The Guardian

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The UK’s network of independent, mainly voluntary-run palliative care providers said hospices were experiencing a perfect storm of soaring costs and rising demand just as revenues from traditional public fundraising methods are collapsing.

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Social Work Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The veterans, whose average age was about 65 and all of whom had been recently hospitalized, were found to be 95% more likely to access palliative and hospice care if they were connected to a social worker through their primary care physician.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 5, 2023

This edition includes updated policy statements on a wide range of topics, including rural social work, voter rights and participation, mental health, hospice care, juvenile justice, foster care and adoption, and the rights of indigenous peoples.

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Relias

AUGUST 15, 2022

But home health leaders have questioned the CMS behavioral adjustment methodology, and National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC) President William Dombi called the change “fatally flawed” in a Home Health Care News article. A similar cap was proposed earlier for hospice. All-Payer Policy for Home Health Quality Reporting.

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Relias

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Dombi, president of the National Association for Home Care and Hospice, said the increase portrays a rosier picture than reality. While this seems like a treat, William A.

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Relias

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Strengthening your business may require staff to specialize in hospice and palliative care or respiratory therapy, for example, if demand for those services increases. Hospice care. Appropriate training will allow clinicians more flexibility to care for additional comorbidities among home health clients. Respiratory therapy.

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Social Work Blog

MARCH 2, 2023

This edition includes updated policy statements on a wide range of topics, including rural social work, voter rights and participation, mental health, hospice care, juvenile justice, foster care and adoption, and the rights of indigenous peoples.

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Relias

APRIL 10, 2025

These include (but are not limited to): Ambulatory surgical centers Community mental health centers Critical access hospitals Federally qualified health centers Home health agencies Hospices Hospitals Intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities Inpatient psychiatric facilities Long-term care facilities and nursing homes (..)

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Relias

APRIL 13, 2023

Understanding how to communicate effectively with people with dementia is vital for healthcare professionals in various settings, including home care, assisted living facilities, hospitals, and hospices. As brain function degenerates, people with dementia gradually face difficulties finding words and organizing them into logical sentences.

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Relias

APRIL 13, 2023

Understanding how to communicate effectively with people with dementia is vital for healthcare professionals in various settings, including home care, assisted living facilities, hospitals, and hospices. As brain function degenerates, people with dementia gradually face difficulties finding words and organizing them into logical sentences.

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Relias

JULY 12, 2022

Leaders in assisted living, skilled nursing, home health, rehab therapy, wound care, and hospice know you can’t hire all the skills your organization will need tomorrow and in the future. The speed of change in healthcare requires post-acute care organizations to take a different approach to job preparedness.

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Relias

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This report can help organizations identify potential overpayments as well as potential underpayments. The report is available for the following facilities: Skilled nursing facilities. Home health agencies. Inpatient psychiatric facilities. Inpatient rehabilitation facilities. Long‐term acute care hospitals. Partial hospitalization programs.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 3, 2024

This edition includes updated policy statements on a wide range of topics, including rural social work, voter rights and participation, mental health, hospice care, juvenile justice, foster care and adoption, and the rights of indigenous peoples.

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Social Work Blog

JUNE 3, 2024

This edition includes updated policy statements on a wide range of topics, including rural social work, voter rights and participation, mental health, hospice care, juvenile justice, foster care and adoption, and the rights of indigenous peoples.

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Relias

AUGUST 8, 2023

Some of these training opportunities relate directly to care and may encompass: Activities of daily living Changes related to aging Special needs Individual rights Ethical issues Effective communication Managing challenging family situations Plans for care Special procedures Infection control Medication administration and assistance Recreational activities (..)

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Relias

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The increased pressure of the COVID-19 pandemic has presented never-before-seen growth opportunities for home health agencies and their workforce, as Bill Dombi, President of the National Association of Home Care and Hospice (NAHC), noted in a December 2021 webinar titled The State of Home Health.

