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Elderly person receiving support to stave off warning signs of suicide.

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Preventing Suicide in the Elderly Population
Home health care clinician assisting a patient

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What Are the Home Health Care Eligibility Criteria?
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

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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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Seven Signs That It’s Time for Hospice
Caregiver dressed in green scrubs assessing the mobility of an elderly female patient’s right leg

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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?
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 During COVID-19
Preventing elderly loneliness

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Expert Tips for Preventing Elderly Loneliness
A home health nurse

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Celebrating Home Health, Hospice and Personal Care Nurses
Myths of home health care

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10 Myths About Home Health Care
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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Five Medication Management Issues and How to Solve Them
Hospice patient with spouse

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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
Signs Parents Need Hospice

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9 Signs Aging Parents Need Hospice Care
Fall Prevention Questions

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Fall Prevention Questions for Seniors
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
Heart Failure Wellness Tips

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Four Wellness Tips to Manage Heart Failure
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