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

Hospice News

The funds will in part help to expand the CAPABLE programs ability to complete safety and functional home modifications and repairs in the primary residences of roughly 200 eligible low-income senior homeowners and renters. CAPABLE programs have in some cases provided more than 6x return on investment nationwide, the analysis found.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

Summary Transcript CME Summary The need for better palliative care in nursing homes is significant. nursing homes grapple with serious illnesses, and roughly half experience dementia. Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. This is Eric Widera.

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Music as Medicine: Jenny Chen, Tyler Jorgensen, & Theresa Allison

GeriPal

Jenny 23:26 Oh, it’s literally a documentary of people following specific patients in nursing homes who benefit from music and seeing the impact of music. Or even when people have, like, adl, total care, ADL needs, they will still occasionally sing. Theresa 23:42 Well, we really should have Dan Cohen on the podcast.

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Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho

GeriPal

Nursing homes all over the place? So we focused on community dwelling population in the study because some other people have studied nursing home residents actually found pretty similar findings in terms of rates. Pretty good prognostic indicator, actually. Eric 20:32 Are these people in the. In the community?

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Calls Grow Louder for Greater Federal Support of Rural Hospices

Hospice News

It can also be more difficult to address social determinants of health needs and provide assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs) with caregiver support lagging among rural populations, providers noted.

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Supporting patient, caregiver and family engagement with technology

AlayaCare

Families have turned away from nursing homes and other institutionalized settings at record rates over the last few years. Instead, they’re choosing home care for their loved ones. As a result, home care organizations are not only caring for more clients – but more clients with acute and complex needs.

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Supporting patient, caregiver and family engagement with technology

AlayaCare

Families have turned away from nursing homes and other institutionalized settings at record rates over the last few years. Instead, they’re choosing home care for their loved ones. As a result, home care organizations are not only caring for more clients – but more clients with acute and complex needs.

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