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Social Work With Adults

APRIL 3, 2025

Headteachers I speak to greatly value their school social workers and the work of hospice social workers (as I know personally, from the loss of my father in law earlier this year) is incredibly compassionate and comforting to those at the end of their lives and their families.

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Relias

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Near patients’ final days, they and their families can greatly benefit from hospice professionals who understand how to provide specialized care for dementia. Dementia has a long, variable course, making prognostication and determining hospice eligibility difficult. Below are four ways hospice can provide care for people with dementia.

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Relias

MAY 22, 2023

One of the most challenging tasks that caregivers for people living with dementia face is understanding certain behaviors and needs. Toxic changes in the brain destroy neurons and affect the behavior and emotional state of the person living with the disease.

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Relias

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Dementia care is one of the most challenging types of patient care in every setting — from in-home care to assisted living, skilled nursing facilities, and hospitals. Having a care team with the competence to handle the complex challenges of people living with dementia is vital to providing respectful and optimal care.

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Social Work Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Fittingly and true to her own final intention, Diana died peacefully at her Leonia, New Jersey home while receiving hospice care. She was 88 years old. As the younger daughter born to Anna Avallone Guida Masciari and Crescenzo Francis (Joe) Guida, Diana would grow up in New York City and then Glendale, California.

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The Guardian

JULY 15, 2024

Sector says ‘too many people dying in avoidable pain’, with soaring numbers being pushed back into the NHS One in five hospices in the UK are cutting services amid the worst funding crisis in two decades, a report has warned, with soaring numbers of patients being pushed back into the NHS.

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The Guardian

JULY 17, 2024

But for about 28,000 people who need specialist end-of-life care (nearly 5% of all deaths), a hospice is where they receive it. A much larger number receive palliative care from hospices in the community (more than 80% of hospices’ work is delivered in this way, through partnerships with the NHS). Continue reading.

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Social Work Blog

APRIL 12, 2022

A hospice nurse visits an elderly man. Getty Images. Brittney Chesworth. While most people don’t like the idea of death, they are able to accept to some degree that they are going to die one day.

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Relias

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Whether your focus is skilled nursing, home health, hospice, or another post-acute sector, are you confident in your survey readiness? As a post-acute care provider, you need to prove that your organization meets the expected standard of care, safety, and other compliance and regulatory requirements.

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Social Care

AUGUST 20, 2024

without an employer led occupational health scheme, including those working for a registered residential care or nursing home, registered domiciliary care providers, voluntary managed hospice providers and those… employed by those who receive direct payments (personal budgets) or Personal Health budgets.”

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The Guardian

AUGUST 16, 2023

Fast-forward more than 20 years, and we find Frank mute and motionless in a Hyde hospice, in the charge of Justine, a not-so-tender carer. Was Frank, her live-in carer, partly to blame for surrendering her to the care of “Dr Death”?

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The Guardian

JANUARY 27, 2025

Instead, a hospice she had used suggested she apply for continuing healthcare (CHC) the NHS-funded service that provides care workers for people with primary health needs outside hospital and wait for however long it took for swamped assessors to get to her application.

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The Guardian

MARCH 24, 2025

St Catherines hospice in West Sussex says it has been forced to leave beds empty despite the demand for end-of-life care At the end of 2023, St Catherines hospice near Crawley, West Sussex, moved to a new purpose-built, state-of-the art building. The land was a gift from a local businessman. Continue reading.

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The Guardian

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Officials have been looking at the options for providing more funding to hospices and other end-of-life care through the NHS partly to offset the impact of the national insurance rise , which the sector believes could cost it £30m a year.

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Community Care

JANUARY 16, 2025

Her family have shared that donations to the Trussell Trust, Cancer Research UK or Arthur Rank Hospice would be much appreciated in her memory. I know that Sues son will read this – never was there a son more loved – and I hope it offers him and his family some solace too. Sue Williams died on 5 January 2025 at the age of 69.

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