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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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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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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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Hospice and Nonhospice Nursing Home Residents
Journal of Palliative Medicine, 2003To compare hospice residents in nursing homes with residents who are noted as end-stage, but not in hospice programs.Descriptive comparison of the outcomes reported on Minimum Data Set (MDS) for all residents admitted to Missouri nursing homes in 1999.Nursing homes.Residents of nursing homes designated as either hospice or end-stage on admission MDS ...
Debra, Parker-Oliver +4 more
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Home care and hospice home care
2015This chapter discusses home care as an environment that provides unique opportunities to promote palliative care for patients and families throughout their illnesses. The chapter gives background information on what home care is, its historical roots, the types of providers available to give services, the regulatory policies controlling its use ...
Paula Milone-Nuzzo +2 more
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Continuous Care: A Home Hospice Benefit
Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, 2013Hospice professionals are aware of the difficult transition that occurs when patients and their loved ones arrive at the end stages of metastatic cancer and desire to reach the end of life in their home. However, the actual practice of caring for someone who is dying at home requires specific skills and support from those trained in end-of-life care.
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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 ...
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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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Section on Hospice and Palliative Medicine Program, 2021
Grace Knowles +2 more
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Grace Knowles +2 more
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2002
Abstract You may have a strong feeling from the outset about where you would like to be cared for, particularly towards the end. Or you may never have thought about it, or realized that you might have a choice. At the beginning of a terminal illness most patients say that they would prefer to die at home rather than in hospital.
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Abstract You may have a strong feeling from the outset about where you would like to be cared for, particularly towards the end. Or you may never have thought about it, or realized that you might have a choice. At the beginning of a terminal illness most patients say that they would prefer to die at home rather than in hospital.
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