Feeding Long-term care Medicare 
Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder
APRIL 24, 2025
In the FY 2026 Skilled Nursing Facility Proposed Rule, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is requesting feedback on a potential quality measure focused on nutrition. OTs support self-feeding and fine motor function. Its become a symbol of nourishment, community and healing. And this spring, its also timely.
GeriPal
MARCH 14, 2024
We talk with them about the epidemiology, assessment, and management of dysphagia, including the role of modifying the consistency of food and liquids, feeding tubes, and the role of dysphagia rehabilitation like tongue and cough strengthening. He doesn’t prescribe thickened liquids, because he just puts in feeding tubes in everybody.
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Traditions Health
AUGUST 21, 2023
Payment options include private pay and long-term care insurance. To find home care services that fit your budget, consider the duration and frequency of care and the tasks you need help with. Cost savings Home health care is more affordable than staying at a hospital or long-term care facility.
Home Care Pulse
AUGUST 11, 2022
The care at home industry is also the only environment where long-term care providers are expected to deliver care to all their patients between the hours of 9 a.m. We have to question everything if we are going to meet the needs of the future,” Matt Kroll, President of Assistive Care Services at BAYADA explains.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
He wants to know what do you guys think about the effect of private equity on hospice and long-term care? She asks If you were the Czar of Geriatric care and were handed $7 trillion- Alex: Whoa, $7 trillion Anne: To improve the health of seniors in the United States, how would you spend it? Eric: Not on amyloid drugs.
GeriPal
MARCH 10, 2022
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.
GeriPal
JANUARY 18, 2024
And Katie, I was going through your Twitter feed, and a tweet I noticed was this one, “All opioid guidelines caution long-term use in people with active substance use disorder.” Eric: Just for the aging population, what about long-term care? Is cancer pain really different? Katie: Absolutely.
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