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Long-Term Care Insurance and Senior In-Home Care

Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

As individuals and families plan for the future, one crucial consideration is the potential need for long-term care. Long-term care insurance has emerged as a valuable tool to ensure that individuals can access the care they need without depleting their savings.

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Reason for referral: Documentation tips for therapists

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

Individualize the RFR to the specific patient’s circumstances rather than providing general information that could apply to multiple individuals. For long-term residents, incorporate a timeline of the functional decline or expected progression of the disease process to provide context for therapy interventions.

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No place like community: Discharge planning beyond the PHE

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

Home assessments should move well beyond home type, kitchen set-up, hallway width, bedroom and ADL analysis and shift into our patients’ “real world” in whatever sense neighborhoods and community are important to them. Is the emergency contact information present and accessible? What about travel?

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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

GeriPal

Randomized trials of ACE units date back to 1996 when Seth Landefeld and colleagues published a study in NEJM showing that they improve basic activities of daily living at discharge and can reduce the frequency of discharge to long-term care institutions. But if ACE units are so great, why do so few hospitals have them?

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What the 7 Most Shocking Home Care Trends Mean for the Industry in 2022

Home Care Pulse

L ooking for the latest news in home care? The only place where industry experts reveal their secrets to help fellow agency owners like you make more informed, data-driven business decisions. We’ve surveyed over 760 home care providers, representing over 1,461 locations, to find out exactly what is and isn’t working in home care.

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Ep.17: How Home Care Agencies Can Reduce Hospital Readmissions

Home Care Pulse

Laura Coyle ( 07:01 ): You know, they are going in at the start of care, looking at the home. Laura Coyle ( 07:01 ): You know, they are going in at the start of care, looking at the home. And there absolutely may be with long-term care insurance, with Medicare Advantage opportunities, with va, with Medicaid.