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Care Synergy Becomes National Center for Johns Hopkins’ CAPABLE Program

Hospice News

“We really do see the opportunity to make a difference in people’s lives — especially as people are aging — and you think of the costs associated with leaving their homes and going into assisted living or a long-term care environment,” Tricia Ford, vice president of operations for Care Synergy, told Hospice News. “In

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

And at some point, she was living in assisted living and fell and broke her hip. And we know that a third of Medicare beneficiaries undergo surgery in the last year of life with 18% of those occurring in the last month of life. So we looked at Medicare data, we called out everything that had this 1% cutoff or higher.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

They found that between 2017 and 2030, they think the percentage of the population that’s 65 and up is going to triple in that 15-year period. You can see all of the ways that our society is not geared towards the lived experience of people who’ve encountered structural oppression. Eric: Oh, wow.