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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

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Assisted Living Communities (no longer preferable to call them Assisted Living Facilities, as we learned on the podcast) are…what, exactly? The problem is the tremendous heterogeneity in services offered and quality of care. If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. .

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

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Eric: Definitely MAID- Alex: Eric knows, MAID in Canada Eric: Medical Aid In Dying in Canada. He wants to know what do you guys think about the effect of private equity on hospice and long-term care? Man, we struggle a lot, especially when the great thing about hospices is they help organize a lot of things.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

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If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing home or assisted living facility. Joan: There’s very little bridging between rehabilitative and restorative care and palliative care. Joan: So we abruptly changed care based on something we saw happening over time.

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

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You cannot be in hospice. The intermediary care. So you can go to skilled facility for short rehab- But if you are permanently living in a nursing home. But if you’re in assisted living, yes. If you are independent living, yes. Long-term care. For the long term.

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