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How Hospices Are Diversifying Their Services in 2024

Hospice News

Palliative care, pediatric end-of-life care and end-of-life doula (EOLD) services are top of mind for hospices that are diversifying their services in 2024. There’s going to be so much change around value-based care coming in some way, shape or form for hospices,” Kudner told Hospice News.

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HopeHealth’s Dr. Leah McDonald Sees ‘System-Wide Embedding’ of Palliative Skills

Hospice News

A systematic overhaul of the nation’s health care education programs is needed to ensure that future clinicians are prepared to provide palliative and hospice care amid rising demand, according to Dr. Leah McDonald of HopeHealth. McDonald is a hospice and palliative care physician at HopeHealth.

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Incoming Samaritan CEO Phillip Heath: Reduce Dependence on Medicare

Hospice News

A veteran of the senior services sector, Health has spent his 30-year career as a leader of hospice, senior housing, long term care, and PACE programs, in addition to a stint as a health care lobbyist. I also think that we have to look at the potential new relationships out there with long term care.

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Paying Your Care Staff More Won’t Keep Them Around Longer—Here are 4 Solutions that Will, According to the Experts

Home Care Pulse

98% of agencies were negatively impacted by care staff shortages last year, meaning only 2% of providers are confident that they have adequate staff to run their agency—the worst it’s been in 3 years. The Ultimate Guide to Caregiver Training in 2022. Yet it also ranks among the top 5 industries with the highest workforce shortages.

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RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary Last week we talked about a trial of a nurse and social worker outpatient palliative care intervention published in JAMA. I think the last time we had you on was 2022. And you had higher rates of hospice discharges, higher rates of DNR orders. Eric: Thank you for the song. Eric: Okay.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

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And these care navigator, they can be community health worker with just 12 years of education. They can be a- Diane: Social worker. Malaz: Social worker, anybody. So a dozen state, they have to be trained obviously, and they have to be able to provide the comprehensive dementia care model.

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Diverse Caregivers

Chicago Caregiving

After her wife was diagnosed with stage IV cancer in 2011, Marsha Wetzel spent the next two years taking care of Judy, her partner of 30 years, until Judy entered hospice care. Suddenly, Wetzel, an older woman with a disability, was in need a place where she herself could receive long-term care.

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