Hospice News

JULY 11, 2022

million seniors who reside in Illinois are 85 or older, and 40% of Medicare beneficiaries in the state have four or more chronic conditions, according to HCCI. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is replacing the Global and Professional Direct Contracting (GPDC) model with ACO REACH. About 12% of the 2.1

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

There is a lot to digest with these draft clinical guidelines but the big change from the 2018 guideline is moving Alzheimers to a biological diagnosis (biomarker evidence only) not just for a research framework but now from a clinical one. The field of geriatrics has been, I would say, somewhat negative on these drugs. So I agree.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Because I don’t think we think about that so much in palliative care, but we do in geriatrics. Eric: For those of you don’t know, Emmy was on our podcast back in 2018 … man, pre-COVID times. As is the case for many issues in geriatrics: some of the time, not all the time. Is it you, Emmy? Emmy: It is.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. I want to say like 2017, 2018, something like that. Alex: Yeah.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

She has won the N H P C O Hospice Innovator Award in 2018, and she was the 2015 International Humanitarian Woman of the Year. Medicare doesn’t hurt palliative care services. We look for creative ways, but hospice has its own reimbursement source through Medicare. Speaker 2 ( 00:40 ): Mm-hmm. , What do you think Barbara?

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Today’s podcast is a follow up to our 2018 podcast with Randy Curtis about the Jumpstart intervention. I wonder if we can just start off just going back a little bit because we had Randy on back in 2018 talking about Jumpstart, priming patients to do goals of care conversations. Am I summarizing that right?

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