Compassionate Communication… Provide family with a list of commonly asked questions
Forbes Hospice recognizes that friends and family often have similar questions. Their hospice team developed a Question Prompt Sheet (QPS) which they can give to family and friends. The QPS encourages families to ask questions, helps them to identify what questions they might want to ask, helps stimulate them to think of other questions they […]
Difference between hospice and palliative care – geographic comparison and suggestion that we benefit from a "GPS" to help us navigate!he terrain!
Dr James Cooper wrote a comparison of Hospice and Palliative Care, providing some good examples of the emphasis in both hospice and palliative care to encourage the dying person to choose the treatment they want. He closes his summary by comparing hospice and palliative care to North America and Europe – “The basic primer is […]
One strategy to decrease overtreatment…
A hundred years ago we did not need to worry about this… but when dying in the 21st century, overtreatment is possible, can add to disease burden, can decrease quality of life, and is in fact a concern that we need to address! Article in NY Times by Tara Parker Pope, “Overtreatment is taking its […]
Two websites that every patient and family should know about…
Imagine… a personal, protected site that makes it easy to post a health update, send out an email blast to friends and family, and better yet,… list anything that you need help with. A website that will save you time and energy of making multiple requests and worrying about being a burden. Or Imagine… you […]
