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How Palliative Care Could Help Break the SNF-to-Hospital Cycle

Hospice News

As the study explains, nursing homes are incentivized to hospitalize residents eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid because those patients can later return to the nursing home with a higher-paying Medicare benefit before transitioning back to long-term care with lower Medicaid day rates.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

So IU, we have been able to convert our paper, Chris Callahan paper that was published in 2006, the first clinical trial that was positive. Eric: So as long as Medicare is not paying for the… Or Medicaid, I guess, for nursing. Long-term care. For the long term. And the MIND at Home at Hopkins.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

I’ve also been very connected with older people, meaning that what I’ve been culturally taught to believe through cartoons, movies, media, television, et cetera, didn’t match my own reality in terms of the value of older people. Eric: And Susan? And so, we are really the ones that are doing the heavy lift.