Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

Data are reshaping the health care space, and hospice is no exception. Data has played a large role in the ability to gauge the impact of end-of life care. Hospice providers have needed a window into access and utilization, as well as how lawmakers are shaping policies around health care.

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Hospice Promise

MARCH 31, 2022

She fell in love with hospice social work during an internship at a local non-profit hospice while completing her undergraduate studies at Northern Arizona University. Once Ana graduated and moved back to Phoenix to work in Children’s Behavioral Health, she was quickly reminded of her love for Geriatrics and Hospice.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The experts settled on a range of key services, from more palliative care focused (e.g. end of life care and advance care planning) to more geriatrics focused (e.g. staff training in person centered care). It’s what happens in lots of different fields, including geriatrics. Welcome back.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

In the US, geriatrics “grew up” as an academic profession with a heavy research base. Clinical growth of geriatrics programs has lagged academic research, despite the rapid aging of the population. . Palliative care, in contrast, saw explosive growth in US hospitals. There’s end of life care needs.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

In this PONDER-ICU trial, we didn’t rely on palliative care specialists; we engaged bedside clinicians to have ICU communication and adhere to guidelines. Corita: We are looking at that now or just submitting a paper about not just the palliative care RN, but what are the differences? Were they embedded?

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

What the social workers are … Eric: Yeah. Beth: From a hospice standpoint, we obviously have the nursing support, social work chaplaincy. In fact, I worked for senior care options payer-provider in Massachusetts, where I am coupled end-of-life care from hospice back in 2009.

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GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

We have Sarah Nouri, who is a palliative care doc and researcher at UCSF. Alex: And we have Hillary Lum, who is a geriatrics and palliative care researcher at the University of Colorado. Van Scoy who is a pulmonary critical care advance care planning researcher at Penn State Hershey Medical Center in Pennsylvania.

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