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GeriPal
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
As background, we discuss Manju Kurella Tamura’s landmark NEJM paper that found, contrary to expectations, that function declines precipitously for nursing home residents who initiate dialysis. So, for example, you know, we see somebody coming in from the nursing. A nursing home. Let it be (hint hint).
GeriPal
MARCH 10, 2022
If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing home or assisted living facility. This study explored nursing home organizational factors and staff perceptions that are associated with the variation in care for residents with advanced dementia. Rehabbed to Death.
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Hospice News
MAY 12, 2023
Among the considerations behind that choice was his experience in working with payers outside of traditional Medicare. Historically, home-based care and hospice providers have operated primarily within Medicare fee-for-service models. The company has come a long way since CEO Heath Bartness founded it in 2009.
GeriPal
MARCH 24, 2023
Lauren: And looking in the Medicare data, you cannot figure out when a hospice changed ownership. They’re really excellent, and if I have any complaint about them at all, it’s that they could have been issued in 2008, 2009. But we are still laboring under this Medicare benefit. Overall it was 3.1%
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. In 1984, there were only 31 Medicare-certified home hospice agencies. New York: Springer 2009: 135-155. Bereavement Services.
GeriPal
MARCH 7, 2024
I was alone with her in the end of a long hallway at a nursing home health center. My entire career has been taken care of in primary hospitalists and palliative underserved populations, either dual-eligible, Medicaid, and Medicare or community health centers, so I’ve always worked in that environment.
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