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Improving Care at the End of Life [PDF]

, 2011
Reviews RWJF's investments in improving end-of-life care, impact on the field, and lessons learned, including the need to coordinate objectives, integrate strategies, tie strategies to policy changes and incentives, and link communications and ...
Abby Spector, Elizabeth Thompson, Patricia Patrizi   +2 more
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Characteristics of the Long‐Term Care Data Cooperative: A New Resource for Research on Outcomes in Long‐Term Care

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The long‐term care (LTC) Data Cooperative is a National Institute on Aging‐funded data resource that links skilled nursing facility (SNF) electronic health record (EHR) data with Medicare and Medicaid claims for use in comparative effectiveness and interventional research.
Stephanie M. Kissam, Terry Hawk, Amy Recker, Catherine Rogers Murray, Dustin Burns, David D. Dore, David R. Gifford, Vincent Mor, Elizabeth M. White   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Experiences of hospice staff beyond the frontlines during COVID-19: A qualitative secondary analysis study

Palliative Care and Social Practice
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic presented different challenges and work pressures for hospice staff. Staff who continued to work during the emergency public health period had to redefine not only their norms at work, but also the norms of their home ...
Thanga Harini Sundaramoorthy, John I. MacArtney, Abi Eccles   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Beds for Boomers: Will California's Supply of Services Meet Senior Demand? [PDF]

, 2015
California is home to the largest population of seniors in the country; in 2013, 4.8 million Californians, nearly 13% of the state's population, were age 65 and older.

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The Effect of an Early Cognitive Intervention on Global Cognition in Older Hospitalized Adults With Delirium

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Delirium afflicts 17% of older emergency department (ED) patients and 25% of older hospitalized patients. This form of acute brain failure is associated with accelerated cognitive decline. We conducted a randomized controlled trial to determine whether early cognitive intervention improved 4‐month global cognition in older ED ...
Jin H. Han, James C. Jackson, Eduard E. Vasilevskis, Guanchao Wang, Cathy A. Jenkins, Mariu C. Duggan, N. Zeynep Kubilay, Jordan Thompson, Kelly M. Moser, Patsy T. Bryant, Karen F. Miller, Jesse O. Wrenn, John F. Schnelle, Robert S. Dittus, E. Wesley Ely, Sandra Simmons   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hospice home care.

The West Indian medical journal, 1992
This has turned out to be a remarkable adventure into the human condition. It has been most rewarding to see that it is quite possible to overcome the most difficult clinical situations by knowledge, patience and the sort of natural sympathy which should be part of the personality of every physician.
openaire   +1 more source

End‐of‐Life Loneliness, Social Isolation, and Symptom Burden: A Nationally‐Representative Study

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Loneliness (subjective feeling of lacking connection) and social isolation (objective deficit in number of relationships or contact with others) are common at the end‐of‐life and can be detrimental to quality of life. Investigating the association between symptoms and end‐of‐life loneliness and social isolation could help inform ...
Mara Rosenberg, Irena Cenzer, Alexander K. Smith, Ashwin A. Kotwal   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Differences in end-of-life care patterns between types of hospice used for cancer patients: a retrospective cohort study

BMC Palliative Care
Background In response to the rapid aging population and increasing number of cancer patients, discussions on dignified end-of-life (EoL) decisions are active around the world.
Il Yun, Eun-Cheol Park, Chung Mo Nam, Jaeyong Shin, Suk-Yong Jang, Sung-In Jang   +5 more
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Indigenous practice of grief counseling for cancer bereaved from the perspective of big health humanities

Huli yanjiu, 2023
ObjectiveBased on the practice of the hospice （hospice care） project of the Li Ka Shing Foundation in Hong Kong，this paper reflects on the experience of grief counseling at home and abroad， introduces a more localized humanistic perspective on health，and
YAO Shangman, ZHAO Duling, SI Jiaxin, CUI Yu, WANG Zhizhong, DUAN Zhiguang   +5 more
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Bridging the Gap Between the ED and Home: The Community Paramedic‐Led Transitions Intervention for Persons Living With Dementia

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT More than 6 million persons living with dementia (PLWD) in the United States rely on the emergency department (ED) for unscheduled care, with up to half discharged home after treatment. The ED‐to‐home transition poses significant challenges for PLWD and their care partners (referred to as “dyads”), contributing to high rates of ED revisits and
Meghan Jenkins Morales, Stephanie Ricketts, Corita R. Grudzen, Abraham A. Brody, Joshua Chodosh, Keith Goldfeld, Manish N. Shah, ED‐LEAD Investigators, Lauren Abbate, Rebecca Anthopolos, Alicia Arbaje, Fernanda Bellolio, Jonathan Berkowitz, Andrea Blome, Erik Jonathan Blutinger, Justin Kenneth Brooten, Reed Caldwell, Christopher Caspers, Nathaniel Chin, Edward Cisek, Valerie Cotter, Jeremy Thomas Cushman, Dan David, Allison L. Ducharme‐Smith, Scott Dresden, Mary Ellen Dupont, Marie Carmelle Elie, Andra Farcas, Bucky Ferozan, Jori Fleisher, Nicholas Genes, Cameron Gettel, Andrea Gilmore‐Bykovski, Scott Goldberg, Elizabeth Goldberg, Satheesh Gunaga, Heather Heaton, Courtney Jones, Maura Kennedy, Timmy Li, Joseph Miller, Brian Mittman, Kei Ouchi, Brian W. Patterson, Jennifer Portz, Alex Quinones, Ashley Shreves, Michelle Simpson, Silas Smith, Payal Sud, Joe Suyama, Scotty Thomas, Victoria Vaughan Dickson, Ian Wittman, Nancy Wood   +54 more
wiley   +1 more source