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Family Members Are Swiping Hospice Patients' Painkillers: Study
In a survey of 371 hospices, 31% reported at least one case in which drugs were taken from a patient in the past 90 days. The thieves were most often relatives.
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Dementia Caregivers Often Face Sleepless Nights
Investigators at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, found caregivers lost between 2.5 to 3.5 hours of sleep a week due to difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep.
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Could You Afford Home Health Care? Maybe Not
Only two out of five older adults with significant disabilities have the assets on hand to pay for at least a couple of years of extensive in-home care, researchers found.
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Trump OKs 'Right to Try' Law For Terminal Patients
But some experts worry that the new law will also make desperate, frail patients vulnerable to more harm, with FDA oversight taken away.
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Palliative Care Raises Quality of Life
Researchers find value for extremely ill patients and their caregivers, but add that it doesn't affect survival
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Colorado Voters Approve Aid-in-Dying Measure
Colorado Voters Approve Aid-in-Dying Measure
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Elderly Get Unnecessary End-of-Life Treatments
Family members may pressure doctors to attempt heroic interventions, researcher says
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California Enacts Right-to-Die Law
Move triples percentage of terminally ill patients in U.S. who will now have this option
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Early Palliative Care Seems to Help Caregivers Too
Such programs improve quality of life for folks caring for terminal cancer patients, study finds
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Families: Hospice Best for Dying Cancer Patients
Doctors need to heed preferences of patients, prepare for end of life sooner, experts say
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Doctors Choose Less Aggressive Care at End of Life
Findings suggest they understand limits of modern medicine better than the patients they treat do
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Palliative Care Cuts Costs for These People
Relieving symptoms and stress helps families as well, study says
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Dying at Home Brings More Peace Without More Pain
Patients and loved ones found greater comfort spending final days together in familiar place
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CA Governor Signs Right-to-Die Bill Into Law
Doctors can now prescribe life-ending drugs to terminally ill
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Many Americans May Get Hospice Care Too Late
A third die within a week of beginning palliative care, experts say
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End-of-Life Care Discussions May Miss Patient Priorities
Care preferences, prognosis, values, fears important to the ill and their family
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Could a Fading Sense of Smell Point to Earlier Death?
Study found inability to distinguish odors predicted higher odds of dying over next 5 years
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Futile Care in ICU a Common Occurrence, Doctors Say
Costly treatments are not always in line with patient's prognosis, researcher contends
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Shift to Hospice Care Often Comes Too Late, Study Finds
Almost a third of patients didn't get palliative care until final three days of life, often after ICU stay
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Poll Reveals Challenges of Providing End-of-Life Care
Though doctors nearly universally agree that helping patients die without pain is a more important goal than doing everything possible to prolong their lives, many say it can be tough to talk to patients about palliative care, a new poll shows.
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Nation Gets 'B' for Hospital Support Care
Most people with serious illness -- and half of their caregivers -- don't get palliative care. Only 7 states get an "A" rating; 25 get a "B," 12 get a "C," 4 get a "D," and two (Delaware and Mississippi) get an "F."
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Advance Directives Shape End-of-Life Experiences
A study suggests that preparing an advance directive can help shape your overall experience at the end of life.
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Talking About End-of-Life Care Doesn't Raise Death Risk
Talking about end-of-life care and having advance directives doesn't make death come any more quickly, according to a new study.
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Music Therapy May Ease Anxiety of Cancer Patients
Listening to recorded music or working with a music therapist may reduce anxiety levels of cancer patients and have other positive effects as well, a new study shows.
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People Living Longer With HIV
The number of people living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS, continues to rise. That’s mainly because of highly effective drugs that allow people infected with HIV to live longer, healthier lives, the CDC says.
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