Larry is participating in the Caregiver Smile Summit We are pleased to welcome Larry Dawalt to the Caregiver Smile Summit. Larry Dawalt is Senior Director of Spiritual and Grief Care Services for Hospice & Palliative Care Charlotte Region. He has been in hospice care since 1993 and also worked ten...
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Kate Schutt is Participating in the Caregiver Smile Summit
Kate is participating in the Caregiver Smile Summit We are pleased to welcome Kate Schutt to the Caregiver Smile Summit. Kate is an award-winning songwriter, singer, guitarist, and producer whose voice NPR calls “glassily clear and glossily sweet.” Kate studied the influence of jazz on poetry at Harvard, and studied jazz...
Esther Pipoly is Participating in the Caregiver Smile Summit
Esther is participating in the Caregiver Smile Summit We are pleased to welcome Esther Pipoly to the Caregiver Smile Summit. LOLA’s Founder and Owner, Esther Cardenas Pipoly grew up in San Antonio, Texas and has first-hand knowledge about losing a loved one. Having lost her father and husband just 63...
Death Cafe Brings Life to the End of Life (Video)
Death Cafe Brings Life to the End of Life
Another Company Limits Its LTC Insurance Sales
Genworth Financial is taking several of its long-term care insurance options off the table. As of July 29, they stopped selling: lifetime coverage policies for people with family histories of Alzheimer’s and other chronic conditions; 10-pay policies, which lets beneficiaries pay 10 bigger payments for a paid-up policy; and 40%...
Patients with DNR Orders May Face Poorer Outcomes
In a new study appearing in the Archives of Surgery, those with do not resuscitate orders (DNR) were at least two times more likely to die soon after surgery. Researchers compared clinical information for 4,128 adults with DNR orders with a group of 4,128 individuals without DNR orders. They were...
End of Life Wishes Simplified with Patient / Physician Agreement
Courtesy Ohio State University Advance directives, which allow people to plan ahead for end-of-life care, can be too vague taccording to some experts. That is why a growing number of states are promoting a program to help guide physicians with a patient’s specific instructions. Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment, or...
The Importance of Talking about End-of-Life Issues
This guest post is contributed by Kitty Holman, who writes on the topics of nursing colleges.æ She welcomes your comments at her email Id: kitty.holman20@gmail.com. At some point, each and every one of us will face the end. Some of us are terrified of it. Others of us are comfortable...
End of Life Discussions Struck from Legislation
Last year, new Medicare guidelines were proposed that would allow doctors to get reimbursed for holding voluntary end-of-life consultations with patients during annual medical checkups. It would have given specific directions to doctors on what they should tell patients, including discussion of palliative care, hospice and other services. In early...
End-of-life Care Could Depend on Physician’s Religion
A British suggests that the religious beliefs of your physician could impact the care you receive at the end of life. Researchers at Queen Mary University of London surveyed more than 3,700 United Kingdom physicians about their religious views, ethnicity and the care they give to dying patients. Those who...