Hospice News
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
A dearth of coordination or integration between rehab teams and palliative care teams routinely forces some patients into a cycle between the hospital and the nursing home in their last year of life. These results appeared in a 2019 New England Journal of Medicine study titled “Rehabbed to Death.”
Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
increase in home-based care delivery. Researchers analyzed data on hospice acquisitions between 2013 and 2020 to compare changes in sites of care or patient population compared to other for-profits that did not undergo a transaction. rise in dementia patients and a 5.3% of terminal diagnoses in 2020, while cancer accounted for 7.2%.
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Hospice News
SEPTEMBER 21, 2022
Patients in nursing homes on average were in hospice for 109 days of care in 2019, compared to 95 days among those receiving services in a private residence and 161 days in assisted living. Rosen in 2019 co-founded the bipartisan Comprehensive Care Caucus with Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.).
AJN Off the Charts
APRIL 7, 2023
There have been a couple of recent studies that confirm what I have observed as a palliative care nurse practitioner (NP) in an academic medical center: that there’s still a tendency to pursue very aggressive care with older people with cancer. Aggressive care common in nursing homes at end of life. Nearly 10% of the 1.5
Hospice News
MARCH 29, 2023
Researchers from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Ohio analyzed data for cancer patients between 2013 to 2017, finding that aggressive care in the last 30 days of life was more common among nursing home residents than community-dwelling older adults, at 64% versus 58%, respectively.
GeriPal
APRIL 27, 2023
Furthermore, direction to external websites is not an endorsement from AAHPM or HPNA, or the Annual Assembly. Palliative Care the Next Generation: How the Service May Grow and Evolve AccentCare , a portfolio company of private equity firm Advent International, is another example. We’ve got a very large palliative care practice,” Rodgers told PCN.
GeriPal
MARCH 3, 2022
In a separate study in Chest , Lauren found pre-ICU frailty was associated with post-ICU disability and new nursing home admission. So, maybe the person with advanced dementia is coming in from the nursing home and nobody can find the living will from however many years ago. That will be the last one in his life.
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