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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Infographic – The Importance of Talking About End-of-Life Care
The Importance of Talking about End-of-Life Care – from VITAS – An infographic by the team at The Importance of Talking about End-of-Life Care – from VITAS
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...
Quality of Life at End of Life Can Be Aided by Palliative Care
Some terminally ill patients who receive palliative care live longer and with a better quality of life than those who receive standard medical care, a new report suggests. Researchers at Harvard Medical School evaluated the life expectancy and quality of life of roughly 150 patients with terminal lung cancers. They...
Doctors Don’t Talk About End of Life Care
The January 11 online edition of Cancer reveals that there is general lack of communication between physicians and terminally ill patients regarding end of life care. As reported in Health Day, a national sample of almost 4,100 physicians who treat cancer patients was taken. Physicians were given a hypothetical example...
End of Life Care Less Costly When Physicians Communicate
In a follow up to yesterdayÛªs guest post about end of life care and the engagement of health care providers comes this. The March 9 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine reports that patients with advanced cancer who discuss end-of-life care with their physicians appear to have lower health care...