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CommuniCare Health Services Acquires Transitional Care Company Stonerise

Hospice News

Founded in 1984, CommuniCare Health Services is a family-owned company that provides post-acute services including skilled nursing, assisted living, independent living, behavioral health and long-term care. The company was established in 2009. Hospice utilization among Medicare decedents in West Virginia reached 43.6%

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Care Synergy Becomes National Center for Johns Hopkins’ CAPABLE Program

Hospice News

The hospice, palliative care, and home health network Care Synergy has become the national center for the Community Aging in Place, Advancing Better Living for Elders (CAPABLE) program, developed by Johns Hopkins University. The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing launched CAPABLE in 2009 and since then has overseen the program nationally.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing home or assisted living facility. The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Summary Transcript Summary. Rehabbed to Death. Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.