Hospice News January 5, 2024
Forging stronger interdisciplinary relationships with behavioral health experts could help hospice providers ease caregiver burdens that can impact quality of end-of-life care.
A growing aging population is putting pressure on today’s family caregivers with competing priorities. Now more than ever adults in the United States are increasingly struggling to balance work, family and caregiver roles amid rising demand for serious illness and end-of-life care, according to Melissa Reilly, chief growth officer at Evernorth Behavioral Health.
Caregivers can often have unmet mental health needs that significantly impact their ability to support critically ill loved ones – an area that more health care providers will need to focus on addressing to improve quality, Reilly said at Aging Media Network’s Continuum conference in...