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Choosing Between Hospice Care & Palliative Care: An In-depth Look at Your Options
Recently I wrote an article for family members of patients who could benefit from hospice care and/or palliative care, in which I discussed the factors that physicians must consider in referring hospice or pal... Read entire article »
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Hospice Care: Living with Terminal Illness
Patients and their families are usually overwhelmed when faced with the diagnosis of terminal illness. Many patients are symptom-free until an illness or hospitalization reveals they have a life-limiting condit... Read entire article »
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Palliative & Hospice Care Explained: What It Is, What to Expect, How to Pay For it & How to Find It
What It Is
To palliate means to ease discomfort by treating symptoms of an illness. Palliative care promotes the patient's comfort by addressing any and all issues causing physical or emotional pain or sufferin... Read entire article »
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Living with Dementia: How Hospice Care Can Help
What is dementia? And perhaps just as importantly, what isn’t it? In the coming months, I’ll be writing a series of articles on dementia to address the concerns of caregivers and family members who ... Read entire article »
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How to Choose Hospice Care
Determining the appropriate hospice care you or a loved one requires at end-of-life may seem like a daunting task to take on during an already difficult time. In a recent blog describing hospice and palliative ... Read entire article »
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Eligibility for Hospice
Determining Hospice Eligibility for Dementia
How do you know if your loved one is eligible to receive hospice services? How does a physician make a prognosis of six months or less for a patient? Let’s take a look at the criteria that hospice and med... Read entire article »
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Role of Hospice
The Importance of Partnering with Physicians in End of Life Care
The Physician’s Role
The decision to enroll in hospice services can be difficult for patients and families, and may reflect a reluctance to accept a terminal diagnosis. The physician pays a central role i... Read entire article »
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Hospice: The 4 Levels of Care
There are four levels of care provided by hospices in the United States. Every patient receiving hospice services will be on one of these four levels. A hospice patient can move from one level to another and ba... Read entire article »
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Living with Dementia: How Hospice Care Can Help
What is dementia? And perhaps just as importantly, what isn’t it? In the coming months, I’ll be writing a series of articles on dementia to address the concerns of caregivers and family members who ... Read entire article »
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The Role of Hospice Care in Pain Management
A major fear people have of dying is that they’ll be in pain. Hospice eases that fear by providing palliative care with an emphasis on pain control. The main objective is to relieve symptoms that interfer... Read entire article »
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Hospice: Serving the Whole Unit—Patient, Family, Friends and Physicians
Hospice is a service that serves not only the patient, but also their loved ones. In hospice care, we think of the patient, the family and the caregiver as being part of a single unit. The patient’s illne... Read entire article »
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Artificial Hydration & Nutrition
Artificial Hydration & Nutrition in Advanced Alzheimer's
In my conversations with families of patients with Alzheimer’s disease, they often have anxiety over withholding or withdrawing artificial hydration and nutrition. What should be done when a patient refus... Read entire article »
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