Making Contact
8 May 2019
Podcast / Over 15 Minutes
San Francisco, California, United States
Senior citizens can often face many barriers when trying to set up end of life care, and this is exacerbated for minorities due to language and cultural barriers. On Lok Senior Health Services, however, is a program now offered across the United States that helps seniors "age in place, and live independent, active lives," while still planning for the end of life.
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/10/16/449243933/how-uganda-came-to-earn-high-marks-for-quality-of-death
Rae Ellen Bichell
NPR
3 January 2016
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Uganda has the best quality of death among low-income countries, according to the Economic Intelligence Unit. Its success stems in part from the strictly regulated but available supply of morphine, which is distributed by pharmacists in labeled bottles.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/the-power-of-nursing
David Bornstein
The New York Times
6 May 2012
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In 2010, 5.9 million children were reported as abused or neglected in the United States. The Nurse-Family Partnership, or NFP, arranges for registered nurses to make regular home visits to first-time low-income or vulnerable mothers, starting early in their pregnancies and continuing until their child is 2.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/25/health/a-racial-gap-in-attitudes-toward-hospice-care.html
Sarah Varney
The New York Times
21 August 2015
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Despite years of change, African Americans feel ostracized from the medical care community that is dominated mainly by white people, especially when it comes to hospices. Some are trying to remove the stigma of hospice care as well as make health care systems more fair.
http://www.citylab.com/housing/2015/10/the-nursing-home-thats-also-a-dorm/408424
Tiffany R. Jansen
CityLab
2 October 2015
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More retirement and nursing homes are asking college students to move in, an arrangement that benefits everyone. Students stay free of charge in exchange for volunteering to help the seniors.
http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/12/10/56139/using-paramedics-to-help-hospice-patients-avoid-un
Stephanie O'Neill
Southern California Public Radio (KPCC)
10 December 2015
Radio / 3-5 Minutes
A hospice patient's end-of-life desires are most often thwarted when well-meaning loved ones see the patient in some sort of distress. New programs ask first-responder paramedics to work with hospice programs to better honor a person’s end-of-life wishes.
https://wamu.atavist.com/from-institution-to-inclusion
Martin Austermuhle
American University Radio (WAMU)
14 March 2016
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For individuals with developmental disabilities in Washington, D.C., inclusion’s uphill battle, while still happening, has shown results. After the practice of institutionalization ended decades ago, there was a shift to group home living, nonprofit advocacy groups, and job placements. Challenges remain though, like slow-moving bureaucracy, funding, and those still fighting inclusion, but moves toward inclusive jobs and living continue.
http://wyomingpublicmedia.org/post/wyoming-elderly-tough-it-out-even-younger-generations-migrate-away
Melodie Edwards
Wyoming Public Radio
5 June 2015
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These days, most rural communities in the U.S. are elderly communities - 15 percent of Wyoming’s population is over 65 and a high percentage of them live on ranches in small towns. New caregiver programs allow seniors to continue living at home and to keep doing what they are able, with assistance provided if needed.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/08/27/when-prisons-need-to-be-more-like-nursing-homes
Maura Ewing
The Marshall Project
27 August 2015
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The U.S. prison population is aging, which is costly because older inmates need more care. Some states have responded by creating special wards, having the young inmates care for the old, or building nursing homes.
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/08/14/zen-and-the-art-of-dying-well
Courtney E. Martin
The New York Times
14 August 2015
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Patients' last years of life are the most expensive for the health care system. For a fifth of the cost, a Zen hospice program, in San Francisco, is helping those who are dying improve their quality of death by enjoying the present.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/04/28/if-this-was-a-pill-youd-do-anything-to-get-it
Ezra Klein
The Washington Post
28 April 2013
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*Medical research has done wonders to rid populations of diseases; however, the U.S. health care system has failed to appropriate the right resources to Medicare patients with one or more chronic conditions. Health Quality Partners in Doylstown, PA enrolls Medicare patients with at least one chronic illness and hospitalization and sends a trained nurse to see them on a routine basis, whether they are healthy or sick. As a result, the HQP program has reduced hospitalizations and cut Medicare costs.
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