12.11.2024
Palliative Pearls
11.18.2024
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) – Wrangling the Symptom Management Rodeo
INTRODUCTION1-4 Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a rare, incurable, progressive neurodegenerative disease that directly affects the motor neuron system...
10.18.2024
Pain Management: Back to the Basics
PATIENT CASE KP is a 66-year-old female with metastatic breast cancer and gastroesophageal reflux disease, who has recently been admitted to hospice. Current medications: Famotidine...
09.13.2024
Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy for Heart Failure: Hospice Considerations
Guideline Directed Medical Therapy (GDMT) for Heart Failure1 Guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) for heart failure (specifically, for heart failure (HF) with reduced ejection fraction, or...
08.20.2024
Back to Basics: Skin Conditions & Topical Treatment
The skin is the largest organ in the human body. It functions to protect against microorganisms, dehydration, and mechanical damage. It is the human body’s...
07.19.2024
Understanding Dyspnea in End-Stage COPD: Back to Basics
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is characterized by persistent respiratory symptoms with airflow limitation due to airway and/or alveoli abnormalities such as restriction, scarring, destruction...
06.20.2024
Cultivating LGBTQ+ Inclusive and Gender-Affirming Hospice and Palliative Care
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services defines health equity as the “attainment of the highest level of health for all people” and notes...
05.23.2024
Back to Basics: Managing Noisy Breathing (“Death Rattle”) at the End of Life
Lucille is a 94-year-old woman with advanced dementia who resides in a nursing home. Her score of 7b in the Functional Assessment Staging Test (FAST)...
04.22.2024
Understanding Advanced Dementia – Back to Basics
Dementia is characterized by a decline in cognition involving one or more cognitive domains (learning and memory, language, executive function, complex attention, perceptual-motor, social cognition).1...