Hospice News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

We have both a population that is more likely to need palliative care services, and access to services is oftentimes more limited. For the purposes of your program, what definition do you use for community-based palliative care? Oftentimes, we say the hospital, but the hospital also manages the home care and the long term care.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Assisted Living Communities (no longer preferable to call them Assisted Living Facilities, as we learned on the podcast) are…what, exactly? The problem is the tremendous heterogeneity in services offered and quality of care. If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. .

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So we thought that really coalescing around this term, which is still difficult because sometimes you think of unrepresented is politically unrepresented or it is a challenging definition with three parts to it that’s really hard to capture with any one term. Eric 09:14 And how would you define unrepresented?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Eric: Definitely MAID- Alex: Eric knows, MAID in Canada Eric: Medical Aid In Dying in Canada. He wants to know what do you guys think about the effect of private equity on hospice and long-term care? Alex: Definitely not on amyloid drugs. We have on that podcast about re-imagining long-term care.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing home or assisted living facility. Joan: And it really came from a resident who I worked with whose family, their goal was to get him back to his home environment, which was an ALF; an assisted living facility.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

So you can go to skilled facility for short rehab- But if you are permanently living in a nursing home. But if you’re in assisted living, yes. If you are independent living, yes. Eric: So as long as Medicare is not paying for the… Or Medicaid, I guess, for nursing. Long-term care.

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