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The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) has received several calls, faxes, and e-mails from members across the country who received a faxed membership dues invoice from an organization called the National Home Care and Hospice Palliative Care Association. The invoice is for 2010 annual dues of $475. The payment address is South Easton, MA.
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A new survey, conducted by a worldwide company that provides private, in-home care for older adults, suggests that older Americans and their adult children do a poor job of planning for their future needs as health begins to fail.
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It's not unusual for a patient to express a desire to go home from the hospital when facing the end of life, say two experts interviewed by AHC Media, publisher of Hospice Management Advisor. However, the decision-making to allow this move can be fraught with complexity, depending on the patient's medical condition and needs.
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When Papa John's wanted to improve its Internet presence, the pizza company hired teenagers to manage the social media, says Merrily Orsini, MSSW, managing director of Corecubed, an integrated marketing, design, and public relations company based in Louisville, KY.
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A pilot study suggests the hallucinogen psilocybin may be feasible and safe to administer to patients with advanced-stage cancer and anxiety, with promising effects on mood, according to a report published online today that will appear in the January 2011 print issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the Journal of the American Medical Association journals.
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A new study released by The New England Journal of Medicine found that among patients with non-small-cell lung cancer, those who received palliative care lived, on average, almost two months longer than those who received standard care.
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Influenza vaccination of health care personnel is a professional and ethical responsibility, and non-compliance with health care facility policies regarding vaccination should not be tolerated, according to a position paper released by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA).
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More older women obtain home-based care for chronic health issues than men, according to a study by the American Association for Long-Term Care Insurance (AALTCI).
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There might be no simple one-size-fits-all approach to improving end-of-life care in ICU settings, according to a recent study from some of the world's leading researchers in palliative care.
