My mom paid a painful price for not completing an advance directive about her preferences for end-of-life medical care. She was an intelligent and organized woman who had everything in her and my dad’s life planned out and written down. She even drafted her own obituary. Ironically, she never discussed her end-of-life care goals with
A recent study examined the impact of early palliative care (EPC) on quality of life for patients with advanced cancer. The researchers wished to determine the effectiveness of EPC for the various advanced cancer demographic groups, such as age and gender. The investigators, based at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, compared patients
Bill Brunstad was interested in becoming a hospice volunteer for years. He read a book about the highs and lows of working on the front lines. He even took a class offered by HSHS St. Joseph’s Hospital’s Hospice team. But seeing his friend Jim Dimock in the grocery store gave him added incentive. Dimock told
Golden LivingCenter-Columbus are joining other hospice care organizations across the nation in celebrating National Hospice and Palliative Care Month during November. The holiday recognizes the compassion and dedication of the caregivers who provide these important services. This year’s theme is Hospice. Helps. Everyone. With this theme, we are reminded of how hospice helps patients and
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services(CMS) has announced that Medicare will begin paying physicians and other practitioners to discuss advance care planning, effective Jan. 1, 2016. Advance care planning marks a critical step forward in ensuring that care delivery aligns with individual goals, values and preferences, resulting in better care, higher patient and family satisfaction
Quebec is investing an additional $10-million a year to improve palliative care. One measure that will kick in next April will see the families of caregivers receive $1,000 to help look after their loved ones. Currently, 11 per cent of Quebecers who have chronic diseases such as cancer die at home surrounded by their loved
It’s Wednesday afternoon at Hospice Atlanta Center, and nurse Wendy Gleason works from a desk covered in jolly Disney paraphernalia, her Mickey Mouse earrings sparkling. Above her desk, a Walt Disney quote: “If you can dream it, you can do it.” Across the hall, inside an elegant library, a volunteer plays a beautifulPie Jesu on
Six years ago, a proposal to compensate physicians for talking to patients about their treatment in their last days was stripped from the Affordable Care Act after critics made dark predictions about “death panels” and government rationing of care to senior citizens. Last week, with little fanfare, the federal government announced that as of Jan.
Millions of Americans suffering from serious illness lack access to care that could improve their quality of life by relieving pain and other symptoms, a study finds. Access to so-called palliative care is greatest in the New England, Pacific and mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S., researchers report in the Journal of Palliative Medicine. Far fewer
The man had written an advance directive four years ago, before his advancing dementia had made communication difficult. He had been very specific. In case of a life-threatening condition, “he wanted comfort care only, no heroics,” said Dr. Rebecca Aslakson, a critical care anesthesiologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. But last month an uncontrollable
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