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Tag Archives: Hospice
How Can a Care Manager Help You?
Interview with Amanda Lambert
For this piece, I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing Amanda Lambert. Amanda lives in Utah where she is a care manager and co-author of the book “Aging with Care: Your Guide to Hiring and Managing Caregivers at Home.” Over the last 25 … Continue reading
“On Living” by Kerry Egan
A hospice chaplain writes about life, death and what happens in between
To be perfectly honest, I was prepared not to like Kerry Egan’s “On Living,” despite it’s unfailingly positive reviews. I am not a religious person, and I fully expected a book written by a hospice chaplain to be brimming with … Continue reading
New Algorithm May Help To Provide Better Palliative Care
The algorithm predicts when patients may die, which can help palliative care teams to know when to intervene
The ways in which technological advancements can help to improve end-of-life care are numerous. One such breakthrough comes from Stanford University, where researchers recently developed a deep neural network algorithm to help doctors decide when to implement palliative care. The algorithm uses … Continue reading
How Does Touch Awareness Improve Caregiving and Healthcare?
An interview with Everflowing director and educator Irene Smith, Part Two
Today SevenPonds speaks with Irene Smith, founder and director of Everflowing, an educational program centered around creating a more supportive environment for hospice patients and their healthcare providers. Smith has three decades of experience as an educator and practitioner, focusing primarily on … Continue reading
Why Does Earlier Hospice Care Improve the End of Life?
Palliative care professionals believe terminally ill people wait too long to sign up for hospice
A study performed by the Yale School of Medicine suggests that receiving hospice care earlier in your disease process can improve the quality of the end of your life. Right now, many people are admitted to hospice within a few … Continue reading
How Important is Touch at the Bedside of the Dying?
An interview with Everflowing director and educator Irene Smith, Part One
Today SevenPonds speaks with Irene Smith, founder and director of Everflowing, an educational program centered around creating a more supportive environment for hospice patients and their healthcare providers. Smith has three decades of experience as an educator and practitioner, focusing primarily … Continue reading
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Tagged AIDS, Everflowing, Hospice, Irene Smith, massage and grief, power of touch, Therapeutic touch, Touch Awareness
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