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The Ups and Downs of Inpatient Hospice Care: New Facilities Open as Others Close

Hospice News

Baptist Senior Family launches inpatient hospice Pennsylvania-based Baptist Senior Family has opened a new hospice facility at Providence Point, a large continuing care retirement community that initially opened in 2009. Baptist Senior Family offers hospice, home care, skilled nursing, rehabilitation and personal care services.

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Geriatric Nursing: A Specialty in Need

Nurse.com

From 2009 to 2019, the population of adults age 65 and older grew 36% to more than 54 million Americans, according to the Administration for Community Living (ACL) — a division of the U.S. “The Impact on home care. For geriatric nurses or geriatric NPs working in home care, growing the specialty is also an ongoing goal.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

Many years ago for the first study; I believe it was in 2009, 2010; I met with Susan Mitchell at the Institute for Aging Research, and told her that I wanted to study the use of feeding tubes for people with advanced dementia. And basically saying that high-quality nursing home care and palliative care are one and the same.