1-800-HOSPICE

MARCH 21, 2023

2 Researchers analyzed Medicare records for 18,777 patients who died with indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), aggressive NHL, or mantle cell lymphoma. Compared to all Medicare beneficiaries who died with cancer, patients with lymphoma proved 23% less likely to receive hospice, and they tended to have fewer days in hospice.

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Chicago Caregiving

APRIL 4, 2024

Increased age means increased risk The shot is covered by Medicare. Laurie Archbald-Pannone , Associate Professor of Medicine and Geriatrics, University of Virginia This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. The post Spring for Vaccination appeared first on Chicago Caregiving.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

On today’s podcast we dive into drivers of invasive procedures and hospitalizations in advanced dementia by talking to some pretty brilliant nursing and nurse practitioner researchers focused on dementia, geriatrics, and palliative care in nursing homes: Ruth Palan Lopez, Caroline Stephens, Joan Carpenter, and Lauren Hunt. Ruth: Thank you.

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1-800-HOSPICE

JANUARY 18, 2022

Family members describe this caregiver role as fulfilling, rewarding, and an important part of the process. It does not help that caregivers often feel guilty for needing or wanting help and resultantly avoid the help they need. In 1984, there were only 31 Medicare-certified home hospice agencies. Caregiver Education in Hospice.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

How do caregivers fit into this? Alex Smith: And we’re delighted to welcome Tamryn Gray, who is an oncology and blood marrow transplant nurse by training and is a palliative care and caregiving researcher at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School. How high is too high? Happy to be here.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

My clinical experiences have been foundational to my growth, but my aging health policy experience with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and my time with The California Endowment were equally important. Additionally, I draw on my own personal experience as a caregiver to my older adult father, which started when I was twelve.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

We serve about 60,000 folks a day, 26,000 caregivers, 17 states at a couple 100 offices. I’m an internist by training and practice for close to 25 years now in a spectrum of medicine from hospital-based care to more recently, geriatrics, hospice, and palliative care. We are an in-home care company.

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Chicago Caregiving

MARCH 9, 2022

TV volume wars can be daunting, but the war to lower the volume can be won with the aid of technology, says Ann Hollander, founder of Options for Aging , a geriatric care management company based in Wilmette. Some people find hearing aids unaffordable — they’re expensive and are not covered by Medicare.

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Comfort Home Care

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

In fact, research published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reported that nursing home residents were 14 times more likely to be diagnosed with COVID-19 than those living elsewhere in their community. By staying in the home, seniors are exposed to significantly fewer communicable diseases and related health risks.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Because I don’t think we think about that so much in palliative care, but we do in geriatrics. ” Alex: So I’m sure there’s some element of difference between what the patient might say and what their caregiver might say about this issue. Eric: Does Medicare generally cover driving rehab specialists?

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Alex: And we are delight to welcome Lindsey Yourman, who is a geriatrician, she’s a longtime friend and mentee, and is now a peer and is a key component of the ePrognosis working group and helped originate the ideas that led to ePrognosis and she’s now San Diego County’s Chief Geriatrics Officer. Welcome to GeriPal, Lindsey.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Krista Harrison found , to her surprise, that caregivers of people with dementia who died rated hospice as well as similar patients without dementia who died on hospice. She’s Professor and Vice Chair for Research at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine. Melissa: Thank you.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Malaz: I love it.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

My entire career has been taken care of in primary hospitalists and palliative underserved populations, either dual-eligible, Medicaid, and Medicare or community health centers, so I’ve always worked in that environment. Emotional support was offered in 276 visits and 88 caregivers were provided with respite, things like that.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

Attendee 11: I am hopeful that the model of care that we deliver is what our patients and their caregivers want, need and deserve. laugher] Alex: I’m hopeful that there will be some people listening to this who are the future content creators in the geriatrics and palliative care space, and I look forward to what they have to offer.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

2021 Association of Hospice Profit Status With Family Caregivers’ Reported Care Experiences. Eric: Lack of a caregiver. Joseph: Lack of the caregiver. Lauren: And looking in the Medicare data, you cannot figure out when a hospice changed ownership. JAMA IM 2021 Hospice Acquisitions by Profit-Driven Private Equity Firms.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

We’re also delight to welcome Carla Perissinotto, who is a geriatrician palliative care doc at UCSF in the division of geriatrics. I moved to Baltimore in 2015 and did clinical fellowship in geriatrics. This paper was published recently in the Journal of American Geriatric Society Lead. Welcome back to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Medicare, on their brochures, frail hands. In that, again this is GeriPal Podcast, geriatrics falls into the same boat. Eric: But one of them is, it looks like a caregiver and a patient both smiling, looking at pictures. You need to show them how palliative care could help them live better. And frail hands does not do it.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It’s not the tool itself, it’s that doctors are handing out POLSTs to people at they’re welcome to Medicare or annual wellness exams. And I think so many of the problems we see with POLST are problems that have to do with people misusing it. People who just want to default treatment. Don’t give that person a POLST.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

Medicare doesn’t hurt palliative care services. We look for creative ways, but hospice has its own reimbursement source through Medicare. Hospice takes care of people with life-threatening illnesses that are no longer wanting treatment. That’s how I see the main difference. There’s financial difference.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

what happens at home, do you need a caregiver, what happens if they need something like imaging? She trained at UCSF, for geriatrics fellowship. It was a fantastic opportunity for us to understand what this would look like under Medicare. Eric: Do you need a caregiver? How is it financed and what comes next?

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GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

Advocate for the CONNECT for Health Act, which would permanently expand access to telehealth for Medicare beneficiaries: [link] Much more on this podcast, including puzzling out who the characters in Space Oddity by David Bowie might represent in an extended analogy to telehealth. Alex: Hope so. Alex: And that was during the pandemic.

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