Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Post-affiliation, the combined hospice will offer hospice, geriatric and palliative care, as well as pediatric services, grief care, dementia support, music therapy, veterans’ program and culturally specific initiatives. About 25,271 Medicare decedents in 2021 elected the hospice benefit, according to the U.S.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary What does the future hold for geriatrics? Historically, answers generally lamented the ever increasing need for geriatrics without a corresponding growth in the number of specialists in the field. On today’s podcast, we are going to do a deep dive on the future of geriatrics with three amazing guests.

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Aging Life Care Association

JUNE 6, 2024

Founded in 1985 by a handful of geriatric care social workers in New York City, the organization has grown to be nationwide and includes educated professionals … Continue reading LGBTQIA Care Managers in Care Management → The post LGBTQIA Care Managers in Care Management appeared first on Aging Life Care Association.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Landers is a board-certified physician in hospice and palliative care, as well as family and geriatric medicine. Prior to that he was CEO of the home health and hospice provider Visiting Nurse Association (VNA) Health Group Inc. He also holds a masters degree in public health policy and management.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 22, 2024

Recipients of home health and hospice distinction must demonstrate their ability to proactively ensure patient safety and provide goal-concordant care, in addition to implementing four evidence-based practices in geriatric care known as the “4Ms”: What Matters, Medication, Mentation and Mobility.

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GeriPal

MARCH 4, 2024

The post #HPMParty is returning to Phoenix during the 2024 AAHPM/HPNA meeting appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Also, if you have trainees coming to the meeting, encourage them to come. The best networking happens when the convention center closes!

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Aging Life Care Association

JANUARY 23, 2023

Alisa Kaufman, a dentist specializing in geriatric care, shares her expertise to help caregivers become more confident in providing daily oral care to seniors — whether by brushing, flossing and using picks, or removing and cleaning full or partial dentures. Below is first in a two-part series of a caregivers guide to oral care.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2024

Many elderly Americans follow one of three place of care trajectories during the last three years of life, researchers from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, found in a study recently published in BMC Geriatrics. These include the home, skilled home care and institutional care.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Though social determinants can take time and resources to build into palliative care programs, they come with a strong return on investment, according to Dr. Yaquta Patni, wound care and geriatric care physician at Innovative Geriatrics.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Dopf is board-certified physician in internal medicine, geriatric medicine and hospice and palliative medicine. “I look forward to working with our talented team to further our mission of providing unparalleled hospice and palliative care to this unique community.”

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Hospice News

JULY 30, 2024

Anand Iyer, a pulmonary critical care physician scientist and associate professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine; the Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics, and Palliative Care; and the School of Nursing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2024

Landers is a board-certified physician in hospice and palliative care, as well as family and geriatric medicine. He most recently served as president of the consulting and advisory company Landers StratAGEy. He also holds a masters degree in public health policy and management.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Patel is fellowship trained in geriatric medicine with an emphasis on palliative and end-of-life care. Stacy Kreger, a nurse practitioner has an extensive background in geriatric and hospice care, the company indicated in a press release. The new hires follow the retirement of hospice physician Dr. Mark Silver.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 6, 2024

In addition, they offer very complementary service lines with their PACE programming, their home health and hospice programming and their geriatric practice.”

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Aging Life Care Association

MAY 19, 2023

Sometimes called geriatric care managers, Aging Life Care Managers are strategic planners with key knowledge in crisis intervention, housing, health and disability, advocacy, family legal needs, and financial and local resources.

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Hospice News

MARCH 13, 2024

The trend points to ways that patients might receive palliative services through new avenues, such as geriatrics, primary care or home health care. A range of medical specialties are incorporating palliative care principles into their care models.

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NHPCO

AUGUST 26, 2024

During his most recent tenure as the president and CEO of Hebrew SeniorLife, he led an organization known for superior senior living, geriatric health care, research and teaching. Landers has dedicated his career to seeking home- and community-based health care solutions for people of all ages.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Roughly 5 to 8 million older adults nationwide have one or more mental health conditions, according to research from the supplement Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS). That really plays into pain, symptom and medication management in these patients’ experiences.” This number is projected to triple over the next three decades.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Honing palliative skills can be a constantly moving target when considering patient populations needs, according to Dr. Shellie Williams, geriatric and palliative medicine physician and associate professor of medicine at the University of Chicago. Williams is also a fellow of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM).

