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Palliative Care, Health Equity Growing in Medicare Advantage

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The CHRONIC Act allowed Medicare Advantage payers to expand coverage of supplemental benefits such as home-based palliative care, meal delivery services, transportation assistance, adult day services, caregiving support. This is a rise from 180 MA plans in 2023 offering palliative services and 64 MA plans in 2020.

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Evaluating Alternate Payment Models in Hospice and Palliative Care

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This discussion took place on September 7, 2023 during the Hospice News ELEVATE Conference. We serve about 60,000 folks a day, 26,000 caregivers, 17 states at a couple 100 offices. The article below has been edited for length and clarity. Anthony Spano: I wanted to open with a quick story. We are an in-home care company.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

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Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. And I told her I quote LaVera every year when I teach the geriatrics fellows, the palliative care fellows, I would love for you to tell the story that I quote because you experienced it. Lexy: Great to be here.

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The Nature of Suffering: BJ Miller and Naomi Saks

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Though his narrow definition of suffering as injured or threatened personhood has been critiqued , the central concept was a motivating force for many of us to enter the fields of geriatrics and palliative care, Eric and I included. 2023 Dec 20:S1524-9042(23)00202-3. Pain Manag Nurs. doi: 10.1016/j.pmn.2023.11.004. 2023.11.004.

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

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This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. There’s a book called The 36-hour day for dementia caregivers. It requires a fight. It’s been going on for many decades now.

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Negotiation and Dispute Resolution: A Podcast with Lee Lindquist and Alaine Murawski

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We invited her back along with Alaine to talk about their work around negotiation training, including their work on NegotiAge , an online, AI based training intervention designed to teach negotiation skills to caregivers. . Geriatrics. Conflicts Experienced by Caregivers of Older Adults With the Health-Care System.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

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2021 Association of Hospice Profit Status With Family Caregivers’ Reported Care Experiences. JAMA IM 2023 A shout-out to my NPR episode on 1A titled the “State of Hospice Care” DISCLAIMER While we filmed in Montreal during the Annual Assembly, all opinions expressed in this podcast are independent of AAHPM and HPNA, or the Annual Assembly.

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