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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 nurse discussing Medicare with her patient.

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Does Medicare Cover Home Health Care Benefits?
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 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?
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
understanding-heart-failure

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The Keys to Understanding Heart Failure and Home Health Care
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
Nursing Care Plan for Diabetes

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Nursing Care Plans for Diabetes: What You Need to Know
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
Physical Therapy Prevents Falls

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How Physical Therapy Helps Prevent Falls
A home health clinician providing care

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14 Conditions and Illnesses Home Health Care Can Treat
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?
Where Can I Get Home Health

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Where Can I Get Home Health 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
Hospice clinician and patient

4 min read

What Is Hospice?
Explaining home health versus hospice care

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Home Health vs. Hospice
palliative-care-vs-hospice

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Palliative Care vs Hospice
A speech therapist caring for a home health patient

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The Conditions Speech Therapy Treats in Home Health Care
Preventing elderly loneliness

5 min read

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
Home health care clinician

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How to Pay for Home Health Care
Finding high-quality home health

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How to Find a High-Quality Home Health Care Provider
Hospice patient and caregiver holding hands

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How to Plan for a Good Death
Home health patient

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5 Fall Precautions to Prevent Falls in the Elderly
Home health care

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Home Health vs. Home Care

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Five Medication Management Issues and How to Solve Them
Living well with a chronic condition

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How to Live Well With a Chronic Illness
Hospice patient with spouse

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Who Pays for Hospice Care?
Home health care clinician and patient

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Benefits of Home Health Care
Hospice clinician and patient

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Benefits of Hospice Care
Choosing a hospice agency

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How to Choose a Home Hospice Agency
Hospice and Home Health Holidays

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Hospice and Home Health Care Help Patients Stay Home for the Holidays
Maximizing Hospice Benefit

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Maximizing Hospice Care Benefit
Fall Prevention Questions

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Fall Prevention Questions for Seniors
Choosing Veterans Hospice

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What to Look for When Choosing a Veterans' Hospice
Hospice Needs for Veterans

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Unique Hospice & Palliative Care Needs for Veterans
Fall Risk and Prevention

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Fall Risk & Prevention for Seniors

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How Speech Therapy Can Reduce Falls
Heart Failure Wellness Tips

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Four Wellness Tips to Manage Heart Failure
Avoid Medication Mistakes

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10 Easy Ways to Avoid Medication Mistakes
How to Prevent Dehydration

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Easy Ways to Prevent Dehydration