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Two CEOs Retire, Three Hospice Leadership Teams Grow

Hospice News

The organization affiliated with the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) health system in 2015. By the Bay Health now serves eight counties statewide and provides hospice, palliative and pediatric care, along with skilled nursing home health and grief support.

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Angela Hospice’s New Inpatient Facility; Hosparus Opens PACE Center

Hospice News

The nonprofit hospice provider’s subsidiary — Care Guide Partners – provides services at the center. To qualify for PACE, residents must be 55 and older, in need of nursing home-level care and able to safely receive community-based services in a home-based setting.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. Eric: Just for the aging population, what about long-term care? And the nurse can’t dose it, they have to individually dose it.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

You might be able to extend your life a little bit, but at what cost? So, that was maybe 20 years ago at this point and it really got me down the road thinking about advance care planning, end-of-life care, and similar consequences. You may end up there indefinitely. Eric: Yeah.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

In a separate study in Chest , Lauren found pre-ICU frailty was associated with post-ICU disability and new nursing home admission. We wouldn’t dream of not measuring oxygen saturation, yet function, which is highly predictive of outcomes older adults care about, many hospitals hardly measure.

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Over the Threshold: Creating Solutions

Chicago Caregiving

In 2015, University of Illinois Health invested $250,000 to establish housing for 26 unhoused people for one year in an attempt to connect people with case managers and ongoing medical care, instead of relying on the emergency department. In 2015, system leaders thought 75 homeless people had utilized the emergency department.

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