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What Training Managers, Hospice, & Healthcare Facilities Miss about End of Life Care

Home Care Pulse

Learn More As managers working in hospice, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living, and even senior communities, part of our job is to educate our employees in end of life care. As mentioned above, most of our staff will not know there is a difference in care.

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

GeriPal

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. For a deeper dive, check out some of these other studies and resources we talked about in the podcast: The Influence of Nursing Home Culture on the Use of Feeding Tubes. Rehabbed to Death.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

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Private equity is probably one of the top things that I’m worried about with the future of our field in Palliative care and that because private equity is buying up… And Geriatrics, buying up assisted livings, nursing homes, hospices at an extraordinary rate. ” And, he said, “End of life care.”

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

Really, a smart and caring woman. And at some point, she was living in assisted living and fell and broke her hip. You might be able to extend your life a little bit, but at what cost? You may end up there indefinitely. You’re not going to end up going back home after the surgery. Eric: Yeah.