Hospice News April 17, 2025
Many families are ill-equipped to handle the various physical, emotional, psychosocial and practical needs of a loved one nearing the end of life. Forging stronger collaborations with advance care planning service providers can help hospices ensure better goal-concordant care delivery.
Decisions at the end of life reach beyond an individual’s medical condition and involve in-depth consideration of how each person defines quality, according to Sharon Hamill, executive director at the California State University Shiley Institute for Palliative Care.
Advance directives provide a basic foundation of guidance for a family and health care team to honor a patient’s wishes, but often gaps can appear when unforeseen circumstances arise, Hamill stated.
“The devil is in the details. There are big decisions that...
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