Definition End-of-life care Medicare Nursing home 
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.
Hospice News
MAY 5, 2023
If regulators were to extend the timeframe for eligibility, patients could reap the full benefits of end-of-life care, the two executives said. Some of it was definitely just trying to find new ideas in a way to be able to get into facilities and doctors’ offices. It was still a very virtual world.
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Hospice News
OCTOBER 28, 2022
The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of senior housing, skilled nursing, home health, and hospice care. Early on I knew I wanted to work in health care and needed a career in which I could find meaning and purpose. What drew you to this industry?
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Eric: Definitely MAID- Alex: Eric knows, MAID in Canada Eric: Medical Aid In Dying in Canada. Eric: One out of six hospices, so there is financial concern, not just again with hospices, nursing homes, and now physician groups. ” And, he said, “End of life care.” Alex: That one’s easy.
GeriPal
JUNE 8, 2023
When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common. How high is too high?
GeriPal
JUNE 22, 2023
And people are getting life sentences. They’re going to get older, they’re going to struggle with geriatric conditions, and they’re going to need palliative services and eventually end-of-life care. Alex: … in other words, than you might be in a Medicare-regulated hospice facility?
GeriPal
JANUARY 18, 2024
Summary Transcript Summary The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. Eric: Just for the aging population, what about long-term care? And the nurse can’t dose it, they have to individually dose it.
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