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Early Telepalliative Care Can Reduce Caregiver Burden, Improve Quality

Hospice News

The JAMA study examined outcomes of 1,250 adults with advanced lung cancer receiving palliative care across 22 health care organizations in the United States from June 14, 2018 to May 4, 2023. Satisfaction with care for the caregivers and for the patients [showed] no differences.

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Shingles: The Disease, the Vaccine, and the Role of Nurses in Vaccination Conversations

AJN Off the Charts

Track missed appointments and conduct outreach Integrating Vaccination into Routine Care Nurses in primary care, geriatrics, and specialty clinics can: Review vaccine history during annual wellness visits Integrate shingles vaccination with other adult immunizations (e.g., References Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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Innovative Approaches to Enhance Day surgery follow-up and care of Older Adults

Evidence-Based Nursing - BMJ blogs

While this method is cost-effective and easy to implement, it has limitations, particularly for the geriatric population. Virtual wards are already trialled and implemented for medical and geriatric patients, involve remote monitoring with health devices and telehealth platforms after discharge from the hospital. Philipsson, A.,

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Hospice Researchers Seek to Untangle Possible Relationships Between Tax Status and Outcomes

Hospice News

Private equity transactions represented half of all home health and hospice deals in 2018 and 2019, resulting in a 300% increase in patients enrolled under PE-backed providers, according to research published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine. But research has found that the tide is shifting. Morrison is also the Ellen and Howard C.

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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

GeriPal

We covered: The first parody song I wrote, for AGS 2018 in Orlando , about this article by Nancy Schoenborn on how to discuss stopping cancer screening. We’re representing the American Geriatric Society today and we are delighted to be here in the podcast. Alex joined in 2018. Medina Walpole. Annie 01:42 Hi, everyone.

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Hospice Quality Concerning in Assisted Living Facilities

Hospice News

Researchers from Ohio University and the University of Rochester recently examined Medicare claims and Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) data of 51,303 assisted living residents who received hospice care from 2018 to 2019.

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Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson

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Alex 00:54 And Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson, who’s a social behavioral scientist and a fellow in the T32 Research Fellowship at the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. And as I mentioned, this study was proposed in 2018 before COVID The world is vastly different today than it was in 2018. Danny 00:52 Thank you very much.

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