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Geriatric Nursing: A Specialty in Need

Nurse.com

population ages, geriatric nurses and nurse practitioners (NPs) can make an impact. The need for geriatric nurses can be explained simply by looking at data highlighting an aging United States. Geriatric nurses are critical to our healthcare workforce.”. Attention for geriatrics. Necessities for geriatrics.

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Solutions That Make Sense: Why Hospice Benefit Reform Needs to Incorporate Concurrent Care

Hospice News

of hospice enrollees in 2020, compared to 7.5% In 2020, the average hospice length of stay for individuals with Alzheimer’s, Parkison’s or other dementias disease reached 143 days, NHPCO reported. Patients with dementia-related illnesses represented 18.5% for cancer, according to NHPCO.

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Executive Moves at UnitedHealth Group, Treasure Coast Hospice

Hospice News

Crouch in 2016 became a home care and assisted living facilities physician at the organization. Prior to joining the organization, Cannone served as regional clinical advisor for the Ohio Department of Aging since 2020. Cannone as its new executive vice president and COO.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

Alex: And we are delight to welcome Lindsey Yourman, who is a geriatrician, she’s a longtime friend and mentee, and is now a peer and is a key component of the ePrognosis working group and helped originate the ideas that led to ePrognosis and she’s now San Diego County’s Chief Geriatrics Officer. Welcome to GeriPal, Lindsey.

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5 Most Game-Changing Hospice Deals from 2022

Hospice News

At this point, it’s a little bit more geared towards hospice, and it’s still fair to say the pipeline is skewed towards hospice,” Carlisle said at the Bank of America Home Care Conference. “We million respectively in 2020 alone, according to a study published in The Lancet. million and 76.2

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POLST Evidence and Update: Kelly Vranas, Abby Dotson, Karl Steinberg, and Scott Halpern

GeriPal

Additional links mentioned in the podcast: Recent JGIM article on POLST in California nursing homes, hospitalization, and nursing home care Karl’s GeriPal post on appropriate use of POLST Enjoy! And a lot of it centers around communication in that acute care setting. I think it was Bob Lee’s 2020 JAGS paper.

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Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. Improving nursing home quality. Eric: On improving the quality of nursing home care.