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-@AlexSmithMD Additional Links: – Fingerstick monitoring in VA nursing homes (too common!) – Improving diabetes management in hospice – Continuous Glucose Monitoring complicating end of lifecare Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera. Alex Smith: This is Alex Smith. Alex Lee: Yes.
AAHPM (American Academy of Hospice and Palliative)
AUGUST 11, 2023
Our field’s focus on delivering this type of patient-centric, high-quality, cost-effective care, ideally positions palliative care at the center of discussion in many population health initiatives for health systems, government, and private payers’ programs. The Myth Regarding the High Cost of End-of-LifeCare.
Erin Harris: My journey in this field began with retail pharmacy, but my passion for hospice care led me to Enclara Pharmacia. Witnessing the compassionate, collaborative efforts of hospice teams during my great-grandmothers end-of-lifecare inspired me to transition into this field.
An expansion of “death literacy” is necessary to improve end-of-lifecare in the United States, according to Michael Connelly, former CEO of Mercy Health. This is the subject of Connelly’s recent book, The Journey’s End: An Investigation of Death & Dying in America. It’s just postponing it.
For a deeper dive, check out some of these other studies and resources we talked about in the podcast: The Influence of Nursing Home Culture on the Use of Feeding Tubes. The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. Rehabbed to Death. Ruth: Oh, thanks.
So, we asked my older son, Kai, who’s 18 years old, he’s an adult, “What is Palliative care?” ” And, he said, “End of lifecare.” I looked up the annual Medicare spending, is about one 10th that, so it’s like 10 times the annual Medicare budget.
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-lifecare, and similar consequences. They’re all Medicare beneficiaries. Eric: Yeah. Joel may know.
What separates Hospice from Home Health is the type of medical care the patient receives from each service. For instance, Home Health Care may be considered for rehabilitation or to prevent hospitalization. Hospice is indicated for end of lifecare for patients with a terminal illness. What Is Hospice Care?
Summary Transcript Summary The CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain excludes those undergoing cancer treatment, palliative care, and end-of-lifecare. But I think one aspect there was, what’s up with cancer pain, in general? Is cancer pain really different? Should we be excluding it?
Julien: He basically had an end of lifecare discussion with this patient. ” And that has 34,000 likes, which for a palliative care tweet is beyond what other tweets have achieved. He, his Twitter feed though is brilliant. It won’t take long, go get it by yourself.” Eric: Yeah. Alex: Yeah.
This broad scope allows many patients and families to access the compassionate care they need, no matter what condition they are facing. Myth 4: Hospice Care Hastens Death A common misconception is that hospice care hastens death by withholding life-sustaining treatments such as IV fluids, feeding tubes, or resuscitation efforts.
Before that healthcare was cooking along really growing and then this balanced budget act was passed in 1997 and it drastically slashed Medicare reimbursement amounts for services across the continuum. It was outta my control actually it was the balanced budget act of 1997. You know, CMS was looking to save 1.6 billion over five years.
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