Hospice News

AUGUST 17, 2022

Stretching back more than a decade, a rising number of states have passed laws designed to raise awareness of hospice and palliative care, but to date, few if any have achieved measurable results. Palliative care does that. Five flavors of palliative care laws. The reasons for this run the gamut.

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 28, 2022

Despite the discouraging effects of the caregiver shortage felt by all owners, home care agencies are actually doing better than they have for the last 4 years! Home care providers experienced 7.3% growth seen in 2020. Palliative care 43% . Restorative care 13%. Median revenue also has continued to grow.

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GeriPal

MAY 26, 2022

So if you remember all these vaccine allocation plans where you had the first tier maybe for much older adults or people in long term care facilities or something, and then the second tier might have been people over 50 or people working in highly exposed jobs. The post Should we prioritize the unvaccincated for treatment?

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Hospice News

AUGUST 18, 2022

Maryland-based hospice and palliative care provider Gilchrist recently formed a joint venture with the hospital system Luminis Health to expand the full scope of senior and geriatric care in the state’s southern region. million people), a rise from roughly 22% in 2020, according to the state’s Department of Aging. About 47.6%

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

First, Nisha, a pain and palliative care pharmacist, starts us off with discussing the pharmacology of gabapentin and pregabalin, including common myths like they work on the GABA system (which is weird given the name of the drug). JAGS 2022 Trends in Antipsychotic and Mood Stabilizer Prescribing in Long-Term Care in the U.S.:

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Karl Steinberg, he’s a palliative care doc and a geriatrician. He’s President of National POLST and recent past president of AMDA, the Long-Term Care Association. And a lot of it centers around communication in that acute care setting. Welcome, Karl.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

Randomized trials of ACE units date back to 1996 when Seth Landefeld and colleagues published a study in NEJM showing that they improve basic activities of daily living at discharge and can reduce the frequency of discharge to long-term care institutions. That’s more similar to AAHPM or HPNA on the palliative care side.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary We’ve talked a lot about comprehensive dementia care on the GeriPal podcast but while the evidence is clear that these programs work, the uptake has been limited largely because there hasn’t been a strong financial case for it. laughter] Eric: That was back in 2020. So we had Care Ecosystem.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Talking about palliative care here on this podcast, in our state, gosh, this was in the early ’90s, physician assisted death was on the ballot. The long-term care is being actually provided in the community at a much higher rate than what the formal system provides. That’s where you’ll get started.

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GeriPal

JULY 14, 2022

This was the opening paragraph that I wrote in March of 2020 when introducing a podcast we did with Dr. Jim Wright , the medical director at Canterbury Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center in suburban Richmond. That was his literally his life during those spring months of 2020 and it scared the hell out of me. .

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

He’s a geriatrician and Chair of Public Policy for the California Association of Long-Term Care Medicine. You were on a National Academy of Sciences committee started in 2020? Eric: On improving the quality of nursing home care. The issue is that we don’t have a long-term care system.

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