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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"Hospice care"”.
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Children's Hospice Care
… makes us spend a lot of our time in healthcare facilities such as hospitals, hospices, and care homes. Unfortunately, in many cases, these facilities do not pay much attention to emotional and spiritual needs of their patients and are mostly designed around their own institutional and …
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An analysis of hospice care in Indiana
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BELIEFS ABOUT HOSPICE CARE AMONG HELPING PROFESSIONALS
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>Centered on interviews with 13 hospice care professionals from two large hospice organizations in Southern California, this thesis project examines the challenges that arise in hospice work. Hospice’s delivery of end-of-life care is becoming even more significant as the …
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HISPANICS' UNDER-UTILIZATION OF HOSPICE CARE SERVICES
… was to learn about Hispanics’ utilization of hospice care and to increase knowledge about under-utilization of hospice services by the Hispanic community. Research in hospice services indicates that the Hispanic community underutilizes end-of-life resources when compared to their majority …
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Proactive Prescribing Enhancing Hospice Care Through Anticipatory Pharmacy Practices
… to reduce avoidable hospitalizations, alleviate caregiver stress, improve patient comfort during the end-of-life phase through assessing RN case manager confidence in educating families about anticipatory medications and rolling out the educational pamphlet as a teaching tool. Background: Hospice …
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Exploring the Ethical Dimensions of Hospice Care in Nursing Homes
… are vitally important in providing end-of-life care to our oldest frail adults in their final days. Hospice care is seen as the gold standard of end-of-life care in many settings, and studies support its benefits for nursing home residents as well. Available evidence suggests, however, that many …
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Hospice Care in Malaysia: Knowledge, Attitude and Time of Discussion
<p>Despite available and adequate hospice care resources, fewer terminally ill patients in Malaysia use hospice care services than one might reasonably expect. It is reported that only around 10% of patients who die of terminal illness in Malaysia, die in hospice care (Devaraj, 2003). The projected …
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The experiences of hospice patients and the music therapy clinician in hospice care
… phenomenological inquiry into the experiences of hospice patients and music therapy clinician in end of life care. Three total participants were included in this study, two hospice patients and the music therapy clinician. Interventions included singing familiar songs, music for relaxation and …
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Barriers Limiting Access to Hospice Care for Elderly African Americans in Amarillo, Texas
This study examines barriers limiting access to hospice care for elderly African Americans. Ethnic background plays a critical role in the development of attitudes, beliefs and expectations related to death and issues surrounding hospice care. The purpose of this study was to identify barriers that …
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Medication Cost and Utilization in Hospice Care: An Analysis of 2007 Claims Data
… 1. Describe patient-related and hospice-related characteristics such as gender, average length of hospice stay, primary diagnoses, average daily census, number of admissions per year, net operating revenues, inpatient unit (IPU) operating costs, and medication expenditures of …
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A qualitative study of the experience of primary caregivers of patients receiving end of life hospice care
… As the spouse or partner is often the primary caregiver for patients with a life-threatening illness it especially affects the couple as a unit, rather than isolated individuals. The Aim of this study. To explore and describe and describe the experience of primary caregivers of patients at end …
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A Community Wide Study Of The Hospice Referral Process
… the decision making process when seeking hospice care. The objectives were to identify the decision maker for the patient when seeking hospice care, why they were seeking hospice care, who initiated the referral, if the decision maker was aware they can self refer to hospice care, and the …
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A Cross-Cultural Study of Attitudes Toward Death and Dying Between Chinese and American College Students
… death and dying of a loved one, and toward hospice care, are there significant differences between colleges students from: (1) Mainland China, PRC, Hong Kong, Singapore, as well as Taiwan, ROC and the United States? (2) Mainland China, PRC and the United States? (3) Taiwan, ROC and the …
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PERCEPTIONS OF HOSPICE AMONG SOCIAL WORK STUDENTS: THE INFLUENCES OF SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS
… along with the use and continued need for hospice care services. Due to these circumstances there is on ongoing demand for experienced and knowledgeable social workers to meet the unique needs of this population. Research in this study indicates that social workers currently working in the …
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Pharmacotherapy in older people receiving palliative care in hospice settings: prescribing, deprescribing and medicines optimisation
… prescribing and deprescribing patterns in hospice care settings, to evaluate current deprescribing interventions, to determine deprescribing barriers and enablers from the perspectives of healthcare professionals (HCPs) and policymakers, and to evaluate the attitudes of HCPs, patients and …
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Thresholds: End of Life and Architecture
… of a human life is the time preceding death. Hospice care provides a gateway environment for many people for their transition to the other side. Societies throughout history have had rituals and traditions to support the dying and their loved ones, but for modern society, few of these rituals …
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Patients with Advanced Lung Cancer: Quality of Life and Perception of Dyspnea
… (CDS). The participants were 22 patients in a hospice care setting diagnosed with advanced lung cancer that reported dyspnea. Results: The findings supported the literature review suggestions that there was indeed relationship between the subscales, AQEL, and CDS measurement total scores. In …
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Puheterapeuttien kokemukset työstä palliatiivisissa hoitotyöryhmissä
… muodostui (palliativ* OR “end-of-life care” OR “hospice care”) AND (logopedic* OR slp OR “speech-language patholog*” OR “speech-language therap*”). Katsaukseen sisältyi viisi alkuperäistutkimusta, joista yksi valittiin mukaan käsinpoiminnalla. Tutkimusaineisto analysoitiin …
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Passages : a hospice for New York City
… It is into this environment that the concept of hospice care has emerged as an alternative way of thinking about death and dying, a reaction to the existing biomedical model of care. Hospice has put a humane focus on dying by creating a setting where pain is managed allowing the patient to move …
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The lived experience of nurses caring for the dying
… for the dying amongst nine (9) nurses in a hospice setting. The research was established within the context of published literature on the subject of caring for the dying from nursing. A qualitative, phenomenological approach was chosen as the most appropriate for this study, in order to …
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