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Family Resource Home Care Expands with Companion Care Acquisition

Hospice News

Companion Care has roughly 100 employees that provide nonmedical personal care and caregiving services to seniors and disabled individuals in their home or in facility-based settings such as assisted and retirement living communities, hospitals or rehabilitation centers, incuding hospice patients. Seniors 65 and older represent 16.8%

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Angela Hospice’s New Inpatient Facility; Hosparus Opens PACE Center

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The faith-based nonprofit organization also has a telehospice program, which offers virtual telehealth support to hospice caregivers and patients. Terminally ill residents at the Lourdes facility who are unable to remain at home or lack caregiver support will be eligible to receive care at the inpatient hospice.

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Lifematters Selects AlayaCare as a Home Care Software Partner

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Lifematters employs more than 1,500 caregivers across the mid-Atlantic region in Maryland, Virginia and Washington D.C., Home care is seeing greater participation in Medicare Advantage Plans and Transitional Care programs for healthcare systems and skilled nursing facilities, which are also important programs for Lifematters.

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The Caregiving Years Training Academy

I followed the news coverage after Vice President Harris announced that, if she won, she would include a Medicare home care benefit. I thought morning shows would have a panel discussion about solutions, including home care, family caregivers need. Family caregivers shared the challenges of getting and keeping affordable help.

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How Hospice Supports Families

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Family members describe this caregiver role as fulfilling, rewarding, and an important part of the process. It does not help that caregivers often feel guilty for needing or wanting help and resultantly avoid the help they need. In 1984, there were only 31 Medicare-certified home hospice agencies. Caregiver Education in Hospice.

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