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How Long Can You Be in Palliative Care?

Seasons Hospice

While it may be used in conjunction with curative treatment plans to help manage symptoms or side effects of treatments, it is not intended to cure an illness. Advanced Directives Advanced directives , sometimes referred to as living wills, are documents that provide direction for end-of-life care decisions.

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Pediatric Hospice Care

Shining Light Hospice

Instead, it’s about shifting the focus from curative treatments to comfort and quality of life. Hospice care can be provided concurrently with curative or life-prolonging treatments in pediatric patients, an approach known as palliative care. Choosing pediatric hospice care is an intensely personal decision.

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Confronting Stigma From Opioid Use Disorder in Cancer Care

Pallimed

Ie, is dying in 2 months from untreated cancer alongside suboptimally treated OUD an acceptable alternative to dying in 1 year from properly treated cancer alongside suboptimally treated OUD (for a patient who wants cancer treatment)? Patients with SUD often require multiple engagements with different treatments before achieving remission.

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Palace of Care – You Are All On My Side

Palliverse

In the past week she had a major fall, resulting in life-threatening injuries. She made me promise that no life prolonging treatments would be given to her, as she did not want her existence extended. Photo by Sorin Gheorghita on Unsplash. It was minor slips with minor injuries, then moderate trips with moderate injuries.

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

GeriPal

Ruth: There were some people who got comfort palliative care in the nursing home at end of life. We start off discussing the findings of Ruth Palan Lopez’s publication in JAMA IM on the ADVANCE study. The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Rehabbed to Death. Transcript. Joan: Thanks.

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Storytelling in Medicine: A Podcast with Liz Salmi, Anne Kelly, and Preeti Malani

GeriPal

But from her piece, one of the key aspects from my perspective in reading it is that here we have hospice and palliative care social worker, deeply committed to the field, deeply committed to improving quality of life for people near the end of life. We got somebody in between us ,too. Alex: Yeah, we have three people in studio.