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Key Trends to Watch: Health Systems Moving into Hospice, Home-Based Care

Hospice News

Coupled with the entry of more payers into the space, the influx of health systems into home health, hospice and community-based palliative care stands to change the competitive dynamics in markets nationwide. This is the last of three articles that explore some of health care macro-trends that could impact hospices. Census Bureau.

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Hospices Partner with After-Loss Services to Bolster Grief Support

Hospice News

This reality is driving some hospices to forge stronger collaborations with providers of after-loss services. One of the greatest challenges facing bereaved families when a loved one dies is the lack of a will or other estate planning tool (for example, living trust),” Marylander told Hospice News in an email.

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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

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Two major shifts are transforming the landscape of hospice. First, private equity firms are gobbling up hospices. Thus, they have little in the way of long term vision for hospices, instead focused on cutting costs and maximizing profits. . People with dementia make up about half of hospice admissions. AlexSmithMD.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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And at some point, she was living in assisted living and fell and broke her hip. She went to an inpatient hospice and they kept her comfortable for a couple of weeks and she passed away. My mother-in-law, Ruth Leman, was a professor emeritus at American University. Really, a smart and caring woman.

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Tiredness of Life: A Growing Phenomenon Among the Elderly

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The survey did not concentrate on residents in assisted-living facilities. Conclusion The wish to die in older people who are tired of living and the possibilities to organize a death are being currently discussed within a debate on physician-assisted suicide. 2015 Aug 1;138:257-64. Social science & medicine.

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Ep.18: BK Books with Barbara Karnes: Why Approaching Hospice Holistically is Necessary to the Success of the Care Continuum

Home Care Pulse

And to do that, we’re joined by hospice pioneer, Barbara Karnes. She has won the N H P C O Hospice Innovator Award in 2018, and she was the 2015 International Humanitarian Woman of the Year. She has won the N H P C O Hospice Innovator Award in 2018, and she was the 2015 International Humanitarian Woman of the Year.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

I think the big one for me, it was in 2015. 2015, 2016. You cannot be in hospice. So you can go to skilled facility for short rehab- But if you are permanently living in a nursing home. But if you’re in assisted living, yes. If you are independent living, yes. Malaz: Yeah. So that’s one.

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