Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

As the study explains, nursing homes are incentivized to hospitalize residents eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid because those patients can later return to the nursing home with a higher-paying Medicare benefit before transitioning back to long-term care with lower Medicaid day rates.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Alex 01:27 We’re delighted to welcome back Tim F a rrell, who’s a geriatrician, associate chief for Age Friendly care at the University of Utah and chair of the American Geriatric Society Ethics Committee. All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. Thanks for having me.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

J Am Geriatr Soc. JAGS 2022 Trends in Antipsychotic and Mood Stabilizer Prescribing in Long-Term Care in the U.S.: 2011-2014 JAMDA 2020 Efficacy of Gabapentinoids: Gabapentinoids for Pain: Potential Unintended Consequences. AFP 2019 Gabapentin for chronic neuropathic pain in adults.

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Chicago Caregiving

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

After her wife was diagnosed with stage IV cancer in 2011, Marsha Wetzel spent the next two years taking care of Judy, her partner of 30 years, until Judy entered hospice care. Suddenly, Wetzel, an older woman with a disability, was in need a place where she herself could receive long-term care.

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