GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Malaz: One day I was in internal medicine residency and I had to take care of a patient who was admitted from a nursing home with dementia. For me, right now, the worst thing, my nightmare is dying from dementia alone in a nursing home. People start thinking about putting them in a nursing home. 2015, 2016.

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Medicare Caregiver 2024 Social worker 228

Chicago Caregiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

After one of Boyd’s clients, an older African American woman, suffered double strokes, a hospital social worker assumed that she had no family and no private insurance. Hospital administrators placed the woman in a subpar nursing home, at which her health declined. Boyd’s focus has proven ahead of its time.

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Caregiver 2011 2015 Social worker 111

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

I moved to Boston in 2015 to start my PhD and I’ve always worked clinically at MGH during the process, but I was very interested in this notion of measuring function and frailty. Why do we not have more palliative care access in nursing homes? They’re really great, the palliative care social worker and chaplain.

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Palliate ADLS Palliative care Article 281

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

I had looked at a research article that had recently evaluated the prevalence of private equity transactions in the hospice market and noted that there was a pretty substantial uptick in the past decade, and really over the course of say around 2015 to 2019. I just want to highlight some work.

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Hospice Geriatrics Palliative care Definition 199