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Early Telepalliative Care Can Reduce Caregiver Burden, Improve Quality

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Wider utilization of telepalliative services could help ease family caregiver burdens and improve quality among seriously ill patient populations, research has found. The study found no differences in caregiver satisfaction when receiving virtual versus in-person palliative services.

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Palliative Care, Health Equity Growing in Medicare Advantage

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Passed in 2018, the Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic Care (CHRONIC) Act widened supportive avenues for social determinants of health among seriously ill populations. Freeland specializes in geriatrics, advance care planning and home-based primary care.

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Why Hospices Are Pursuing Home-Based Primary Care

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The gradual move of reimbursement systems to value-based care models is partly fueling a resurgence in home-based primary care, according to a 2018 study in the journal Geriatrics. Close to 260,000 of those seniors are homebound, with only 26% receiving home-based primary care. Patients in the United States received more than 2.2

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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

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Our last podcast was with Laura Petrillo in 2018 – 5 years ago seems ancient history – though many of the points still apply today (e.g. How do caregivers fit into this? What is the role of the family caregiver system, how they play a role? Goldilocks zone). How high is too high? Nadine: Thank you, guys.

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

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Summary Transcript Summary The comprehensive geriatric assessment is one of the cornerstones of geriatrics. But does the geriatric assessment do anything? Does it improve outcomes that patients, caregivers, and clinicians care about? What can you do with the results of a geriatric assessment? Precision medicine?

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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

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We covered: The first parody song I wrote, for AGS 2018 in Orlando , about this article by Nancy Schoenborn on how to discuss stopping cancer screening. We’re representing the American Geriatric Society today and we are delighted to be here in the podcast. Alex joined in 2018. Medina Walpole. Annie 01:42 Hi, everyone.

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Research Finds Home-Based Care Among Top End-of-Life Trajectories for Americans

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Many elderly Americans follow one of three place of care trajectories during the last three years of life, researchers from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, found in a study recently published in BMC Geriatrics. The study spanned data among 199,828 Medicare decedents 50 and older who died in 2018.