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Bakersfield.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Wondering how to help and what to do as your beloved pet suffers near the end of its life is a sad, helpless time. Our story in Sunday's Eye Street about pet hospice and Alpha Canine Sanctuary struck a chord with readers who have faced that painful loss. The story by contributing writer Dianne Hardisty highlighted the work of Marilyn Stewart at her no-kill dog sanctuary, north of Bakersfield (www.www.alphacanine.org),...
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Gov20, HealthIT & Healthcare Reform (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
“The Cost of Dying,” which aired Nov. 22 on CBS News’ 60 Minutes explores the incredible amount of money spent on healthcare at the very end of people’s lives. It was an extremely timely and valuable program. As end of life care is brought to the forefront on the health reform debate, it is worth taking some time to watch the video below. In 2008, Medicare paid $50 billion for...
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Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Pediatric palliative care, a holistic approach to help young patients and their loved ones, is beginning to gain momentum.
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Sunlight follows me (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Here's where we were yesterday: We were at the Dover Park Hospice SUNday 2009 walk!I've visited Dover Park Hospice, which is one of the (very) few places in Singapore that provides an inpatient palliative care service, and found it to be an excellent, well-run facility with staff and volunteers that are well-trained in end-of-life issues. So when I found out that there was a fundraising event, I
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Pallimed (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Clinical Chemistry has a fascinating case discussion about finding hydromorphone on a urine drug test in a hospice patient receiving high doses of morphine. It discusses hydromorphone as a minor metabolite of morphine, and one that can be found in urine drug testing in patients only taking morphine (which they argue this patient likely was - was in a sequestered environment long-term, etc.). In talking...
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Pallimed (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Image via Wikipedia 60 Minutes lead story Sunday night was "The Cost of Dying" which discussed the often quoted Medicare spends XX billion on care for the last XX months of life. (In this story they used $50B for the last 2 months, but there are many variations depending on the time specified as I am sure most of you have heard before.) Featured in the story was Dr. Ira Byock and his team...
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Medical Futility (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
The HIN National Institute of Nursinf Research has released a new patient-oriented brochure on palliative care: "Palliative Care: The Relief You Need When You’re Experiencing the Symptoms of Serious Illness," The brochure explains in easy-to-understand language what palliative care is, who it benefits, and how it works. The brochure also addresses certain misconceptions about palliative...
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Services of palliative care society lauded ‘It is heartening to know that some people are still able to feel the pain and suffering of the marginalised’.Thrissur: The Pain and Palliative Care Society, Thrissur, which has been providing free care and support to hundreds of incurably-ill and chronically bed-ridden patients, celebrated its 12th anniversary on Saturday.Writer Anand delivered...
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My Suzy Homemaker (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
A few things about me you may not know already......A busy Mom who raises her family and volunteers at the elementary school, A Mom who also watches a couple of other Kiddos after school, A catering manager when the need arises, And most of all a Hospice Volunteer. Yes, I volunteer for Hospice. I make weekly visits to my older friends, and for some who may not have any family members left. I also scrapbook...
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City Room (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Two New York City doctors, the head of the city's largest public hospital and a nationally known geriatrician, gently clashed at a City Council hearing to discuss how to deal with the growing demand for end-of-life care.
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NHS Evidence Specialist Collections News Alert (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
An update of the evidence on this topic from NHS Evidence - supportive and palliative care. The Annual Evidence Update on supportive and palliative care in chronic lung disease collects together the best new knowledge covering two key symptoms which affect most patients - cough and dyspnoea (breathlessness). Our review of the literature will encompass recent advances in our understanding of the mechanisms...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The closure of a nursing home in East Sussex which provides palliative care is confirmed by its board of directors.
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Government order to give a boost to palliative care
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
The State government has made it mandatory for the local bodies to support the palliative care movement financially and administratively. – ...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
As demand grows for palliative medicine — a subspecialty that includes hospice care and focuses on critically ill patients and their families — the University of Washington School of Medicine, in partnership with Providence Hospice of Seattle, is piloting the only palliative fellowship program in the state.
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eprnetwork | 08/21/2009
A team of employees from the people search specialists, Tracesmart, have successfully completed, the Welsh 3 Peaks Challenge. More importantly, the Tracesmart four, along with a group of 21 other walkers are anticipating raising almost £10,000 of much needed funding for the charity 'Hospice of the Valleys', which provides free specialist palliative care for cancer sufferers in Blaenau Gwent. The challenge
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wellbeingnewseditor | 08/19/2009
Wellbeing Newsline: Wales > Edited by Nick Adams: It has recently been confirmed that hospices and palliative care services across Wales are to receive £4 million in funds from the Welsh Assembly. The Welsh Assembly stated that over half of the allocated amount will help to finance the clinical palliative and end-of-life care services provided by both the country’s hospices and NHS palliative care...
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