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What Training Managers, Hospice, & Healthcare Facilities Miss about End of Life Care

Home Care Pulse

Learn More As managers working in hospice, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living, and even senior communities, part of our job is to educate our employees in end of life care. As mentioned above, most of our staff will not know there is a difference in care.

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Can I Include End of Life Care Wishes in My Will?

Seasons Hospice

Five wishes are similar to living wills in that they express an individual’s preferences for end-of-life care. In your living will, you should clearly state your preferences for medical treatment, including life-sustaining measures such as artificial ventilation and feeding tubes.

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‘Suncoast’ Film Points a Lens at Hospice Families’ Experience

Hospice News

The toll that caregiving has taken on both family members, and their relationship, is a major theme of the film, as is Doris’ desire to find ways to live her own life even as her brother’s ends. The Terry Schaivo story is not ours to tell, but many of those components affect end-of-life care every day.

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Former Mercy Health CEO: U.S. Needs to Embrace ‘Death Literacy’

Hospice News

An expansion of “death literacy” is necessary to improve end-of-life care in the United States, according to Michael Connelly, former CEO of Mercy Health. This is the subject of Connelly’s recent book, The Journey’s End: An Investigation of Death & Dying in America. It’s just postponing it.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

For a deeper dive, check out some of these other studies and resources we talked about in the podcast: The Influence of Nursing Home Culture on the Use of Feeding Tubes. The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. Rehabbed to Death. Ruth: Oh, thanks.

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Future Leaders Class of 2022: Shradha Aiyer, Vice President, Axxess

Hospice News

The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. They have so many more insights using technology from telehealth and telemedicine that’s feeding into that mobile device, which is so powerful for them.

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I think therefore I am? – On Losses

Palliverse

Staying in hospice for end-of-life care. To be able to wash and feed themselves would be a treat. A cancelled flight was the cause of my homesickness. Patients may be too unwell to go home or anywhere else. A trip outside to the garden can be in the too-hard basket.

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