Hospice News
APRIL 11, 2024
To qualify for PACE, residents must be 55 and older, in need of nursing home-level care and able to safely receive community-based services in a home-based setting. Founded in 2004, Ohio’s Community Mercy Hospice is a service of Ohio’s Hospice of Dayton. The PACE program serves communities across six counties in Kentucky.
AJN Off the Charts
MAY 23, 2022
I served on the ground after tornadoes struck the South ( Dispatches from the Alabama Tornado Zone ) and the Midwest and in the days following Hurricane Andrew, September 11th, the 2004 Florida hurricanes and Hurricane Katrina, and the Indonesia tsunami. Through my volunteer work, I met people in my community and developed leadership skills.
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1-800-HOSPICE
JANUARY 18, 2022
More and more people are choosing to die at home. However, by 2017, home surpassed hospitals, nursing homes, and every other place as the most common place of death. 2004 Dec 1;161(12):2257-62. Since the healthcare system first started keeping track of this in the 70s, most people died in hospitals.
GeriPal
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
Jerry: Probably for the reason a lot of people go into geriatrics, close relationship with grandparents, volunteered to work in a nursing home as a high school student, just felt really good about being around old people and not having a problem with it. Eric: And can I ask you, why did you choose geriatrics? Why did you go into it?
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