Palliative telecare team aids QOL, health status for chronic conditions
Jan 23, 2024
The findings were for veterans with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart failure or interstitial lung disease.
Ordering palliative care consult by default increases rate of consultation
Jan 22, 2024
The findings were seen in older hospitalized patients with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, dementia or kidney failure.
Social work staffing may increase access, use of palliative care
Jan 05, 2023
An intervention to increase social work staffing on primary care teams serving rural veterans was tied to an increased use of palliative care following hospitalization.
Providing palliative care to wider group of people, including assisted living residents, gains bipartisan...
By
Kimberly Bonvissuto
Jun 24, 2022
A demonstration project to deliver palliative care no matter where an individual lives — including in assisted living communities — and earlier in the disease process has gained bipartisan support.
How senior living communities can address the increasing need for hospice care
By
Elizabeth Klint
Jan 31, 2022
Hospice / palliative medicine still is a relatively new specialty, so it’s important that it becomes more widely understood and available across the country, especially in senior living communities and...
Key congressional committee members back palliative care demonstration model
By
Diane Eastabrook
Sep 24, 2021
The prospect of a palliative care demonstration model got a big boost this week from members of the House Ways and Means Committee.
Home care providers, do physicians see your value? Think again
By
Dave Hochanadel
Sep 01, 2021
Home-based senior care providers face a significant problem when it comes to differentiation in the eyes of referring physicians.