Hospice News
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
As the study explains, nursing homes are incentivized to hospitalize residents eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid because those patients can later return to the nursing home with a higher-paying Medicare benefit before transitioning back to long-term care with lower Medicaid day rates.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Our task is simple, we are going to be sampling each of these hot chicken wings while we ask Eric and Alex questions related to Palliative care and Geriatrics. Eric: Definitely MAID- Alex: Eric knows, MAID in Canada Eric: Medical Aid In Dying in Canada. They’ve all been laid out for you. Anne: Right. Didn’t work, no.
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GeriPal
MARCH 14, 2024
So, it’s definitely possible in sort of that oldest old category that there may be what we call silent aspiration, where someone aspirates, and then they don’t cough or clear their throat, so you actually wouldn’t even know that they’re aspirating. Raele: Yep, they definitely can be. Raele: Yes, definitely.
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: Sure.
GeriPal
MARCH 2, 2023
J Am Geriatr Soc. JAGS 2022 Trends in Antipsychotic and Mood Stabilizer Prescribing in Long-Term Care in the U.S.: Donovan Maust is a geriatric psychiatrist and health services researcher at the University of Michigan. 2022 Perioperative Gabapentin Use in Older AdultsRevisiting Multimodal Pain Management JAMA IM.
GeriPal
MAY 26, 2022
I think that for me, it seems like an argument of extremes where people definitely wanted to consider it, oftentimes I think because they were angry that people weren’t being vaccinated and then wanted access to resources. Emily: Yeah. I’d actually echo that. So they probably know something that we don’t. Govind: Yeah.
GeriPal
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
The experts settled on a range of key services, from more palliative care focused (e.g. end of life care and advance care planning) to more geriatrics focused (e.g. staff training in person centered care). I was about to say with our system of long-term care, but we do not have a system of long-term care.
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