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Key Palliative Care Trends to Watch in 2024

Hospice News

Today, many palliative programs are supported by philanthropic donations or treated as a loss leader that can feed referrals to other services like hospice care. Palliative care is an evolving field. Rising demand In 2024, demand will continue to rise, driven by a number of factors.

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Payers to CMMI: We Need a Standardized Definition for Palliative Care

Hospice News

This is somebody who can help with being the eyes and ears in the home — delivering activities of daily living, supporting people who are really unable to do basic things like bathing, dressing or feeding. The talk with CMMI was just the “tip of the iceberg” on sustainable support for palliative care, Fields told Hospice News.

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HSPN Palliative Care: Fireside Chat with Contessa and Netsmart

Hospice News

This article is based on a discussion with Anthony Spano, Director of Client Development at Netsmart and Nikki Davis, Vice President of Palliative Care Programs at Contessa Health. The conversation took place on April 20, 2023, during the Hospice News Palliative Care Conference. The article below has been edited for length and clarity.

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

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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. Transcript. Bring it on.

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

Hospice News

It’s going into an intensive care unit and getting feeding tubes and ventilators and all this stuff that isn’t going to change anything. This is the subject of Connelly’s recent book, The Journey’s End: An Investigation of Death & Dying in America. But they don’t always understand what that means.

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Some Families May Not Access Hospice Without Caregiver Support

Hospice News

The program includes training in medical caregiving aspects such as oxygen application, tube feeding, tracheostomy care and nonmedical needs such meal preparation, bathing, housekeeping and incontinence care. founders of Mettle Health. The California-based company provides palliative care and offers caregiver support group series.

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

Hospice News

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. 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.

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