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Hospice News
FEBRUARY 20, 2024
Even more so, specific Medicare and Medicaid policies perpetuate this cycle. After experiencing a functional decline at the hospital, the woman, no longer able to live at home safely, was sent to an SNF for post-acute care, covered by Medicare. Older adults frequently utilize such services, often in skilled nursing facilities (SNF).
GeriPal
APRIL 27, 2023
And I think with the Medicare hospice benefit not meeting the needs of older adults, it’s very hard to even have a segue to have those conversations because you can’t really offer people a path forward in a way that aligns with their values. It is not in any way sponsored by AAHPM or HPNA. And with that, thanks everybody.
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GeriPal
MARCH 3, 2022
This idea that for critically ill patients in the ICU, geriatric conditions like disability, frailty, multimorbidity, and dementia should be viewed through a wider lens of what patients are like before and after the ICU event was transformative for our two guests today. I’m going to turn to you Lauren.
GeriPal
JUNE 2, 2022
I read this Twitter thread by Andy Slavitt, who was a former head of Medicare, Medicaid under Obama, former Biden White House senior advisor, host of In the Bubble Podcast. And to be very fair, there was a study in 2013 in family practice, this would be important, I think for those who treat older patients.
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