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Voices: ??Dr. Khai Nguyen, National Medical Director, Geriatrician, CHAP

Hospice News

In this Voices interview, Hospice News sits down with Dr. Khai Nguyen , National Medical Director, Geriatrician for CHAP, to talk about the age-friendly care movement. Additionally, I draw on my own personal experience as a caregiver to my older adult father, which started when I was twelve. This article is sponsored by CHAP.

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Provider Partnerships Driving Palliative Care Growth

Hospice News

The interdisciplinary team approach involved in palliative care allows for stronger care coordination and cost reductions, and also opens doors to caregiver support and advance care planning services, he stated. Katz Professor and chair of the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Mount Sinai.

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Evaluating Alternate Payment Models in Hospice and Palliative Care

Hospice News

This article is based on a Hospice News discussion with Daniel Schwartz, Chief Strategy Officer at Elara Caring, Devin Woodley, VP of Managed Care Contracting and B2B Sales at VNS Health, Gavin Baumgardner, VP and National Medical Director for Complex and Palliative care at Amedisys, and Anthony Spano, Director of Client Development at Netsmart.

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Public Facing Education via Social Media: A Podcast with Julie McFadden, Matt Tyler, Sammy Winemaker and Hsien Seow

GeriPal

He’s a palliative care doctor and he is Medical Director of Palliative Care at Ascension Illinois Palliative Care. And one of the most common things that I would hear from patients, family caregivers would be I’d ask them at the end of the encounter, “What questions do you have?” I don’t look.

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

GeriPal

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. There’s a book called The 36-hour day for dementia caregivers. That’s the family care partner, caregiver. Diane: Huge.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

2021 Association of Hospice Profit Status With Family Caregivers’ Reported Care Experiences. Reading Ira’s article, it essentially was the VITAS Medical Director job description. Eric: Lack of a caregiver. Joseph: Lack of the caregiver. JAMA IM 2021 Hospice Acquisitions by Profit-Driven Private Equity Firms.

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Conscientous Provision of MAID and Abortion: Robert Brody, Lori Freedman, Mara Buchbinder

GeriPal

Eric: This is a geriatrics and palliative care podcast and we’re talking about reproductive rights, abortions, looks like we’re talking about medical aid in dying, all encompassing this question of rights of conscious. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Mara. Mara: Thanks for having me.

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