Minority Nurse
MARCH 4, 2024
In the vast and varied landscape of healthcare careers, long-term care is sometimes overlooked. What is Long-term Care? Long-term care (LTC) refers to a range of services to meet a person’s health or personal care needs for an extended period.
Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
have introduced a bill that would establish a national committee to study long-term care in the United States. . The bill, called the Supporting Our Seniors Act, would create a national advisory commission that would study the state of long term care and regularly report its findings to Congress.
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Hospice News
APRIL 5, 2023
“In researching this issue for members of LeadingAge, we were not able to identify any published studies that prescribing controlled medications for hospice or residents in long-term care patients is a major source of the overprescribing in our country.”
Hospice News
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
The biggest need is how we appropriately transition people’s care outside of the hospital setting. It’s bringing palliative medicine consults outside of the hospital and into people’s homes, into long-term care centers and cancer or heart failure clinics. Our resources are limited.
Hospice News
AUGUST 9, 2023
Fellow inmate caregivers provide much of the care and support that palliative care patients receive in prison settings, the Penn State researchers Susan Loeb and Rachel Wikon found in a data analysis report published in the American Journal of Nursing. A bill was approved in 2021 that issued $7.2
SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care podcast
MARCH 13, 2020
This episode features Danni Collingridge Moore (International Observatory on End of Life Care, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK). The provision and quality of palliative care delivered in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) varies and does not always meet the needs of the residents.
Daily Nurse
APRIL 8, 2024
No, I’ve done long-term care for most of my nursing career. I became familiar with many disease processes people face at the end of life. In long-term care, I did a lot of end-of-life care, even though patients weren’t necessarily in hospice.
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