GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. But are we really taking full advantage of ALL social workers have to offer our field? I don’t know if this person was a social worker or not.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

billion divestiture of a 60% stake in Kindred at Home’s hospice and personal care segments to the private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice. These include a focus on smaller target acquisitions as valuations remain high across health care sectors, including within hospice, home health and personal care, according to Broussard.

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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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American In-Home Care

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The knowledge and expertise offered by a specialist can help guide care and provide information about clinical trials. Geriatric Care Specialists. Social workers, care coordinators and case managers have experience and special training in working with older adults who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Or was able to do dignity therapy with somebody who was in a personal care home. So I think about social workers, pastoral care professionals, like spiritual care clinicians. So I mean, I had referrals from as far as Canadian Arctic North, of people who were interested in doing dignity therapy.

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Home Care Pulse

MAY 16, 2023

They required nurses to perform assessments before initiating care and regularly every 60 days. And that’s even though we were strictly a personal care provider and not providing any skilled nursing services. So we don’t come there, you know, looking for, you know, for medical type of, of care being provided.

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