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Capital Caring Health to Expand Home-Based Primary Care Service

Hospice News

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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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Michele: Yeah, so in May of 2018, there was an article by Suleika Jaouad in the New York Times Magazine, and they spent about two weeks in our hospice with us learning about the work that’s done. And what she found most compelling was the work of the peer workers. Eric: Wait, so Bonnie Raitt sang a song about hospice in prison?

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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

GeriPal

2018 Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews on ACP. Alex: Also returning Rebecca Sudore, who is professor of medicine at the UCSF in the division of geriatrics, and is a geriatric and palliative care doctor. Alex: What did it changed to after 2018? We can work it out! AlexSmithMD. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

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5 Most Game-Changing Hospice Deals from 2022

Hospice News

An estimated 5 million to 8 million older adults in the United States have one or more mental health conditions, according to research from 2018 supplement to the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS), with projections that this number will triple over the next three decades.

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Palliative Care in India: M.R. Rajagopal

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Raj: 40 years later in 2018, they got together at Astana, the then capital of Kazakhstan, and brought out another resolution, which ask member countries to give control over healthcare to the community. We have 13 social workers, many more social workers than doctors. The post Palliative Care in India: M.R.

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Diverse Caregivers

Chicago Caregiving

The Care Plan also serves Black and Brown communities, says Boyd, who, prior to founding The Care Plan, spent more than a decade in various leadership roles at geriatric care facilities in Chicago. This report paved the way for the RAISE Family Caregivers Act, which passed into law in 2018. This includes the 2.4

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

And so the definition of advance care planning really switched in, I think, 2017, 2018, there was kind of a United States definition and then an international consensus definition. And I think social workers, advanced practitioners, nurses, really feel comfortable giving functional prognoses more so than time-based prognoses.

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