GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

When I’m on nursing home call, the most common page I receive is for a blood sugar value. When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. Summary Transcript Summary Diabetes is common. How high is too high?

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CareAcademy Blog

APRIL 30, 2025

Given this remarkable shift, it's clear that end-of-life care is growing in demand and with it, a need for residential hospice agencies. Hospice agencies offer a peaceful environment for people nearing the end of their lives. In 2022, 17.3% Statistics indicate that this figure will rise to 22% by 2050.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Equitable access to hospice care is hampered by disparities affecting certain racial, ethnic and socioeconomic groups, posing a challenge that extends to educating patients and families about hospice services, and identifying those with advanced illnesses sooner to maximize the benefits.

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The World According to Dr. El

MARCH 22, 2022

We spoke about the experiences that inform my thinking about long-term care, and we addressed topics such as the disconnect between mental and physical health, the moral injury and staff burnout exacerbated by the pandemic, and ways of better supporting staff, families and facilities in their efforts to provide quality care.

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Healthcare Law Insights podcast

APRIL 12, 2023

The HIPAA regulations require that covered entities enter into agreements with business associates who provide certain services for the covered entity involving the receipt, use, or disclosure of protected health information.

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NHPCO

JULY 10, 2023

For Immediate Release July 10, 2023 (Alexandria, VA) – CaringInfo.org , a program of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), is a consumer-focused website that offers information on a breadth of topics related to serious illness and end-of-life care.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Thats my main take-home point after learning from our three guests today when talking about trauma-informed care, an approach that highlights key principles including safety, trustworthiness, peer support, collaboration, empowerment, and cultural sensitivity. She is a guest host and she’s a palliative care social worker.

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Seasons Hospice

MARCH 23, 2021

Nursing services : RNs visit patients in residential homes, nursing homes and hospitals. All care is tailored toward the patient’s exact needs to help them to feel comfortable and pain-free. Physician services : Physicians help oversee the care of hospice patients. . Healthcare services.

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Seasons Hospice

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Develop a Long-Term Care Plan Creating a long-term care plan involves anticipating future needs and making arrangements for additional support or changes in the caregiving environment. Developing a plan can help you make informed decisions and reduce stress during times of transition.

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Shining Light Hospice

DECEMBER 24, 2021

The National Cancer Institute , part of the National Institutes of Health, provides valuable information on the subject of hospice care. Here is a summary: Hospice care and palliative care are not the same thing. If so, call Shining Light Hospice, an experienced provider of hospice care in Las Vegas.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. We have Alice Bonner, who’s Chair of the Moving Forward Nursing Home Quality Coalition.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

As background, we discuss Manju Kurella Tamura’s landmark NEJM paper that found, contrary to expectations, that function declines precipitously for nursing home residents who initiate dialysis. So, for example, you know, we see somebody coming in from the nursing. A nursing home. Let it be (hint hint).

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Hospice News

APRIL 7, 2025

The disparities may result from the geographic availability of high-quality hospices or the referrals that beneficiaries receive from their plans contracted hospitals and nursing homes, the researchers wrote in the study. Consumers need better information on hospice quality.

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Hospice News

MARCH 13, 2025

The seed was planted a few years ago when the parents of two of her close friends were nearing the end of life. McFadden tried to help by informing them of available care options, including hospice, and what they could expect going forward. Her jump into social media-based education came almost on a whim, she said.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2024

More than half (59%) spent the last three years of life in the home. About 27% were in skilled nursing home care with “heavy use” of home health and hospice. The remaining 14% of Medicare decedents spent these years in institutional settings, particularly in nursing facility-based care and inpatient care.

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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

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Our job is to provide that support, education, coaching, and give them their options so that they can make informed decisions that’s best for them.” Winegarner came into the field in 1976, making her one of the longest serving hospice nurses in the country.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. 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.”

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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. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

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GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

So when I was in my last year of pulmonary critical care fellowship, we had two week elective. Kate: And I kept saying, I want to do end of life care research with Scott Halpern and that’s what I did. Alex: So the proven trial was that the video in the nursing homes? Kate: Yeah, the nursing homes.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Ideally, there’ll be a place in the chart that actually captures the name of that person and their contact information. I have done a lot of work on POLST and nursing homes and I’ve seen POLST forms. So for seven years, that person had been treated in accordance with that plan of care.

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AJN Off the Charts

APRIL 7, 2023

Aggressive care common in nursing homes at end of life. The other recent JAMA study ran in February: Incidence of Aggressive End-of-Life Care Among Older Adults With Metastatic Cancer Living in Nursing Homes and Community Settings. Nearly 10% of the 1.5 Sound familiar?

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Fried: I think end-of-life care truly needs to be reimagined. Our patient portal is just really pulling out information for our patients that makes it very easy for the patient to see when their visits are, what to expect, who’s going to be coming. Cheryl, I know you’ve done some work in this area. Let me see.

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Hospice News

MAY 18, 2023

Accord has staged other performances at nursing homes and senior living facilities, and in school buildings and other community spaces that have enough room for the actors and audience. Most of these performances have audiences of 15 to 25 people. His plays have been performed nationally, and 13 have been published.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Please read full disclosur e for more information. End-of-life care is intimate and unique for every patient. As a nurse, when your patient dies, you might be thinking now what should I do? To make matters worse, I had never performed end-of-life care. (I Pronouncement During End-of-Life Care.

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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. And we found that the overwhelming majority of them came from home.

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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

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. Absolutely.

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Hospice Nurse Hero

JANUARY 30, 2024

Time Management Strategies For Hospice Nurses: DAILY ESSENTIALS To start the day on the right foot, hospice nurses should ensure they have essential information and supplies readily available. You can also clean and stock your nursing bag before you wrap up for the day. With your own eyes!!

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

I was alone with her in the end of a long hallway at a nursing home health center. And then, I did a lot of introspection and realized that I’ve actually been doing this for folks in an informal way, family church members and friends, but I didn’t do it so well with my own mother. That dawned on me.

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Kindful Hospice

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

To provide for the greatest care for the patient, hospice care is typically offered in the home or administered in a hospital or a nursing home. Teams of people participate in hospice care. As such it is more of a modality that is not tied to a specific clinic or place. Hospice Myth vs Fact.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 6, 2022

You’re getting them with a little teeny slice of their information and you’re just trying to build some willingness for them to hear more. When you think about this and this toolkit, are there some really basic marketing ideas or tips that you have when we think about messaging, advance care planning, hospice or palliative care.

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Seasons Hospice

JULY 15, 2022

Finally, hospice care teams can provide mental support to both patients and their families. For patients, this may include providing information about their illness and its progression. Hospice care teams can also offer support in decision-making, as patients and their families navigate treatment options and end-of-life choices.

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The Nurse Break

MARCH 20, 2023

This was probably my initiation into my lifelong commitment to person-centred care. Nursing Homes and Perceived Failure In between I worked as an EN in a nursing home before returning to NSW. Nursing Homes provided greater flexibility in rostering than did hospitals. What a reward!

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Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

We put the information off of floppy and mail that out, and then it was a CD rom that we mailed out and then it was email and then finally it was online learning. So I’ve always had deep respect for, for the knowledge and skills they bring, whether it’s at the hospital or nursing home, home health, hospice, home care.

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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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Shining Light Hospice

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Without these vital communications in the brain cells occurring, a decline in speech, communication, concentration, information processing, and overall functions will ensue. We will take an in-depth look at what symptoms indicate that it may be time for hospice, and how a patient can benefit from hospice care for dementia.

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