Juhrmann (Northern Clinical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia. HammondCare Centre for Learning and Research in Palliative Care, Greenwich Hospital, Greenwich, NSW, Australia). Global demand for palliative care is increasing and the reliance on exclusively specialist hospital-based care is becoming unsustainable.
The Bucket-List Blog
OCTOBER 18, 2022
One of Fred’s wishes was simple: go back home again, see Sam, and have a cup of coffee in his favorite spot on the couch. We’ve cared for Fred at home for several months. He chose to come to our Compassionate Care Center, where we’d work to get his symptoms under control.
The Bucket-List Blog
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
Some of the patients in these stories are no longer with us. For those who have since passed, we share these in their memories with deep appreciation for what they have taught us about life and living. We have the honor of caring for Hunter.
The Bucket-List Blog
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Some of the patients in these stories are no longer with us. For those who have since passed, we share these in their memories with deep appreciation for what they have taught us about life and living. In 2016, at the young age of 54, the cancer returned.
The Bucket-List Blog
OCTOBER 17, 2022
This summer, in the middle of a pandemic and while my soon-to-be husband was receiving hospice care, I married the love of my life. For most of them, we were married. But Junann, our hospice chaplain, said, “God makes a way out of no way.” A Letter from Ann.
The Bucket-List Blog
NOVEMBER 19, 2022
Some of the patients in these stories are no longer with us. For those who have since passed, we share these in their memories with deep appreciation for what they have taught us about life and living. Anthony is a young man under our care.
The Bucket-List Blog
OCTOBER 18, 2022
Honoring those who have served our country is one of our greatest joys. Not everyone understands how important it can be for a veteran to be formally recognized for their service, especially as the end of life nears.
The Bucket-List Blog
OCTOBER 18, 2022
For Deloris, it was about including a daughter she adopted later in life to the tattoos she already had that honored her other children. Our hospice-home care team could tell it meant a lot to her, so they got to work. We all have bucket lists, right?
SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast
JUNE 11, 2021
This episode features Dr Lucy Selman (Palliative and End of Life Care Research Group, Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK). Clinicians and funeral officiants have tried to mitigate the impact of infection control measures, for example, using video-technology; however, this has not been done consistently and its acceptability is unknown.
Solace
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
Jacqueline Revere, “ momofmymom ” on social media, was just 29 when a phone call interrupted her “best life” in New York. Her mother was just 59 when doctors found evidence of Alzheimer’s disease.
The Bucket-List Blog
NOVEMBER 19, 2022
Some of the patients in these stories are no longer with us. For those who have since passed, we share these in their memories with deep appreciation for what they have taught us about life and living. All her life, Lois Harrison used the gift of her voice to express and share her faith. But, now in the advanced stages of Parkinson’s disease, Lois could no longer speak. How can you honor life during National Hospice & Palliative Care Month?
Hospice Volunteering
AUGUST 5, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused over 700,000 deaths world-wide and resulted in millions of casualties. Has it led to a greater understanding and acceptance of death as a part of life? Or has it increased our fear of dying, as people witness the devastation COVID has wrought in long-term care homes and other congregate facilities? How has COVID-19 impacted your experience of death and dying?
Solace
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
I’ve known my mother’s love of shopping, her gift of gab, her artistic talents, her fondness for flora and fauna, and her outrageous sense of humor. We would travel this downhill journey of life together and it would be alright.
The Bucket-List Blog
OCTOBER 18, 2022
We met Nancy through her mother who was in our care at the Compassionate Care Center. During a conversation with Nancy one of our nurses, Teresa VanCamp Dickson learned that she felt sad that her mother wouldn’t be with her for her wedding in June. .
HospiceDiary
OCTOBER 17, 2022
I have made my best attempt to find adequate palliative care research being done on managing end-of-life secretions (“the death rattle” people often refer to), and I cannot say I have read sufficient … Continue reading → end of life care dying; bedside vigil; hospiceI find myself in another paradoxical debate.
HospiceDiary
MAY 30, 2022
Many years ago I stood at the edge of the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery in France. I looked out over the vast numbers of white crosses, as far as the eye could see. end of life careMemorial Day is a day to remember fallen heroes. Beneath those nearly 15,000 gravestones lay the US servicemen and women who died mostly […].
Solace
SEPTEMBER 10, 2022
When care at home is no longer adequate for someone with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, it may be time to move to a long-term facility outside the home. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, there’s no “ one-size-fits-all ” formula for choosing the right care.
Palliverse
AUGUST 5, 2022
If you were to have a life threatening infection I would not recommend you to have it treated. “No No treatment of infection please.”. “If Doing so will help us when it comes to prescribing the right doses of medication.”. FOAMPal #PallANZ Clinical Practice end of life care
The Bucket-List Blog
OCTOBER 18, 2022
Elizabeth’s care team got together with her family to make a plan. She was able to watch the entire film from the comfort of her stretcher, provided by Madison County EMS. It seemed to all of us that she used all the resources left to her to make it to, and through, that film.
Changing Lives Podcast
MARCH 21, 2022
Human nature compels us to nurture our loved ones in many ways, feeding being one method - however it is important to recognize that nutrition at the end-of-life is much different than how people eat prior to illness.
Changing Lives Podcast
MARCH 14, 2022
Hospice Quinte has been delivering quality hospice palliative care in our communities, at no charge, since 1985. Learn more about this special kind of health care in this week's Changing Lives podcast.
Changing Lives Podcast
MARCH 28, 2022
Our trained and compassionate volunteers can support those who are bereaved or caring for a loved one who is terminally ill with weekly phone calls. In 2020 Hospice Quinte introduced two new programs – Bereavement Companionship and Caregiver Companionship.
SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast
APRIL 25, 2022
This episode features Professor Scott Murray (Primary Palliative Care Research Group, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK). People living at home with advanced progressive illness require well-coordinated services at all times of the day and night. Early identification for generalist palliative care support and care planning in the community can improve outcomes but requires effective information sharing across services.
SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast
JANUARY 31, 2022
This episode features Professor Scott Murray (Primary Palliative Care Research Group, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK). People living at home with advanced progressive illness require well-coordinated services at all times of the day and night. Early identification for generalist palliative care support and care planning in the community can improve outcomes but requires effective information sharing across services.
HospiceDiary
AUGUST 23, 2020
Though it seems of late there is just too much. A recent visit to a nursing home reminded me … Continue reading → end of life careA wise saying: There is nothing new under the sun. Suffering is our human condition; we all have some experience with it.
SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast
MARCH 16, 2018
This episode features Rachel Depner (Palliative Care Institute, The Center for Hospice & Palliative Care, New York, USA). She reports on her study which aimed to (a) describe a prison-based end-of-life program utilizing inmate peer caregivers, (b) identify inmate-caregiver motivations for participation, and (c) analyze the role of building trust and meaningful relationships within the correctional end-of-life care setting.
SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast
SEPTEMBER 4, 2017
This episode features Claudia Virdun (Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Ultimo, NSW, Australia) who describes a study which aimed to gain a richer and deeper understanding of elements of end-of-life care that consumers consider most important within the hospital setting. The take home message is that patients and carers have been consistent in the factors that they consider important in end of life care.
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