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Key Research Trends: State CON Laws, Dementia Patient Trajectories Reshaping Hospice

Hospice News

Data are reshaping the health care space, and hospice is no exception. Hospice providers have needed a window into access and utilization, as well as how lawmakers are shaping policies around health care. Data on CON laws has taken on new significance as regulators zero in on the hospice space.

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How Value-Based Care, Investors Could Impact Palliative Care Staffing

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Nathan Goldstein, currently professor of geriatrics and palliative medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. We’re seeing more and more nurse training programs, more social work training programs, etc., We’re seeing more and more nurse training programs, more social work training programs, etc.,

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

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In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. Whether in direct practice or in research and academia, we should work together to help Hospice and Palliative Care Social Work meet its full potential. . Transcript.

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Employee Spotlight: Ana

Hospice Promise

Ana has been a Social Worker for three years now. She fell in love with hospice social work during an internship at a local non-profit hospice while completing her undergraduate studies at Northern Arizona University. The post Employee Spotlight: Ana appeared first on Hospice Promise.

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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

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end of life care and advance care planning) to more geriatrics focused (e.g. Alex: And we’re also delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast Kenny Lam, who’s assistant professor of medicine at UCSF in the Division of Geriatrics. It’s what happens in lots of different fields, including geriatrics.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

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Cudjoe’s recent work demonstrating the impact of social isolation on dementia risk , populations at risk , and how our social lives “getting under our skin.” ” Dr. Kotwal’s work showing how social isolation impacts end-of-life health care use , including hospice and acute care.

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Involving the inner circle: Emily Largent, Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint & Anne Kelly

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I’d hazard that maybe half the patients I care for at the intersection of geriatrics and palliative care fall in the gray zone. Invoking this principle, Emily argues for an expanded role for patients in the gray area and their inner circle working together along a spectrum of cooperative decision-making.