Hospice News

JULY 11, 2022

The gradual move of reimbursement systems to value-based care models is partly fueling a resurgence in home-based primary care, according to a 2018 study in the journal Geriatrics. Patients in assisted living facilities, group homes, and other facilities received 3.2 Patients in the United States received more than 2.2

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Hospice News

JANUARY 1, 2024

We have an existing group of primary care providers, but we’re very aggressively pursuing acquiring as many primary care providers who are already in the geriatric care space, because when you look at most of the risk-based models — the GUIDE model that’s coming out and ACO REACH,” Ponder Stansel said. “[The

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Alex: And we are delight to welcome Lindsey Yourman, who is a geriatrician, she’s a longtime friend and mentee, and is now a peer and is a key component of the ePrognosis working group and helped originate the ideas that led to ePrognosis and she’s now San Diego County’s Chief Geriatrics Officer. Welcome to GeriPal, Lindsey.

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Comfort Home Care

MAY 15, 2022

Comfort Home Care provides in-home care services for seniors living at home and in assisted living communities. Comfort Home Care provides license Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs), Geriatric Nursing Assistants (GNAs) and Home Health Aides (HHAs). About Comfort Home Care.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

And in fact, as Alex mentioned in the intro, probably more than 20 years ago, Muriel Gillig asked me to help out with the geriatric modules at the Brigham women’s hospital primary care medicine sort of sessions. He’s 91, lives in assisted living, has been diagnosed with HF , HF preserved ejection.

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GeriPal

APRIL 27, 2023

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. Eric: Buying GeriPal podcasts. Alex: Nursing homes. Eric: Here’s our contact information. And with that, thanks everybody.

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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. She’s a geriatric nurse practitioner specializing in palliative care, and assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. Summary Transcript Summary. Ruth: Sure.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And at some point, she was living in assisted living and fell and broke her hip. And I learned, so you have this wonderful paper that just came out in JAGS, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, titled Patients Living with Dementia Have Worse Outcomes When Undergoing High-Risk Procedures. Yep, for geriatrics?

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Hospice News

MARCH 22, 2024

Crouch in 2016 became a home care and assisted living facilities physician at the organization. Fluent in English, French and Arabic, Abdo has led the Louisiana State University’s geriatric medicine fellowship program since 2016.

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Chicago Caregiving

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

“If they are healthy and active, you have some time, though the process still should not be put off too long , as things can change in one’s 70s, 80s, and 90s,” says Christopher D’Agostino, DO, director of geriatric services and chief medical officer at Acension Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital in Hoffman Estates.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

She’s Professor and Vice Chair for Research at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine. Alex: We’re delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Krista Harrison, who is a Health Policy Researcher, an Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSF Division of Geriatrics.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

She’s an epidemiologist and assistant professor of medicine in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Alex Smith: And we’re delighted to welcome back James Deardorff, who is a geriatrician and research fellow in the UCSF Division of Geriatrics. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Alex. Alex Lee: Thank you. Happy to be here.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Blood products, TPN, dobutamine for heart failure, and other therapies can be administered in hospices , nursing homes, assisted living and memory care facilities, and other settings. An NP-run practice focusing on the needs of older adults could bill insurance or be run on a concierge basis.

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Seasons Hospice

MAY 21, 2024

Limited availability of dentists specializing in geriatric care or trained to address the unique oral health needs of older adults can further exacerbate access issues for seniors. Geriatric Dentistry Programs Increasing the number of dentists trained in geriatric dentistry can help meet the unique oral health needs of older adults.

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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? If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. . Summary Transcript Summary. Transcript. This is Eric Widera.

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NHPCO

MARCH 4, 2022

Farrand is a board-certified adult nurse practitioner with an MSN focused on geriatric and adult health. Additionally, she holds an advanced practice certificate in palliative care, a BA in Psychology, an MS in Behavioral Neuroscience, and an MA in Art Therapy.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

Eric: So before we talk about improving… So first of all, we just had a podcast not too long ago on assisted living facilities, so it seems very timely. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Jasmine. Jasmine: Thank you. Happy to be here, Alex. We’re going to be talking about improving nursing home quality.

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Caregiver Support Services

APRIL 10, 2024

They play a key role in coordinating patient care and may specialize in areas like geriatrics or palliative care. These tasks include creating patient care plans, administering medications, and performing diagnostic tests. They can prescribe medications, diagnose diseases, and provide treatment plans.

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Caregiver Support Services

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Making the decision that it’s time for your elderly parent to move into a long-term care facility is never easy, yet in some instances it is essential if your parent needs care you might not be able to offer. Selecting the right long-term care facility will impact your parent’s experience.

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Home Care Pulse

MAY 16, 2023

So we’re not just in home care, we’re in hospital, we’re in laboratory, ambulatory, you know, nursing care and assisted living centers as well. If you’re an agency who also provides pt, OT of speech pathology, registered nursing at home, geriatric management, that’s a wonderful thing.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Our task is simple, we are going to be sampling each of these hot chicken wings while we ask Eric and Alex questions related to Palliative care and Geriatrics. I’m most proud that when we started the blog, there was some tension between Geriatrics and Palliative care. They’ve all been laid out for you. Anne: Right.

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

You could even segment this list by target referral sources in each part of the senior living and senior care spectrum. For example, you could list your preferred hospice provider or an award-winning assisted living facility in your area. You can also think outside the box when it comes to potential referral sources.

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AlayaCare

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

You could even segment this list by target referral sources in each part of the senior living and senior care spectrum. For example, you could list your preferred hospice provider or an award-winning assisted living facility in your area. Senior and geriatric advisors. Other healthcare professionals.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Every member of the team, even for me, for whatever reason, that switched me from focusing on trying to be in pulmonary critical care to become actually a geriatrician, choose the geriatric fellowship. So you can go to skilled facility for short rehab- But if you are permanently living in a nursing home. And it became a terror for me.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

Hospital residential care assisted living, nursing facilities resident. Just supporting each other too, because how many people are leaving healthcare, but especially leaving this geriatric medicine post-acute facet because they get frustrated or they get fearful of, of these kind of situations.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

” But we had a hunch that turned out to be right that by the time these folks were in their fifties, they really had all the geriatric conditions and things we associate with much older. Yeah, this is a geriatrics journal, and generally, if people aren’t over the age of 65, JAGS may not look at it as strongly. Margot: Yes.

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