Showing posts with label end of life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label end of life. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Shocking Claim- "Comatose People to be Declared Dead for Use as Organ Donors."

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A recent article warns that proposed changes to medical standards regarding end of life determinations mean that, " Comatose People to ...
Friday, January 26, 2018

Dementia Specific Advance Directives More Prevalent

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An increasing number of people will experience dementia. Worldwide, the number of people living with dementia is projected to increase f...
Monday, June 12, 2017

Do-Not-Hospitalize Orders Underutilized, Could Reduce Hospital Stays

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Do-not-hospitalize (DNH) orders help reduce the number of hospital stays and emergency department visits for nursing home residents, but the...
Friday, April 14, 2017

National Health Care Decisions Day: Conflicting State Laws Interfere with Patient's Health Care Choices

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The results of a new study underscore the importance of advanced directives and health care proxies in routine estate and health care plann...
Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Resident's Death Caused By Nursing Home Failing to Follow Advanced Directives Requesting CPR

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According to McKnight's , an Illinois nursing home has been cited and fined $25,000 after nursing staff failed to follow an advance dire...
Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Paramedics Often Obstructed, Provided Insufficient Information On Nursing Home Calls

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McKnight's reported recently the results of a new survey which finds that paramedics often receive little direction from nurses or m...
Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Hospice Patients in SNFs Less Likely to be Visited by Professional Staff the Last Two Days of Life

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Medicare patients who received hospice care in a nursing home setting were less likely to be visited by professional staff in the last two...
Tuesday, August 4, 2015

The Trouble With Advance Directives

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Where are your advance directives?  Are they up-to date? A recent article in the New York Times highlights two major problems with ...
Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Spouses of Hospice Residents Less Likely to Become Depressed

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Symptoms of depression are less common in the spouses of hospice residents when compared to families where hospice was not involved, a recen...
Wednesday, May 14, 2014

CMS to Force the Dying to Spend Their Final Days Jumping Through Hoops to Get Needed Medications

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To spare Medicare Part D insurance companies the risk of initially paying for prescriptions they don't have to cover, the Centers for...
Thursday, April 24, 2014

Religious Music Aids the Dying

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Listening to religious music helps seniors increase their life satisfaction and self-esteem, and decreases anxiety around death, according ...
Monday, October 4, 2004

Hospice Costs Medicare Less Notwithstanding that Hospice Patients Live Longer

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McKnight's reports that patients enrolled in hospice care cost Medicare less, according to the study " Medicare Cost in Matched H...