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HAP Foundation, NORC: Structural Racism Impedes Access to Hospice, Palliative Care

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Black Americans are frequently denied access to hospice and palliative care due to structural racism, and many of those communities lack sufficient information to make end-of-life care decisions, new research has found. We haven’t been given … the respect even in death. I mean in short, even in death they don’t think that we matter.”

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‘Suncoast’ Film Points a Lens at Hospice Families’ Experience

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I think the movie just does a phenomenal job of just putting the audience and the viewers into those kinds of dynamics, to not try to explain hospice care and all what goes into hospice care, but to try to help people feel it,” Fleece told Hospice News. “I In the backdrop of these personal events, hangs the Schiavo case.

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A Silent Epidemic: Domestic Violence, Trauma Among Hospice Patients, Staff

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The stats on domestic violence and abuse are pretty overwhelming, and that’s in general populations,” Fisher told Hospice News. When we dig into our country’s most vulnerable serious and terminally ill patients, previous abuse is pretty prevalent and often not talked about, and that suffering can linger with unresolved emotional issues.

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World Hospice and Palliative Care Day Raises Global Awareness

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“That first gathering was a conclave of leaders in global health policy, such as the United Nations and the World Health Organization, among various other bodies,” Connor told Hospice News. “We We met because we recognized the fact that no one was really speaking up about palliative and hospice care in the policy arena.

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VNS Health Expands Hospice Education for Underserved Asian Americans

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It’s important that you have staff who speak their own language and dialects, because even just in the Chinese language there are so many different dialects,” Lin told Hospice News. There’s just so much we can do together for them.” So, it says a lot about how receptive the people are from this community.

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Hospices Ramping Up Caregiver Support

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McCaffrey is a retired clinical social worker, who most recently served patients at Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). We can still have that personal touch and that extra added level of support that focuses on quality.” The post Hospices Ramping Up Caregiver Support appeared first on Hospice News.

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Preventing Burnout Among Palliative Care Employees

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Clinicians face relatively high rates of burnout “due to the secondary trauma and emotional exhaustion that develops from working with death and dying daily,” Aprille Waldrop, social services manager for Florida-based Hospice of Health First told Palliative Care News. Nursing is not the same kind of work it used to be.