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Hospice News
JANUARY 27, 2023
For hospices, incomplete plans of care are among the most common items cited on surveys, according to Susan Mills, senior program director for the Home Health, Hospice and Home Infusion Accreditation Programs for the Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC). I know why a lot of these happen; it is because they’re so stressed now.
AT Home Care & Hospice
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
As Mills said, “Evidence shows that age, frailty, chronic disease load, and ADL dependency are predictive of mortality, hospitalization, and total cost.” Mills said, “An exciting project we have worked on involves a claims-based assessment to detect frailty. Addressing frailty is essential on many fronts.
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GeriPal
APRIL 14, 2022
And I was seeing patients that were coming from Eastern Kentucky for addiction treatment, seeing patients that were coming out of these pill mills and just cared for a tremendous number of people who had opioid use disorder or opioid addiction. And that’s a lot easier if all providers were X waivered too. Eric: It’s scary.
Palliverse
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
I still found it good to have a refresher on the importance of self-care for homo sapiens in general, but especially so for us palliative care practitioners. The presenters pointed out the great resources available from Palliative Care Australia which have been produced by Palliverse’s own Dr Jason Mills.
GeriPal
JULY 27, 2023
More or less than the general population? Cathy: So the sleep hygiene, it does as Brienne, I’m hoping that you’re picking the nuance of what she’s saying I think is that sleep hygiene can be very helpful in people who have sort of your run-of-the-mill mild symptoms. So it’s generally a combination.
GeriPal
MARCH 31, 2022
Marilyn is joined by Guy Micco to talk about why poetry is important in general, why it’s important in medical or nursing education, and why it’s important for people who care for older adults. Marilyn: I was teaching TS Elliott’s Four Quartets at Mills College one year. Why read a poem at a time like this?
GeriPal
JULY 20, 2023
Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back to GeriPal podcast, Brooke Calton, who is a palliative care physician and faculty at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and is also newly the Medical Director of palliative care at Devoted Health. And there are lots of discussions and have been lawsuits about access to that in general.
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