Advance Care Planning and Coping With Serious Illness
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Talking to Your Child’s Doctor: When Your Child Has a Serious Illness
Understanding Your Child's Illness requires clear communication between the professional care providers and family caregivers.
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How to Talk with Your Healthcare Providers
Starting the conversation with your doctor or healthcare providers about your end-of-life wishes before a crisis occurs.
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State-Specific Advance Directives
State-specific advance care directives available for download on caringinfo.org.
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Federal Sequestration Cuts and the Hospice Community
Most Americans are aware that Congress took action in January to avoid the fiscal cliff that would impact just about every aspect of federal spending. While most individual income tax increases were avoided, Congress provided only short term relief from “across the board” spending cuts known as "sequestration" that go into effect March 1, 2013.
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Facts about Hospice Care Everyone Should Know
Hospice isn’t a place. It’s a type of care that focuses on living…living as fully as possible, up until the end of life. Hospice brings comfort, love, and respect to the patients and families they care for.
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Research Published in JAMA Raises Concerns about Short Stay Hospice Patients
New research from Brown University published in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that use of hospice care among Medicare beneficiaries has risen in the last decade. Researchers document an increase in hospice use over the last decade but also find more ICU utilization, more repeat hospitalizations, and more late health care transitions.
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NHPCO Welcomes Board Members for 2013
At the first official board meeting of the year, held January 26 in Hollywood, Florida, the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization welcomed new and returning individuals to the board of directors and the 2013 executive committee.
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