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

Hospice News

of the country’s total population, according to a 2015 report by the U.S. It allows us to discharge patients when they are ready, and enables patients to choose a setting in which they are most comfortable – whether that’s in an assisted living facility or their own home.” Census Bureau.

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Hospices Partner with After-Loss Services to Bolster Grief Support

Hospice News

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. Hathaway founded PALS after her husband died of terminal cancer in 2015.

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

GeriPal

Alex: We’re delighted to welcome back Lauren Hunt, who is a Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse Researcher, an Assistant Professor of Nursing at UCSF. We are delighted to welcome Melissa Aldridge to the GeriPal Podcast. Melissa is a Health Services Researcher. Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Melissa. Melissa: Thank you. Great to be here.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

And at some point, she was living in assisted living and fell and broke her hip. And we looked at the electronic health records at both of those hospital systems, the MGB network, folks who had fee-for-service Medicare coverage from October 2015 to about September 2017, 6,800 patients. Really, a smart and caring woman.

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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

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. Hospital residential care assisted living, nursing facilities resident. Speaker 2 ( 00:40 ): Mm-hmm. , But Barbara is an award-winning, end of life educator and registered nurse.

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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. 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. That’s what Malaz is going to talk about. Malaz: Yeah.

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