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Hospice nurse helping patient with dementia

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Care for Dementia at the End of Life
caring hands holding a hand for comfort

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Does Hospice Cover 24-Hour Care at Home?
Home health nurse helping joint replacement patient

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Recovering at Home After Joint Replacement
doctor comforting person and holding hands

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What Are the Signs of Dying from Kidney Failure?
Home health clinician discussing insurance options

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Is Home Health Care Covered by Insurance?
Patient and nurse discuss insurance

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Does Medicaid Cover Home Health Care?
Chaplain explaining what to expect with hospice at home

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What to Expect from Hospice Care at Home
A man and woman discuss hospice coverage with provider

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Does Medicare Pay for Hospice Care in a Skilled Nursing Facility?
A hospice nurse discussing hospice care, palliative care and comfort care options with a patient

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Differences Between Hospice Care, Palliative Care and Comfort Care
home health care patient learning symptoms of heart failure

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What Are the Symptoms of Heart Failure?
hospice care for end-stage renal disease

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Understanding Hospice Care for End-Stage Renal Disease
Caregiver with end-stage renal disease patient

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What is End-Stage Renal Disease?

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Differences Between Inpatient and Home Hospice
Home health nurse helping COPD patient.

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The Symptoms and Causes of COPD
Hospice patient with dementia

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Signs that Death is Near for Hospice Patients with Dementia
Couple looking through memories of their loved one who passed.

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What to Say to Someone Who Lost a Loved One

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How Long Can You Be on Hospice Care?
Home health clinician helping to prevent falls in the home

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Steady Steps: Navigating Fall Prevention for Seniors
Hospice nurse helping a patient.

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Seven Stages of Dementia Before Death
Hospice clinician providing care

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What Does Hospice Care Mean and Is It Right for My Loved One?

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How Hospice Care Supports Advance Care Planning

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What Does Homebound Status Mean in Home Health Care?
Caregiver providing home health care to congestive heart failure patient

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What Are the Four Stages of Congestive Heart Failure?

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How Jimmy Carter is Dispelling Myths About Hospice
Dementia patient looking through photo album

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How Hospice Helps End-Stage Dementia Patients
Hospice clinician caring for heart failure patient

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Stages of Dying in End-Stage Congestive Heart Failure
Hospice professional discussing hospice care with family members

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When is Hospice Care Recommended? How to Know the Right Time
Caregiver supporting a hospice patient in respite care.

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How Respite Care Can Help Relieve Hospice Caregivers
Bereavement support helping with grief.

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Understanding the Five Stages of Grief and Loss | Amedisys

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Helping a Veteran Celebrate his 100th Birthday at Home
Family member hugging her loved one while having the hospice conversation.

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How to Manage Pushback When Discussing Hospice Care With Family Members
Elderly person receiving support to stave off warning signs of suicide.

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Preventing Suicide in the Elderly Population
Home health nurse discussing Medicare with her patient.

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Who is Eligible for Home Health Care Under Medicare?
Home health care clinician assisting a patient

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What Are the Home Health Care Eligibility Criteria?

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How Amedisys Helps With Pain Management During Hospice
A spiritual counselor is talking with a hospice patient and their family.

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Coping Tips for When Your Family Member Is in Hospice
A palliative care clinician discussing care options

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Everything You Need to Know About Medicare and Palliative Care at Home
A bereavement counselor helping a hospice patient.

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What Are the Different Stages of Dying?
Nurse helping home health patient walk down the stairs.

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How to Help Choose the Best Hospice Care for Your Family Member
Hospice nurse discussing hospice misconceptions with their patient.

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Eight Things You May Not Know About Hospice
Hospice nurse discussing signs it's time for hospice

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Eight Signs That It’s Time for Hospice

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Making the Most of Hospice

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What Are the Four Levels of Hospice Care?
Palliative Care Questions

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Your Palliative Care Questions, Answered
What is Palliative Care

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What is Palliative Care?
Hospice Bereavement Services

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The Importance of Hospice Bereavement Services
Medicare Covers Home Health for Dementia

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Does Medicare Cover Home Health Care for Dementia?
End of Life Pain Management

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End-of-Life Pain Management for Hospice Patients
Medicare Covers Hospice Benefits

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Does Medicare Cover Hospice Benefits?

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10 Tips to Improve Bathroom Safety for the Elderly
Home health care clinician and patient

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What Is Home Health Care?
Hospice Memory Trees

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How The Trees We Plant Honor Amedisys Patients
A chaplain with a hospice patient

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The Spiritual Needs of Dying Patients
Holding terminal hospice patient's hand

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What is Terminal Agitation? How Hospice Treats Terminal Restlessness
Preparing for Death

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Preparing for Death
A hospice specialist discussing the service

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Where Can My Loved One Get Hospice Care?
A hospice clinician and caregiver looking at memories

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What Are the Hospice Eligibility Criteria?
How to Find High Quality Hospice

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How to Find a High-Quality Hospice Agency
A physical therapist arriving at a patient's home

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Delivering Everyday Miracles: Why Physical Therapists Matter
palliative-care-vs-hospice

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Palliative Care vs Hospice
Coping with the loss of a loved one

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How to Deal With the Loss of a Loved One | Amedisys
Preventing elderly loneliness

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Expert Tips to Prevent Loneliness and Social Isolation in Older Adults
A home health nurse

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Celebrating Home Health and Hospice Nurses
Myths of home health care

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10 Myths About Home Health Care You Can Dispel
Choosing a home health agency

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How to Choose a Home Health Agency
Chaplain with a patient

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Daily Wellness Strategies to Be Okay When Life Is Not Okay
Home health patient

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5 Fall Precautions to Prevent Falls in the Elderly

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Medication Management and Safety Tips

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Who Pays for Hospice Care?
safe-holidays-older-adults

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How To Help Older Adults Stay Safe During Holidays
Signs Parents Need Home Health

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10 Signs Your Aging Parents Might Need Home Health Care
hard-conversations-health

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Sometimes, the Hardest Conversations Are the Most Important
start-the-conversation-health

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It's Never Too Early to Start the Conversation
occupational-therapy-home-health

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The Essential Role of Occupational Therapy in Home Health
Heart Failure Wellness Tips

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Four Wellness Tips to Manage Heart Failure
Heart Failure Improves Quality of Life

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Heart Failure Patient Improves Quality of Life With Home Healthcare
Home Health Assisted Living Facility

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Home Health: The Untapped Benefit for Assisted Living Patients
How to Cope with Grief During the Holidays

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12 Ways to Cope with Grief During the Holidays
hospice-myths

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Four Common Hospice Care Myths
manage-caregiver-stress

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Six Steps to Manage Your Stress as a Caregiver
How to Have the Hospice Conversation

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Eight Steps to Initiate the Hospice Conversation