Hospice News
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
And while hospices offer social workers and spiritual care, many families continue to have unmet needs that could impede some patients’ access to hospice. At the same time, the ratio of potential caregivers to seriously ill seniors is expected to shrink to 4-to-1 by 2023, a “sharp decline” from 7-to-1 in 2010, AARP reported.
Hospice News
AUGUST 22, 2022
On average, the tenures of more than a third of hospice chaplains in the United States lasted only one to two years between 2010 and 2019, according to research from Zippia. Hospices currently have no means of reporting chaplain visits on Medicare claims. A shrinking labor pool. Limited opportunities for training.
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GeriPal
JUNE 22, 2023
So in 2010, there were about 150,000 incarcerated people in California. But when we look at people over the age of 55, 55 and older, we had about 11,000 in 2010, and now we have 18,000 people aged 55 and older. Alex: … in other words, than you might be in a Medicare-regulated hospice facility? Michele: Yeah, absolutely.
GeriPal
AUGUST 25, 2022
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. I think in that way, what we see with more than half of Medicare beneficiaries dying under the care of a hospice, that expansion was potentially a good thing.
Home Care Pulse
JUNE 27, 2023
I was working in home Health back when it was first introduced back in 2010, as a way for c m s to not only create structured penalties for hospitals with excessive readmissions, but also to reward and incentivize those providers for effective care coordination and collaboration with post-acute providers across the care continuum.
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