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The Senior Living Opportunity for Hospices

Hospice News

Many hospices in 2025 are driving to expand in the senior housing and assisted living space. More than 818,000 people in the United States dwell in more than 30,600 assisted living communities nationwide with an aggregate 1.2 The lions share of assisted living residents are aged 85 or older, AHCA/NCAL reported.

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Hospice of the Valley: Redefining the End-of-Life Care Delivery Outlook

Hospice News

He was so intrigued that he gathered a few volunteers and began Hospice of the Valley, which was largely a volunteer organization living off of a few grants here and there prior to when hospice Medicare reimbursement came around in the early 1980s. There was a lot of community involvement. That is the future.

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Stratis Health Builds Framework for Expanding Rural Community-Based Palliative Care

Hospice News

For the purposes of your program, what definition do you use for community-based palliative care? Sometimes they might be doing consultations either inpatient or in the nursing home or in assisted living. There are things you can bill for, particularly your traditional Medicare; you can bill for some of the clinician visits.

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GeriPal Special: Hopes and Worries for Hospice and Palliative Care

GeriPal

Eric: Martha – breaking the definition for palliative care, no longer an extra layer of support. I don’t know if that’s true, but I just wanted to say that if there is this concern, this builds on what Eric was saying, this trend of equity buying hospices, buying assisted living facilities. Alex: Nursing homes.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

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. But we think unrepresented is an advance beyond the previous terminology.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

Eric: Definitely MAID- Alex: Eric knows, MAID in Canada Eric: Medical Aid In Dying in Canada. I looked up the annual Medicare spending, is about one 10th that, so it’s like 10 times the annual Medicare budget. Alex: Definitely not on amyloid drugs. Definitely putting a little bit more prep time in.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

And at some point, she was living in assisted living and fell and broke her hip. And we know that a third of Medicare beneficiaries undergo surgery in the last year of life with 18% of those occurring in the last month of life. So we looked at Medicare data, we called out everything that had this 1% cutoff or higher.

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