Even in a nursing home, palliative care can be used to ease the way at the end of life
When a person moves out of their home and moves into a nursing home for their long-term care, they become a resident at the facility, because the long-term care facility (LTCF) is their new home. The resident will receive mail there, can submit an absentee voting ballot from there, receive personal visitors and telephone calls there. This is why federal law and state law are couched in terms...
What is Hospice care all about, really?
Palliative care is a specialized team approach to helping a patient to cope with the debilitating symptoms of certain serious complicated illnesses such as parkinsons Disease, heart failure, kidney failure, or COPD. The patient is receiving curative treatment and emergency room care during acute episodes of illness, and can receive dietary support, pain management, grief counselling, massage...
National Panel Encourages Greater Use of Palliative Care at End of Life
Today it was reported that a nonpartisan 21-member committee appointed by the federal Institute of Medicine, which is the independent research arm of the National Academy of Sciences, has issued the results of its investigation into the way the United States’ health care system including Medicare deal with the delivery of treatment at end of life. Their 507-page report is called “Dying...