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Hospice News

MAY 15, 2024

The findings suggest that traumatized terminally ill patients may have a multitude of greater physical, psychosocial and emotional needs compared to others, according to researcher Dr. Ashwin Kotwal, assistant professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco’s (UCSF) Division of Geriatrics.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Sharon Brangman, who is a SUNY Distinguished Service professor and chair of the Department of Geriatrics and director of the Center of Excellence for Alzheimer’s Disease. The field of geriatrics has been, I would say, somewhat negative on these drugs. ” Eric: Nice. So I agree.

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Hospice News

APRIL 17, 2024

The impact of limited access to palliative psychiatry can include poor quality outcomes for those with mental health conditions, according to Dr. Priya Krishnasamy, associate professor in the departments of geriatrics, palliative medicine and psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Health System.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Unroe has worked in advance care planning and palliative care, dating back to experience at the Duke University Medical Center as a Geriatric Fellow and as a fellow for the Office of Disability, Aging, and Long Term Care Policy at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

We started doing the house calls, mobile palliative care, geriatric primary care work. Does a patient need palliative care, or do they need geriatrics, or do they need primary care? I started out with one of the first agencies at Pennant, the one in Boise, Idaho, where we’re based, just right at the beginning.

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Hospice News

APRIL 22, 2024

Hospice providers with higher volumes of assisted living-based patients are 7% more likely to receive lower quality scores than those in other settings, according to a recent study , published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2024

Katz Professor and chair of the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Mount Sinai. Sean Morrison, director at the National Palliative Care Research Center (NPCRC). Morrison is also the Ellen and Howard C. More research has been long overdue to improve clinical palliative care training models, Morrison said.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 1, 2024

We have an existing group of primary care providers, but we’re very aggressively pursuing acquiring as many primary care providers who are already in the geriatric care space, because when you look at most of the risk-based models — the GUIDE model that’s coming out and ACO REACH,” Ponder Stansel said. “[The

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. On today’s podcast, we talk to Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen about hearing loss in geriatrics and palliative care. How to screen for hearing loss.

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Daily Nurse

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The program’s curriculum covers a wide range of specialties, including behavioral health, pediatrics, diabetes management, geriatrics, and urgent care, ensuring that participating NPs are well-prepared to address diverse healthcare challenges.

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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. I’m most proud that when we started the blog, there was some tension between Geriatrics and Palliative care. They’ve all been laid out for you. Anne: Right.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 28, 2023

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Hospice News

JULY 24, 2024

A range of barriers contribute to the under-utilization of palliative care in nursing home settings, including poorly defined referral criteria and a general lack of awareness and understanding of what palliative care is and does, the study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society indicated.

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Hospice News

APRIL 30, 2024

We implemented the caregiver self assessment questionnaire, which is a validated brief metric developed by the American Geriatric Society. About 50% of respondents indicated that they did not feel confident identifying caregiver burnout and that a screening tool would be helpful, according to Certo. ‘We

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Hospice News

APRIL 9, 2024

Freeland specializes in geriatrics, advance care planning and home-based primary care. Medicare Advantage beneficiary demographics have been changing in a positive direction in terms of reducing disparities among underserved populations, Freeland said.

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

Our mission is to build expert teams who can then provide expert care and an extra layer of support to persons living with dementia and their care partners,” researcher Ab Brody, associate director and founder of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at Aliviado Health. “Our Brody is also a registered nurse in end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 30, 2023

The move toward risk-based reimbursement systems is partly fueling a resurgence in home-based primary care, according to a 2018 study in the journal Geriatrics. A number of hospices have launched their own programs or partnerships with other providers. Patients in the United States received more than 2.2

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GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

Alex: We are delighted to welcome Ramona Rhodes, who is a geriatrician and palliative care doctor, and member of the Board of Directors for the American Geriatric Society. Alex: And speaking of the American Geriatric Society, we are delighted to welcome Nancy Lundebjerg. The same thing happens in geriatrics. Ramona: Thank you.

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