Source: NPR (audio file attached to this post at the bottom)
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/09/18/349585612/terminally-ill-but-constantly-hospitalized
HCF Admin Note: The attached audio file is excellent and explains the misconceptions of end
Read more…The Institute of Medicine just released a comprehensive report on Dying in America: Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences Near the End of Life.
For patients and their loved ones, no care decisions are more profound than those made
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Admin Note: Our original announcement of the subject book on 9/8/14 turned out to be premature. iTunes needed to finish approving the new book before its release. It is now approved and available as described below.
We have also attached a flyer f
Read more…More Inspections of Medicare Hospice Programs Demanded by New House Bill
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization backs bi-partisan bill
Aug. 5, 2014 – Just before the House of Representatives slammed the door shut to go on their August rece
Fascinating article in our Cultural Diversity Group:
Greg Schneider
Founder & President, HVA
HCF Creator
Link to article on TED: Click here
The funerals I’ve attended have all been very much the same. Relatives and friends arrive in all black and take seats in the church or synagogue pews for a somber ceremony where prayers are said, memories are shared
Here is link to an interesting TED video on rituals. In Tana Toraja, weddings and births aren’t the social gatherings that knit society together. In this part of Indonesia, big, raucous funerals form the center of social life. Anthropologist Kelli Sw
Read more…This excellent blog post from the Care Givers website reflects upon support caregivers need up to and including a vigil with their loved one. In this context the discussion describes limitations of hospice in certain caregiving settings.
Some pertine
Read more…This excellent blog post from the Care Givers website reflects upon support caregivers need up to and including a vigil with their loved one. In this context the discussion describes limitations of hospice in certain caregiving settings.
Some pertine
Read more…Music can convey the feelings of grief quite effectively...here's a link to YouTube video of the Gary Moore song which really conveys the message deeply...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h7ZIJwGxJA
Here are the lyrics:
The Midnight Blues
It's the
Read more…While familiar with Advance Directives and choices, had no idea what a major study found about what the physician's perspective is on these choices. This audio clip has interviews with some physicians and is useful information to consider when makin
Read more…While familiar with Advance Directives and choices, had no idea what a major study found about what the physician's perspective is on these choices. This audio clip has interviews with some physicians and is useful information to consider when makin
Read more…The Oscar nominated prison hospice documentary to air on HBO Documentary Channel, next Monday, 3/31/14.
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall is a moving cinema verité documentary that breaks through the walls of one of Americas oldest
Read more…March 19 --Medicare hospice patients will have access to palliative care, as well as care aimed
March 19 --Medicare hospice patients will have access to palliative care, as well as care aimed
Recent news post illustrates measures being taken to monitor hospice providers. The U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois on Jan. 27 accused Seth Gillman, an attorney and part owner of Passages Hospice LLC, of federal health care fraud,
Read more…Grace Before Dying is a photographic exhibition by Lori Waselchuk about hospice in prisons.
"Lori Waselchuk's vision finds the humane in the broadest landscape or interior view while her passion provides us all with the chance to experience it in clo
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