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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. This study explored nursing home organizational factors and staff perceptions that are associated with the variation in care for residents with advanced dementia. Transcript.

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Medicare Claims for Unrelated Services Put Hospices at Risk

Hospice News

CMS has taken a stance that essentially all the care needed by a terminally ill patient should be covered through the benefit. Between 2010 and 2019 Medicare paid a total of $6.6 Services and items provided to patients in nursing homes are a particular area of risk for hospices, she said.

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Realizing a Dream: How I Earned My Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing

Nurse.com

Stage three: Hashing a new plan Since our girls were now in school, I took a job as a nursing assistant at a nursing home. In those days, the nursing home trained nursing assistants and you didn’t have to be certified. I worked as a nursing assistant for a couple of years, then I was off to LPN school.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

He wants to know what do you guys think about the effect of private equity on hospice and long-term care? Eric: One out of six hospices, so there is financial concern, not just again with hospices, nursing homes, and now physician groups. We have on that podcast about re-imagining long-term care.

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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

GeriPal

He wrote a book titled “ Psychiatric consultation in long term care ” that has a strengths based approach to staging dementia (how cool is that). Judy Long, MDiv, BCC , palliative care chaplain and educator at UCSF and caregiver. When was that, 2010? Eric: 2010. You will actually have more energy.”

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2022: What will the technical experts say?

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

First: Technical Expert Panel (TEP) for the Refinement of Long-Term Care Hospital (LTCH), Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility (IRF), Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF)/Nursing Facility (NF), and Home Health (HH) Function Measures. She can be reached at rkinder@broadriverrehab.com.

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