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Palliative-Behavioral Health Collaborations Benefit Patients with Serious Mental Illnesses

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Roughly 5 to 8 million older adults nationwide have one or more mental health conditions, according to research from the supplement Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS). That really plays into pain, symptom and medication management in these patients’ experiences.” This number is projected to triple over the next three decades.

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Keys to Effective Palliative Care Training Models

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(NYSE: HCA) and the University of Central Florida (UCF) launched a graduate fellowship program in palliative medicine , which closely followed a similar program rolled out by Ohio’s Hospice and Kettering Health in 2021.

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What Hospice VBID’s Ending Means for Palliative Care

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This included the addition of the hospice component in 2021, which was designed to test coverage of those services through Medicare Advantage. Launched in 2017 by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), the VBID demonstration tested new approaches to reimbursement across a variety of health care settings.

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‘It’s Where We’re at Right Now’: US Prison System Struggling to Keep Up with Growing Need for Palliative Care

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The population that is over 55 — considered geriatric inside prisons because people’s life spans are much shorter there — is nearly one-third of the prison population,” Gorlock told local news. A bill was approved in 2021 that issued $7.2 That is not because there is a crime wave by senior citizens.

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Incarcerated Seniors Lack Access to Hospice Care

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Part of the understaffing issues is that geriatric populations are swelling “dramatically” in prison settings, with more seniors facing the end of life behind bars without access to hospice services, Deal stated. The California-based humanitarian organization helps train incarcerated peer caregivers in providing end-of-life care support.

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

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Driving these conversations is the need to lighten the nation’s heavy health care spend, which in 2021 reached $4.3 The World Health Organization (WHO) projects that the number of dementia patients worldwide will rise 40% between 2021 and 2050. trillion , according to the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

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Palliative Care an ‘Important Piece’ of Quality in Oncology Programs

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million people in the United States were diagnosed with cancer in 2021, while roughly 608,570 individuals died from the disease that year, according to a report from the American Cancer Society. Cancer patients can have a wide range of different diagnoses that come with varying prognoses. An estimated 1.9