GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Eric: Definitely MAID- Alex: Eric knows, MAID in Canada Eric: Medical Aid In Dying in Canada. Eric: One out of six hospices, so there is financial concern, not just again with hospices, nursing homes, and now physician groups. ” And, he said, “End of life care.” Alex: That one’s easy.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The experts settled on a range of key services, from more palliative care focused (e.g. end of life care and advance care planning) to more geriatrics focused (e.g. staff training in person centered care). RCFEs, boarding cares, nursing homes. toenail trimming) to things in between (e.g.

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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. This study explored nursing home organizational factors and staff perceptions that are associated with the variation in care for residents with advanced dementia.

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Hospice News

JULY 1, 2022

Patients will receive 24/7 care at the six-bed hospice facility, which features private patient rooms, a living room space, kitchen, large dining area, office area and a serenity garden. In line with national trends, the area’s aging population is projected to grow and raise demand for end-of-life care and related services.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

How did you get interested in palliative care research and the stuff that you’re doing right now? I was always critical care bound since medical school. But definitely always had the bug to be the one to jump into the family meetings in the ICU, lead them. Alex: So the proven trial was that the video in the nursing homes?

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

And typically, in the education around facilitating those conversations, we’re focused on eliciting goals and what are that individual’s goals of care and how does that direct the plan right now, knowing that some of those decisions, even if you make a choice now aren’t actually going to come into play for days, weeks, months.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-life care. Eric: Just for the aging population, what about long-term care? And the nurse can’t dose it, they have to individually dose it.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

And people are getting life sentences. They’re going to get older, they’re going to struggle with geriatric conditions, and they’re going to need palliative services and eventually end-of-life care. You walk through that door and you feel like you’ve come into more of a nursing home.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

You might be able to extend your life a little bit, but at what cost? So, that was maybe 20 years ago at this point and it really got me down the road thinking about advance care planning, end-of-life care, and similar consequences. You may end up there indefinitely. Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

In a separate study in Chest , Lauren found pre-ICU frailty was associated with post-ICU disability and new nursing home admission. We wouldn’t dream of not measuring oxygen saturation, yet function, which is highly predictive of outcomes older adults care about, many hospitals hardly measure. Eric: Yeah.

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Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

you know, I think there’s, there’s definitely been a change in the perception of continuing education and how important it is for all healthcare professionals. Just one example, when I moved from Minnesota to North Carolina, I was kind of shocked that North Carolina had absolutely no continuing education requirements for nurses.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The outlook for hospice providers will become increasingly challenging if the unscrupulous billing activity continues, with negative impacts for a swelling aging population with end-of-life care needs, Harrison stated. This has elicited pushback from nursing home provider associations and other industry stakeholders.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

A lot has changed, but what motivated the study was a recognition that most advanced care planning interventional research had been undertaken in nursing homes. Danny 07:39 Yeah, definitely. So some of our approaches definitely altered based on the availability of what we could get done. Sydney 25:10 Yes.

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Hospice News

MAY 5, 2023

If regulators were to extend the timeframe for eligibility, patients could reap the full benefits of end-of-life care, the two executives said. Some of it was definitely just trying to find new ideas in a way to be able to get into facilities and doctors’ offices. It was still a very virtual world.

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