GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

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. This study explored nursing home organizational factors and staff perceptions that are associated with the variation in care for residents with advanced dementia.

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Nursing home Feeding Nursing Geriatrics 135

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

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 what is their motivation, Eric?

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Geriatrics Palliative care Palliate Blog 239

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And at some point, she was living in assisted living and fell and broke her hip. And we know that a third of Medicare beneficiaries undergo surgery in the last year of life with 18% of those occurring in the last month of life. So we looked at Medicare data, we called out everything that had this 1% cutoff or higher.

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