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Black Communities Face Barriers to Advance Care Planning

Hospice News

Conversations that incorporate religious and spiritual values around end-of-life care options and goals of care could go a long way towards improving understanding and utilization, Bullock stated. The post Black Communities Face Barriers to Advance Care Planning appeared first on Hospice News.

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Providing Hospice Cares in a Facility during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Quarantine

Hospice 101

The basic hospice belief and philosophy is to provide end of life cares encompassing the Mind, the Body, and the Spirit. In order for you to continue to provide the same, high passionate, gentle, end of life cares for your hospice patients, you now also need to protect yourself more than you did before.

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Career Spotlight: Fighting for justice for older people and those with dementia for 50+ years

The Nurse Break

Rewards in end of life care… While working in a nursing home the ambos were attempting to carry a gentleman up the stairs. I saw an advertisement in a magazine with a peg on a woman’s nose, took it to him and said he had started a new trend. This was a real and unexpected reward for me.

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Hospice in Prison Part 2: An interview with the Pastoral Care Workers

GeriPal

But the other was she read an article about our hospice in the May of 2018 New York Times magazine. And I’ve always looked to try to help people spiritually to better themselves through spirituality, and who more needs help than in the end of life care. So that’s when I jumped into this all the way.

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S3 Ep.1 : How Training Has Changed Over the Last 20 Years, With New Hosts Linda Leekley and Amanda Sternklar

Home Care Pulse

Don’t use the, you know, nursing magazine articles or, or. And that’s what attracts them to, to the, the work, or they have an interest in a particular aspect of care, such as Alzheimer’s disease or end of life care. You know, and I just thought there’s gotta be a better way.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Michele: Yeah, so in May of 2018, there was an article by Suleika Jaouad in the New York Times Magazine, and they spent about two weeks in our hospice with us learning about the work that’s done. And people are getting life sentences. Eric: Wait, so Bonnie Raitt sang a song about hospice in prison?

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Conscientous Provision of MAID and Abortion: Robert Brody, Lori Freedman, Mara Buchbinder

GeriPal

She’s a medical anthropologist with an interest in culture of end of life care, among other things, and she has a book that is out called Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America. And he surveyed all the nurses who subscribed to nursing, I think it was like Nursing Magazine or something, or journal.

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