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Hospice Savannah Fuels Expansion of CAPABLE Program to Enable Aging in Place

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Launched in 2023, the CAPABLE program aims to improve seniors ability to safely age in place. Seniors who qualify include individuals experiencing difficulty in at least one or more activities of daily life (ADLs), or challenges with two or more instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs). Georgia-based Hospice Savannah Inc.

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Navigating Palliative Care Models in ACO Partnerships

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ACOs can give palliative providers an opportunity to be paid properly for their scope of services, particularly if theyre contracting with an ACO under an arrangement with Medicare, which launched a program called ACO Realizing Equity, Access and Community Health (ACO REACH) in 2023. According to the U.S.

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How Hospices Are Diversifying Their Services in 2024

Hospice News

About 16% of the survey respondents indicated plans to start palliative care programs this year, a decline from 56% of respondents in 2023. Palliative care, pediatric end-of-life care and end-of-life doula (EOLD) services are top of mind for hospices that are diversifying their services in 2024. But it goes both ways.

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HSPN ELEVATE: The Common Thread Linking Documentation, Satisfaction, and Revenue Protection

Hospice News

This discussion took place on September 7, 2023 during the Hospice News ELEVATE Conference. PPS score, the prognostic statement, the disease progression, the ADLs, whatever it was, it was missing one or a multiple of those. This article is sponsored by nVoq. The article below has been edited for length and clarity.

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

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Like this year, 287 geriatric fellows started in 2023, which really isn’t a big change over the last 10 years. Eric: What excites me about the med students is when I was a med student, I never heard of ADLs or IDLs and we just gave a talk to first or second year of med students. There just aren’t enough of them.

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A Heartfelt Mention of Hospice of the North Coast in IAHPC’s Latest Article

Hospice of the North Coast

So far, Lisa has outlived her prognosis, and after one seizure two weeks ago when we thought we’d lost her, she rallied and is now back to eating on her own, walking up and down steps with help, and performing most activities of daily living (ADLs) with minimal support. A wise decision.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

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Than someone who is perhaps dependent on all their ADLs. In the United States in 2023, the truth of the matter is you don’t need very many individual risk factors to become homeless. But the folks who are homeless are much more likely to have a really high burden of these individual risk factors. Margot: Thank you.