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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

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We have a very small assisted living facility, and we have a hospice inpatient unit there also. Expanding services to them prior to Medicares current definition of hospice is how an individual has support that really walks alongside them. What are the other services or programs that Hospice of the Valley offers?

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

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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. It leverages those resources to offer a wraparound suite of services for seniors and seriously ill patients.

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GeriPal Special: Hopes and Worries for Hospice and Palliative Care

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Furthermore, direction to external websites is not an endorsement from AAHPM or HPNA, or the Annual Assembly. Palliative Care the Next Generation: How the Service May Grow and Evolve AccentCare , a portfolio company of private equity firm Advent International, is another example. We’ve got a very large palliative care practice,” Rodgers told PCN.

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Brigham Young Geriatrician: Physician Residents Need to Learn Hospice Principles, Senior’s Specific Needs

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There are new training models, like combined internal medicine and geriatrics residency programs, that include more teaching about geriatrics and clinical experiences in settings like the home, assisted living, or skilled nursing facilities.

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Executive Moves at UnitedHealth Group, Treasure Coast Hospice

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As a result of Mr. McMahon’s successful tenure with the company, he has met the definition of retirement set forth in his previously granted equity awards, which will continue to vest in accordance with their terms, similar to equity awards granted to other employees,” Leong said.

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Assisted Living Communities: Podcast with Sheryl Zimmerman, Kenny Lam, and Ken Covinsky

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Assisted Living Communities (no longer preferable to call them Assisted Living Facilities, as we learned on the podcast) are…what, exactly? If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. . Assisted living, I can’t even say the word.