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Access to Nursing Home Hospice: Perspectives of Nursing Home and Hospice Administrators
Journal of Palliative Medicine, 2005Hospice improves the quality of end of life care in nursing homes but serves less than 10% of dying residents. For residents to elect hospice, nursing homes must first contract for these services. We surveyed nursing home and hospice administrators to describe facilitators and barriers to hospice in nursing homes, and to test whether nursing home ...
Laura C, Hanson +2 more
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Nursing Home Experience with Hospice
Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 2002Much has been written regarding the problems of terminally ill people residing in nursing homes. Hospice care is one option these facilities have to assist in managing dying patients. The purpose of the study was to explore the knowledge base, experience, and attitudes of nursing home management with and toward hospice care.A descriptive study that ...
Debra, Parker-Oliver, Denise, Bickel
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Factors Associated With Home-Hospice Utilization
Home Healthcare Now, 2021Utilization of hospice for end-of-life care is known to be lower among racial and ethnic minority groups than among White populations when controlling for other socioeconomic factors. Certain patient, provider, and community characteristics may influence home-hospice use.
Zainab Toteh, Osakwe +4 more
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Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 1991
Home hospice care, which helps patients with terminal illnesses remain at home, is becoming more common and accepted in the United States. The Medicare hospice benefit reimburses hospices for the care of elderly patients. The goal of hospices is to help the patient and family remain in control of the dying process as much as possible.
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Home hospice care, which helps patients with terminal illnesses remain at home, is becoming more common and accepted in the United States. The Medicare hospice benefit reimburses hospices for the care of elderly patients. The goal of hospices is to help the patient and family remain in control of the dying process as much as possible.
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Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing, 2021
The term social model hospice first appeared late in the 20th century as a label for a complementary model to medical hospice care. Two decades later, the term is inconsistently defined and used by scholars, health care providers, public consumers, and those within the movement.
Helen Mavis, Farrar +3 more
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The term social model hospice first appeared late in the 20th century as a label for a complementary model to medical hospice care. Two decades later, the term is inconsistently defined and used by scholars, health care providers, public consumers, and those within the movement.
Helen Mavis, Farrar +3 more
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Journal of Health & Social Policy, 1999
In this article a descriptive analysis of nursing homes with special care hospice units is provided. These are compared to nursing homes with other special care units and to nursing homes without any special care units. An analysis of the determinants of nursing homes with special care hospice units is also provided. Factors such as ownership, staffing
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In this article a descriptive analysis of nursing homes with special care hospice units is provided. These are compared to nursing homes with other special care units and to nursing homes without any special care units. An analysis of the determinants of nursing homes with special care hospice units is also provided. Factors such as ownership, staffing
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Home Healthcare Now, 2018
The Pacific Islands Geriatric Education Center of the University of Hawaii conducted situational assessments of caregivers, older adults, and healthcare professionals in the Republic of Palau. The findings revealed an urgent need for a solution to the identified crisis of an aging population, increasing chronic diseases and their corresponding impact ...
Ritabelle, Fernandes +2 more
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The Pacific Islands Geriatric Education Center of the University of Hawaii conducted situational assessments of caregivers, older adults, and healthcare professionals in the Republic of Palau. The findings revealed an urgent need for a solution to the identified crisis of an aging population, increasing chronic diseases and their corresponding impact ...
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Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy, 2018
In December 2017, my mother was diagnosed with an end-stage pancreatic cancer. In the following weeks, she had to be taken to the emergency room frequently due to worsening infections, electrolyte imbalance, and vertigo, which often led to delirium. The doctors treating her were well qualified but lacked education and training about palliative and end ...
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In December 2017, my mother was diagnosed with an end-stage pancreatic cancer. In the following weeks, she had to be taken to the emergency room frequently due to worsening infections, electrolyte imbalance, and vertigo, which often led to delirium. The doctors treating her were well qualified but lacked education and training about palliative and end ...
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Unique experiences in hospice home care
American Journal of Hospice Care, 1985Hospice care is a multidimensional approach to care of terminally ill patients and their families. This care can be given by a variety of persons, in a variety of ways, and paid for by a variety of mechanisms. Hospices are on the brink of moving from infancy into maturity.
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