End-of-life care Geriatrics Nursing Social worker 
Shining Light Hospice
MARCH 27, 2023
Hospice services can be provided at home or in inpatient facilities with staff experienced in end-of-life care. The Role of Medical Professionals in Hospice Care Primary care physicians are often the first point of contact for patients seeking hospice services.
Hospice News
JUNE 2, 2022
.” They want to know how quickly we can have a goals-of-care conversation with the patient. Do you have a doctor and a social worker that can work on, for instance, Medicaid eligibility. Providing palliative care in the home at a break-even point, it’s nearly impossible. That’s the reality.
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GeriPal
DECEMBER 14, 2023
More recently Sharon Kaufman ‘s book And a Time to Die described the ways in which physicians, nurses, hospital systems, and payment mechanisms influenced the hour and manner of patient’s deaths. Eric and I are joined today on this podcast by Anne Kelly palliative care social worker to discuss these issues with Liz.
GeriPal
JANUARY 20, 2023
Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. We have Alice Bonner, who’s Chair of the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition.
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. It was built in 1955, so it wasn’t designed for a geriatric population.
GeriPal
MARCH 7, 2024
It was started by a social worker who really saw some gaps in care with those at end-of-life, particularly those with chronic long-term illness, having important conversations. We do conversations on goals of care and advanced care planning as well. What the social workers are … Eric: Yeah.
Hospice News
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Furthermore, we also developed certifications of the people who run the programs in the house, career-specific certifications for hospice operations, home health operations, health care sales, and even ongoing coaching and support. The question for me is why wouldn’t it? How can we promote this?”
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