Early Admission to Hospice Key to Good End-of-Life Care
MedScape
The way cancer patients die influences how family members feel about the quality of care their loved ones received during their final days, a new study shows.
Transforming End of Life Care in Acute Hospitals NHS Guide Updated
UK – Words Worth Reading
NHS England first published its’ strategy for end of life care in England in 2008 and since then the rising trend for deaths in hospital has been reversed.
UK – The Independent
A unique centre for palliative care is bringing together doctors and academics to create a “deeper body of research” to transform care for seriously ill children across the UK.
US – PR Newswire
While 90 percent of Americans agree it’s important to talk about end-of-life care preferences, only 27 percent have done so.
Reaction to JAMA theme issue on Death, Dying, and End of Life
US – GeriPal
JAMA just came out with a theme issue subtitled Death, Dying, and End of Life. Alex Smith gives some quick thoughts and first reactions.
Doctors get less aggressive care before death
US – The Jordan Times
Doctors tend to get less aggressive care before death than the average person, a new study finds.
US – PR Web
HealthCare Chaplaincy Network recently granted its “Excellence in Spiritual Care Award” to Interim HealthCare Hospice, of Greenville, S.C., distinguishing the local agency as the first hospice and only the third organization in the nation to receive this honor.
Hospice hands out £50 notes but there is a catch
UK – Worthing Herald
A hospice will be handing out £50 to schools, businesses and groups in a new challenge that will put people’s money making skills to the test.
ED-Initiated Palliative Care Can Improve Quality of Life
US – AJMC.com
A new study published in JAMA Oncology, suggests that Emergency Department-initiated palliative care consultation improved quality of life (QOL) for patients with advanced cancer and does not appear to shorten survival.
In medicine, dying doesn’t have to be a struggle
US – UCLA Newsroom
Experts at an event hosted by Zocálo and UCLA assert that communication and compassion are essential at the end of life.
ehospice Kenya
One of the biggest and most mysterious life twists and turns is life itself; you just cannot understand it. But should we really be trying to understand it or should we just embrace it as it comes?
Is palliative and end of life care relevant?
ehospice UK
Following the BMA report published earlier this month which, once again, highlights the variability in the quality and availability of end of life care, St Giles Hospice CEO Emma Hodges asks why, after so many studies and reviews, there is still something to write about.
HFA advance care planning awareness campaign
ehospice USA
Hospice Foundation of America announces a new public awareness campaign around advance care planning that will be supported by a grant from John and Wauna Harman Foundation.
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