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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

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Summary Transcript Summary The comprehensive geriatric assessment is one of the cornerstones of geriatrics. But does the geriatric assessment do anything? Evidence has been mounting about the importance of the geriatric assessment for older adults with cancer, the subject of today’s podcast. Precision medicine?

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Research Finds Home-Based Care Among Top End-of-Life Trajectories for Americans

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Many elderly Americans follow one of three place of care trajectories during the last three years of life, researchers from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, found in a study recently published in BMC Geriatrics. The study spanned data among 199,828 Medicare decedents 50 and older who died in 2018.

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

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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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Patient, Staff Satisfaction Biggest ROIs of Trauma-Informed Hospice Care

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In 2018 Hospice of the Western Reserve launched a Trauma-Informed Care Committee designed to create various training programs across its interdisciplinary workforce, volunteer base and back-office administrative staff. It’s not another task to complete, but rather something that can actually make their work richer.”

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Palliative Care, Health Equity Growing in Medicare Advantage

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Passed in 2018, the Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic Care (CHRONIC) Act widened supportive avenues for social determinants of health among seriously ill populations. Freeland specializes in geriatrics, advance care planning and home-based primary care.

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Capital Caring Health to Expand Home-Based Primary Care Service

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The move toward risk-based reimbursement systems is partly fueling a resurgence in home-based primary care, according to a 2018 study in the journal Geriatrics. A number of hospices have launched their own programs or partnerships with other providers. Patients in the United States received more than 2.2

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Key to the Continuum: Hospice Providers Eye Primary Care Businesses

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We have an existing group of primary care providers, but we’re very aggressively pursuing acquiring as many primary care providers who are already in the geriatric care space, because when you look at most of the risk-based models — the GUIDE model that’s coming out and ACO REACH,” Ponder Stansel said. “[The

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