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Comprehensive Community Hospice
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Comprehensive Community Hospice
Comprehensive Community Hospice
Comprehensive Community Hospice at Parker Jewish Institute provides comfort, relief, and peace of mind to individuals with advanced or life-limiting illness and their families. We are an intimate and unique program that provides personalized care to ensure your comfort, enhance your quality of life, preserve your dignity, and respect your choices. As an illness progresses, it can be difficult to make choices about care or know what to expect. Our compassionate team can help you explore your options. We respect your right to choose which services are best, as well as when and where you receive care. Working with you, your care team will partner with your caregivers and personal doctor to develop a care plan tailored to your needs and goals.
Your services may include:
- Medical care, including all medication, supplies, and equipment necessary to manage your symptoms and relieve physical discomfort.
- Guidance on what to expect as your condition changes.
- Counseling for emotional and spiritual support.
- Help with practical issues, such as advance care planning, medical decision-making, and preparing for the future.
You’ll have 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week access to care and services. We’re here to support you however and whenever you need, including connecting you to services that the Parker Jewish Institute has long been a leader in providing.
Our Comprehensive Community Hospice Team
Hospice services are tailored to meet each individual’s needs and goals. Your care will be managed and carried out by a dedicated team of experts with specialized hospice training and experience, but you and your loved ones will always direct your care.
Working in collaboration with your doctor, your Comprehensive Community Hospice team may include:
- Registered nurse, who coordinates your services and oversees your day-to-day care.
- Hospice specialty aide.
- Social worker.
- Registered dietitian.
- Spiritual care counselor.
- Volunteers.
- A physician, who is board-certified in hospice and palliative medicine.
We can also provide grief support for anyone who is experiencing grief after loss. We offer a thirteen-month program for families and friends, following the loss of a loved one.
For more information about Parker's Hospice Care services please call 516-586-1575 or 718-289-2800.
Opportunities to Participate in Clinical Research Study
While Alzheimer’s disease can be devastating to patients, families, and their caregivers, clinical trials are looking at new ways to fight this disease and are great opportunities to participate and make a difference.
Hope Through Research
The Rethink-ALZ trial is now open to qualifying participants. The trials last for 52 weeks. If you enroll into this trial, you will receive either the oral study drug or placebo twice a day. A placebo looks like the study drug but has no impact on the person taking it. There is no cost to the patient to participate in the Rethink-ALZ trial or for any of the study-related procedures. No hospitalization is required. If you or a loved one are interested in participating in one of these studies, the following criteria must be met:
- Be ages 50 to 87 years old.
- Be diagnosed with, or have a suspected clinical diagnosis of, Alzheimer’s disease.
- Have a gradual change in memory for six months or more.
- Have a family member or loved one who can be available as a study partner during the entire study.
- Be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 or have had a previous COVID-19 infection.
Other criteria will apply.
Paving a Better Future
Agitation associated with Alzheimer’s dementia can be difficult to manage and can be very challenging for patients and their loved ones. The ASPECTTM clinical research study is evaluating an investigational drug for agitation associated with Alzheimer’s dementia and participants are needed. Participants will not have to pay for the study drug (the investigational drug or placebo), study supplies, study visits, or study tests. Health insurance is not required. To be eligible, participants must:
- Be between the ages of 50 and 90.
- Have a diagnosis of probable Alzheimer’s dementia.
- Have moderate-to-severe agitation that interferes with their daily life.
- Have a reliable caregiver who is able to comply with all study procedures
.Other criteria will apply.
For more information or to enroll in a Clinical Trial, please call us at 718-289-2103 or email us at research@parkerinstitute.org
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