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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 in...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...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...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....Read entire article »
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