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Are Palliative Care Teams The Answer Caregivers Need?
If you’re a caregiver, you know how tough it can be to watch your loved one face a serious illness. You often experience just as much […]
How ‘Before I Die’ Walls Boost Palliative Care
Palliative care appears to be near a tipping point, both due to increasing demand and the ways in which home health agencies and other health care providers are figuring out how to offer and pay fo…
The surprising role for lifestyle medicine in palliative care
Lifestyle interventions won’t be for everyone. It won’t treat or reverse disease in every patient, as it did for Dr. Greger’s grandmother. But palliative clinicians who educate themselves to prescribe lifestyle medicine can empower patients with the ability to change behaviors that make themselves feel better and, hopefully, add years to their lives.
Antipsychotics in the elderly: Sometimes it's excellent palliative care
Using antipsychotics in a demented person suffering delirium is a prime example of palliative care.
Predictive Analytics Tool Increases Palliative Care Consultations
Palliative Connect, a predictive analytics-driven tool developed by researchers at Penn Medicine, was effective in increasing palliative care consultations for patients with serious illness.
Fewer ER visits with palliative care, study finds
A study that included 250 elderly patients in long-term care facilities found palliative care services were associated with a reduced need for emergency care, according to researchers at the Hebrew Rehabilitation Center and the Institute for Aging Research. "This study showed a decrease in emergency room visits for palliative care patients, avoiding an often frightening event for patients and families, while decreasing the high cost of…
When medical home models include palliative care, quality improves |
This combination of a medical home — a coordinated and family-centric model of care — and palliative care delivered in in the home setting includes advanced care planning, symptom management, as well as care for spiritual, social or psychological needs.
Caregivers: Supporting And Learning From Our Most Valuable Human Resource
Whether standing next to a patient receiving a difficult diagnosis or spending countless hours by a hospital sickbed, these vigilant caregivers are often mistakenly seen by doctors and other healthcare workers as simply “the family.” But they are so much more.
Do you know the benefits palliative care can offer your loved ones?
Pappus House, located in York, is a house which provides end-of-life care for dying patients.
What Do People REALLY Know About Long-Term Care?
A survey finds that many Americans seem to know very little about long-term care costs.
Caring for grandchildren linked with surprising health benefit
Older adults who look after their grandchildren might also be doing themselves a favor, new research suggests
How caregivers combat helplessness and aid dementia hospice patients
Hospice’s purpose, at least one of them, is to ease a dying patient’s pain at the end of life and improve the quality of that life. But what’s to be done when a dementia patient in her waning days can’t communicate her pain or help identify the cause? Or resists taking medications?
Big Raises For Many Home Care Workers Won’t Necessarily Help Senior Citizens
A $15 minimum wage will almost double what many home care workers are paid but won’t solve other problems.
Why the Arts Are Key to Dementia Care
The arts are a form of communication that can engage the intuition and imagination of someone with dementia.
What Are We Doing to Support our Valuable Family Caregivers?
About 40 million people in America care for a family member, neighbor or friend who has limitations in everyday activities. We call these people “family caregivers.” Most of them juggle work and family caregiving responsibilities, which can seriously affect their physical and emotional health. Together, this invisible workforce provides 37 billion hours of care, which the AARP Public Policy Institute values at $470 billion. That’s 470…
How In-Home Care Providers Can Prevent Hypothermia in Seniors
Visiting Angels has put together a short guide that in-home care providers can use to spot signs of and prevent hypothermia in seniors.
Your elderly parent is home from the hospital. What happens next?
Many families step up to give care, but the demands on them get little attention.
Why We Need to Pour Creativity Into Elder Care
The arts are a powerful tool to improve the quality of life of older adults
Inspiring Self-Care: Self-Care Tips for Family Caregivers
Home Instead offers self-care tips for family caregivers caring for aging loved ones.
