Hospice News

JANUARY 31, 2024

About 16% of the survey respondents indicated plans to start palliative care programs this year, a decline from 56% of respondents in 2023. Participants are typically those certified by a state to require nursing level of care (which can be home-based), and need assistance with certain activities of daily life (ADLs).

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This discussion took place on September 7, 2023 during the Hospice News ELEVATE Conference. This was presented back in Tampa at a post-acute long-term care conference earlier this year, where we looked at the ability of speech recognition to drive down Medicare denials of claims. This article is sponsored by nVoq.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Like this year, 287 geriatric fellows started in 2023, which really isn’t a big change over the last 10 years. And of course those high rates of burnout and exhaustion are present across medical specialties. So every year we get more programs who decide that I’m going to do start a geriatrics fellowship program.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 27, 2023

Is this a, a safe home environment or this client to live in, you know, a thorough fall risk, but really a good look around the home and, you know, how can they do their ADLs? And Laura dropped so many nuggets during that little presentation piece right there. Are they safe? Do they need any equipment?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

JAGS Hospital-at-Home Interventions vs In-Hospital Stay for Patients With Chronic Disease Who Present to the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. In our larger studies, before the study that Tacara helped lead, we never required family members to be present, or do work. Annals of Int Med. This is Eric Widera.

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