FAQ Video #3: Where is Hospice Care Provided?
This is one video in a series of five where we attempt to answer a frequently asked question. Clinical Director Colleen Alexander answers this question for you: Where is hospice care provided?
FAQ Video #4: Doesn’t Hospice Just Focus on Dying?
This is one video in a series of five where we attempt to answer a frequently asked question. Clinical Director Colleen Alexander answers this question for you: Doesn’t hospice just focus on dying?
FAQ Video #5: Can we Change our Mind and go off Hospice?
This is one video in a series of five where we attempt to answer a frequently asked question. Clinical Director Colleen Alexander answers this question for you: Once we decide to go on hospice, can we change our mind and go off hospice?
V8-1: Hospice Care Linked to Better Patient Satisfaction
Ever since hospice care became available in the USA in the 1970s, doctors, nurses, and other medical experts have collected data to help shed light on the many way hospice care can help patients who are facing a life-limiting illness.
V7-4: Heart and Stroke Patients and their Families Benefit
The American Heart Association and American Stroke Association are following anew policy, which stresses the important of palliative and hospice care for patients with advanced heart disease and those who have a stroke. The associations recommend an early start to palliative care and referral to hospice when patients can benefit …
Glorious Unfolding
Every Wednesday morning, at our office we have an Interdisciplinary Group Meeting in our conference room. We discuss, one-by-one, each of the patients’ cases. It is fascinating – especially if you’ve had any medical training – or ever wanted to have any of it. We open and close each of …
V7-1: Earlier Hospice Enrollment
With Earlier Hospice Enrollment, Families Report Better End-of-Life Care
Dr. William Lamers Jr. dies at 80; championed modern hospice care
Elaine Woo February 19, 2012 Los Angeles Times “I’m not sick; I’m only dying,” a friend told Dr. William Lamers Jr. The man had inoperable cancer and wanted to go home to die, but his doctor wouldn’t let him out of the hospital. It was the early 1970s, when most …