Remove Caregiver Remove Long-term care Remove Nursing home
article thumbnail

5 ‘Hidden Gem’ Palliative Care News Stories in 2024

Hospice News

The project is designed to learn more about the innovative, person-centered care models that can help address common challenges that these patients and their caregivers face including approaches that integrate palliative care services.

article thumbnail

Long-Term Care Insurance and Senior In-Home Care

Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

As individuals and families plan for the future, one crucial consideration is the potential need for long-term care. Long-term care insurance has emerged as a valuable tool to ensure that individuals can access the care they need without depleting their savings.

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

U.S. Senate Takes Up Supporting Our Seniors Act

Hospice News

have introduced a bill that would establish a national committee to study long-term care in the United States. . Patients in nursing homes on average were in hospice for 109 days of care in 2019, compared to 95 days among those receiving services in a private residence and 161 days in assisted living.

article thumbnail

How to Prove Nursing Home Negligence

Caregiver Support Services

If you’ve acted as a caregiver to a loved one and have decided to move them to a care home or nursing home, you’ve already made a difficult decision. In a perfect world, we wouldn’t have to worry about neglect or abuse in nursing homes. Unfortunately, not every facility is created equally.

article thumbnail

‘It’s Where We’re at Right Now’: US Prison System Struggling to Keep Up with Growing Need for Palliative Care

Hospice News

The prison system was never designed to become a nursing home or hospice, but it has become one. They didn’t have a specific nurse for them. Clinical capacity limits are a large reason growing senior inmate populations lack access to palliative care services, according to researchers from Pennsylvania State University.

article thumbnail

Five kids, one nursing home and a deck of cards

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

And caregivers, whether clinical or parental, get to witness something special: two ends of the human experience meeting in the middle. The opinions expressed in McKnights Long-Term Care News guest submissions are the authors and are not necessarily those of McKnights Long-Term Care News or its editors.

article thumbnail

GAO: CMS Should Update Rules for Hospices Reporting Abuse or Neglect

Hospice News

If the agency follows the GAO’s recommendation, they would also have to notify survey agencies when others, like family members or caregivers, become abusive or neglectful. This would bring the hospice rules in line with those used in long term care.

Hospice 246