Hospice News

AUGUST 4, 2023

The home health and hospice provider’s additional services included bereavement care, as well as free medical equipment loans for wheelchairs, walkers, crutches, bath benches, bedside commodes or canes. Reports of] the events together is a mischaracterization, leading the community to believe the events are related.”

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

ePrognosis started out as just a list of different prognostic indices, so things to predict mortality in hospitalized adults, things to predict mortality in community dwelling adults, things to predict mortality in nursing home residents. And we’ve been slowly building that out. That’s been reported previously.

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Shining Light Hospice

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Unfortunately, it will also interfere with the ability to perform activities of daily living such as eating, toileting, and bathing. Patients will have difficulty remembering current events as well as their own personal past history. What Causes Dementia? This is the last stage where symptoms are considered mild.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

Next, we talk with James Deardorff about whether we can accurately predict nursing home level of care in community-dwelling older adults with dementia. Alex 16:46 On time to nursing, needing nursing home level of care. That just leads to issues that can make home care very difficult for these individuals.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. Equally as important, is if you wind up in an ED or being hospitalized or wind up in rehab, eventually you’re going to be discharged back home. Acute care is called acute care for a reason.

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Boca Home Care Services

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

They could need additional medical assistance or they could end up living with family, in a retirement facility, or get assistance from an in-home aide. In essence, the word ‘seniors’ might call to mind images of walkers, nursing homes, and individuals of a ‘particular age.’

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