Hospice

“Welcome to Victims Inc!, the largest corporation to produce random items. We produce everything from jigsaw puzzles to booklets on depression!” Shouted a portly tour guide as he led a group of nervous potential employees through the halls. The windows alongside the halls displayed hundreds of workers in a moribund state, pale and sickly as they worked in assembly line format. The disparity between the tour guide’s cheerful tone and their surroundings unnerved the new employees.…

Medicare Part A and B are great plans, but they can leave you with a lot of medical expenses. Medicare supplement plans are designed help cover your coinsurance and deductible through Medicare Part A & B and offer additional medical coverage. There Are Specific Benefits All Medicare Supplement Plans Have to Offer There is a lot of variance between Medicare Supplement Plans. However, there are basics that all Medicare Supplement plants have to offer for participants. The basics that all Medicare…

Subject of Clinical Inquiry: Advanced Directive/Care Planning Background questions: • As a result of the passage of health reform, there has been a political controversies surrounding the language, messaging regarding advance care planning, and end-of-life care decisions. • The Institute of Medicine (IOM) published a report in September 2014, that reassessed the status of end-of-life care in America • The IOM report recommended for policies and strategies to support care delivery that • is…

Although I have not participated in biomedical or clinical research I am continually applying to various different opportunities to do clinical research. I am very interested to be a part of clinical research and look forward to be able to practice researching techniques and procedures in the near future. Currently, I am working as a volunteer in several different areas. I have been regularly shadowing and volunteering at The Grace Family Practice. Volunteering, for almost five months, allowed…

taking his body away. This left me feeling very empty. I just wanted to be alone for a few hours and try to get myself together for my mom’s sake. The next few days were a blur. I felt I was going thought the motions, but wasn’t in control of my body. I had been though my mother in laws funeral three weeks earlier and knew what had to get done. It was very draining on me and my family. I had three kids in middle school. That summer was the first time they experience losing a loved one.…

church clergy members, and many others. Choosing palliative care over assisted suicide doesn’t always result in the patient being “hooked up to machines” for the rest of their lives. Not every patient has to be in a hospital. Palliative care and Hospice are used together, so if a patient is reaching the end of their life, they can request service in their homes. 66.4% of patients acquired palliative care…

reality as dozens of people celebrated the opening of a new facility housing NAMI/MOCA House on one side and Anazao Community Partners on the other. State and local officials, joined by community partners and supporters, toured the former LifeCare Hospice headquarters on Back Orrville Road to see what has become of the place. Doug Bailey, community capital project manager for the Ohio Department of Mental Health & Addiction Services, said he appreciated the collaborative nature of the endeavor,…

The topics of Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide are troubling ones for many. Some believe that it is immoral to kill off their loved ones, some support it, and others are not quite sure what to think. Euthanasia is defined as the practice of intentionally ending a life in order to relieve pain and suffering from an incurable illness; Physician Assisted Suicide is defined as the voluntary termination of one’s life using lethal substances with the help of a doctor, directly or indirectly.…

relieve suffering and maximize their quality of life. A speech language pathologist is on the palliative care team and has varying roles from patient to patient. They can consult with the patient, their family, or members of a home nursing staff (i.e., hospice) to give recommendations in the areas of “communication, cognition, and swallowing function.” Regarding communication the goal of the SLP is to provided the patient with the ability to make their own decisions, give them the option to…

Because RPCI is a cancer institute, the focus of much of the staff is on the physical well being of the patient. Social workers are permitted to ask questions regarding a patients trauma history as part of a psychosocial assessment, though it is not seen as a priority unless it appears to be affecting the treatment of the patients cancer. The time a social worker spends with a patient is limited and there is a great deal of information a social worker is required to gather from a patient…