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Look
Homeward.
- George
Dimiris, Ph.D. We
are working both with urban and rural populations. Unfortunately,
as it is the case in other states, ethnic minority populations
do not utilize hospice services to a great extent and we
work with the existing client pool of our collaborating
agencies. The challenges of implementing telehospice in
rural populations include the lack of infrastructure
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- Carol
Pearce, RN.,
of Alacare Home Healthcare and Hospice (Birmingham, AL)
provides an interesting description of another barrier to
hospice care- family members preventing a loved one from
entering hospice care-and shows an interesting use of telehospice
to help the home telehealth patient transition to hospice
care.
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-
Charlene
D. Bergstretter, Director of Planning and Program
Development, at Lehigh Valley Home Health Services (Allentown,
PA), indicates how telehospice allowed a patient who preferred
to live at home, independently, and not have his adult children
move in, could do so with the assistance of a HomMed telemonitoring
system.
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