Are Palliative Care and Hospice the Same? If Not, What's Different?
Palliative care is delivered by hospice but is hospice delivered by palliative care? Where to they differ? How do I decide which is the right choice to pursue for my loved one who is suffering?
Continue reading on Egosancares blog to learn more about the two services and how they are the same in some aspects but different in others:
Minding Our Elders: Caregivers Share Their Personal Stories. “I hold onto your book as a life preserver and am reading it slowly on purpose...I don't want it to end.” ...Craig William Dayton, Film Composer
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Source: Minding Our Elders - April 21, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Oregon's Pioneering Effort to Enact State Law to Allow Access to Psilocybin
Kathryn L. Tucker, J. D., Oregon's Pioneering Effort to Enact State Law to Allow Access to Psilocybin, 57 Williamette L. Rev. (2020): Use of psilocybin reduces anxiety and depression when used as palliative care in cancer cases. Oregon is poised... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - April 21, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 19th 2021
In conclusion, airway pressure treatment and adherence are independently associated with lower odds of incident AD diagnoses in older adults. Results suggest that treatment of OSA may reduce risk of subsequent dementia. (Source: Fight Aging!)
Source: Fight Aging! - April 18, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
A Gene Therapy Platform Applied to Skin Rejuvenation
MRBL is one of the many projects relevant to the treatment of aging that is in George Church's orbit. This is a collection of gene therapy technologies intended for delivery of vectors to areas of skin directly, coupled with analysis of age-related and disease-related gene expression changes in skin cell populations to provide targets. It is a viewed as a basis for approaches in cell reprogramming that could make aged skin cells behave in a more youthful fashion, overriding their response to the age-damaged local environment.
In terms of mechanisms known to be of interest in aging, upregulation of collagen productio...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 15, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Choosing Palliative Care as a Medical Specialty
by Sylvia Lane (@sylv_lane)There are few things more introspective than deciding on a specialty in medicine. The decision forces you to analyze what interests and values you hold but also who you are as a person. How do you solve problems? How do you work with others? What brings you joy? As a third-year medical student, I was able to try on many specialties. Rotating through various fields allowed me to soak up knowledge from almost every type of healthcare professional. But this experience comes with a heavy burden of choosing a future career path.From the beginning, I knew that I was not like most of my fellow medical s...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - April 9, 2021 Category: Palliative Care Tags: lane learner medical school medical student residency The profession Source Type: blogs
3 critical things health care providers should discuss in serious illness conversations
Canadians with serious or progressive chronic illness are feeling especially vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic. It has underscored how quickly circumstances can change. Talking about a serious illness diagnosis and the impact on life expectancy is difficult. Many Canadians are uncomfortable having these conversations, even though they know it is important. Surveys have uncovered this […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 9, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/allan-grill-and-cindy-dumba" rel="tag" > Allan Grill, MD and Cindy Dumba < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Palliative Care Source Type: blogs
Oregon's Pioneering Effort to Enact State Law to Allow Access to Psilocybin
Kathryn L. Tucker, J. D., Oregon's Pioneering Effort to Enact State Law to Allow Access to Psilocybin, 57(1) Willamette L. Rev. (2020): Use of psilocybin reduces anxiety and depression when used as palliative care in cancer cases. Oregon is poised... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - April 9, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
What Is Grief, If Not Love Persevering?: A Palliative Perspective On WandaVision
by SarahScott B. Dietz (@SDietzMD)WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS SIGNIFICANT SPOILERS FORWANDAVISION.In January,WandaVision released on Disney+, promising a weekly serial centered around two romatincally involved and familiar Marvel characters, Wanda Maximoff (aka Scarlet Witch) and Vision. The advertisements showed a black and white, vintage look to the show, and gave few clues as to exactly how it would tie in with the rest of theMarvel Cinematic Universe. Fans were intrigued for many reasons, chief among them being that the last time we saw Vision,he was dead. (CW-Superhero violence/death)I dove intoWandaVision like many f...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - April 7, 2021 Category: Palliative Care Tags: comics dietz grief media television Source Type: blogs
Advance Care Planning? Meh. - Part 2
by Drew Rosielle (@drosielle)This is Part 2/2 of a couple posts about advance care planning (ACP).The last post outlined why there are really good reasons to believe that ACP (completion of health care directives and the healthcare conversations that occur around healthcare directive (HCD) completion, implemented on a broad scale) does not lead to any better, patient-centered outcomes, particularly when evaluated as a health intervention to be applied across a population (which is how ACP is typically conceptualized and researched).In the prior post, I perhaps obnoxiously promised that I thought one of the most important A...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - March 31, 2021 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: blogs
Advance Care Planning? Meh. - Part 1
by Drew Rosielle (@drosielle) (no degrees)Several years ago I was giving a talk in front of a mostly palliative care audience and asked, "How often do you find yourself, in the care of your patients, saying to yourself something like ' Thank the stars this patient has a healthcare directive (HCD) ' ? " The overwhelming answer was a bunch of shrugs and people agreeing occasionally (but not routinely) HCDs are helpful.For something that seems so central to our work, why is it that so many of my colleagues that day were lukewarm about their utility?It ' s fair to say that the last few months have been a controversial one in t...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - March 29, 2021 Category: Palliative Care Tags: advance care planning rosielle Source Type: blogs
On the Value of Social Work in Palliative Care
by Vickie Leff (@VickieLeff)Another year, another study proving the value of the palliative care social worker. Edmonds et al (2021) found that when a social worker was involved in a palliative care consultation, whole-person care components were more likely to be addressed, including addressing psychological (82% vs 18%) and spiritual needs (92% vs 8%) and documenting advance directives (90% vs 10%). This adds to what we already knew: involvement of social work impacts quality of care and patient satisfaction (Auerbach, 2007; O ’Donnell et al., 2018).It surprises me that despite much research and team role development, ...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - March 22, 2021 Category: Palliative Care Tags: hospice leff palliative care social work social worker Source Type: blogs
Palliative Care Social Worker Infographic
(Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog)
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - March 22, 2021 Category: Palliative Care Tags: leff social work social worker Source Type: blogs
Coping With Older Adults Who Won ’t Accept In-Home Caregivers
Photo credit Matteo Vistascca
...I’m not the first family caregiver to struggle with getting a senior to accept home care. Families hire these services to provide valuable respite time and quality care for seniors, but what is a caregiver to do when their loved one refuses to cooperate with this new addition to their care plan?
Continue reading on Agingcare for insight into why some older adults become so rigid and refuse in-home care:
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Source: Minding Our Elders - March 18, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
What Remains of Edith Finch? - A Video Game Review
by Matthew Tyler (@PalliDad)Fortunately for me, the pandemic has not interfered with my life-long hobby: video games. I finally got around to playingWhat Remains of Edith Finch, a game that received high praise for its short but engrossing Lovecraftian-esque narrative. What I experienced was a surprisingly insightful exploration of humanity ’s relationship with death.Coincidentally, I had just readBJ Miller ’s opinion piece “What is Death?” in The New York Times and was struck by the parallels between it and What Remains. This game illustrates how one may “fold death into our lives,” and what can happen when we...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - March 15, 2021 Category: Palliative Care Tags: game Tyler video games Source Type: blogs
Are You Confused About the Difference Between Palliative Care and Hospice Care?
This reader's mom has many health problems and is nearing end-of-life care. She doesn't understand palliative care and what the difference is between that and hospice.
Continue reading on Egosancares Blog to learn about the differences between the two services:
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Source: Minding Our Elders - March 15, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
