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Hospice Care versus Home Health Care

Shining Light Hospice

Nurses aides can assist with activities of daily living such as toileting, bathing, and feeding. Spiritual support is provided by the Hospice chaplain and social workers are also available. Hospice care includes comprehensive grief and bereavement support services for patients and their families.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. And it might include spiritual needs such as grief, despair, anger, et cetera, as well as resources that they have to bring to bear.

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Episode 38: LWH Q&A #1

Living With Hospice

Don't wake them up to feed them or give them water or take medicine, just let them sleep, the body's doing what it's supposed to do. Important point here. I know that can be hard sometimes to watch. And we're so used to making sure that our loved one gets their meds and their food and the toileting and washing and everything on time.

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Miscommunication in Medicine: A podcast with Shunichi Nakagawa, Abby Rosenberg and Don Sullivan

GeriPal

Because, if anybody hasn’t seen it, you’ve got a great Twitter feed that gives tons of pearls on palliative care and a lot on communication. Speaking of pearls, should we move to Shunichi’s Twitter feed? Alex: Shunichi, your Twitter feed is like haiku. What motivated you to dive into this? That’s okay.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

GeriPal

So, she was in a pathetic stage and she had no way of coming and seeing the mother because she had to feed the children from her earnings. And her daughter can’t come visit her because she doesn’t have money for bus fare and her husband’s an alcoholic, demanding money from her and she has to feed her own children.

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Comics and Humor in Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nathan Gray

GeriPal

However if you want to take a deeper dive, check out his website “ The Ink Vessel ” or his amazing twitter feed which has a lot of his work in it. But luckily, Anne Kelly, our social worker, was in the room with me and said the magic thing that just was the right thing to say. Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast.