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Local Couple Pursues Business Dream as New Owners of Always Best Care Charlotte  

Always Best Care Senior Services

Always Best Care of Charlotte has been serving Mecklenburg County residents since 2010 and is one of nine Always Best Care agencies across North Carolina. The Jewells and their growing team of caregivers provide non-medical in-home care and senior living referral services to communities including Charlotte, Matthews and surrounding areas. “The

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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. Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Summary Transcript Summary. Rehabbed to Death. Ruth: Sure.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

Private equity is probably one of the top things that I’m worried about with the future of our field in Palliative care and that because private equity is buying up… And Geriatrics, buying up assisted livings, nursing homes, hospices at an extraordinary rate. And what is their motivation, Eric? Why are they doing this?

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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

GeriPal

Krista Harrison found , to her surprise, that caregivers of people with dementia who died rated hospice as well as similar patients without dementia who died on hospice. That trajectory was in increase from 2000 to say, 2010. I do think the growth of for-profit hospice, so around 2000 to 2010, was beneficial in terms of access.

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Ep.13: How Becoming an Accredited Organization will Help you Build More Partnerships and Increase Referrals

Home Care Pulse

Caregivers have at least three years of tenure, and nearly one out of four caregivers have worked with a long-term companion for at least five years. So we’re coming to really validate all the things that the caregivers are gonna be providing, not a clinical assessment. Today, almost half of a long-term companion’s.