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4 Ways Home Health Agencies Can Benefit Seniors

Comfort Home Care

Here are a few ways home healthcare services can improve the lives of older adults. In fact, research published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reported that nursing home residents were 14 times more likely to be diagnosed with COVID-19 than those living elsewhere in their community. 4: Maintaining Independence.

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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

GeriPal

That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. And a lot of them never actually improve their ADLs once they’re sent to SNF. Lynn: If they need to go somewhere and receive ADL support and supportive care at the same time, there’s no mechanism to pay for that.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

” But we had a hunch that turned out to be right that by the time these folks were in their fifties, they really had all the geriatric conditions and things we associate with much older. Yeah, this is a geriatrics journal, and generally, if people aren’t over the age of 65, JAGS may not look at it as strongly.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

She trained at UCSF, for geriatrics fellowship. Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome Bruce Leff, who is also a geriatrician, and professor of medicine, and director of the Center for Transformative Geriatric Research, and has been studying hospital-at-home since the mid-nineties. Eric: And Alex, who do we have with us today?

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