Daily Nurse

JANUARY 27, 2023

Still, one avenue of care you may not consider is geriatric mental health. When we imagine the professionals caring for aging Veterans, we often immediately think of doctors, nurses, and pharmacists. As our Veteran population ages, those who […]

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

Physicians in training need greater exposure to geriatric training in order to better grasp the needs of older patients, including during transitions to hospice, according to Dr. Julia Lowenthal, a geriatrician from Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

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Daily Nurse

JUNE 5, 2023

While some nurses feel pulled into treating children, others love to care for those in their later years by working in the geriatric field. She has more than 37 years of experience in geriatric nursing care, both as a senior care nurse and director of nursing care, and she took the time to answer our questions. What drew you to it?

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Hospice News

JANUARY 26, 2024

Many elderly Americans follow one of three place of care trajectories during the last three years of life, researchers from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, found in a study recently published in BMC Geriatrics. These include the home, skilled home care and institutional care.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Honing palliative skills can be a constantly moving target when considering patient populations needs, according to Dr. Shellie Williams, geriatric and palliative medicine physician and associate professor of medicine at the University of Chicago. Williams is also a fellow of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM).

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Though social determinants can take time and resources to build into palliative care programs, they come with a strong return on investment, according to Dr. Yaquta Patni, wound care and geriatric care physician at Innovative Geriatrics.

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Aging Life Care Association

JANUARY 23, 2023

Alisa Kaufman, a dentist specializing in geriatric care, shares her expertise to help caregivers become more confident in providing daily oral care to seniors — whether by brushing, flossing and using picks, or removing and cleaning full or partial dentures. Below is first in a two-part series of a caregivers guide to oral care.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Aliviado Health’s program is part of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing (HIGN) at New York University’s (NYU) Rory Meyers College of Nursing. Hospice of the Chesapeake also collaborated with Aliviado Health, an organization that provides dementia education and training resources to home health and hospice providers.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Post-affiliation, the combined hospice will offer hospice, geriatric and palliative care, as well as pediatric services, grief care, dementia support, music therapy, veterans’ program and culturally specific initiatives. About 25,271 Medicare decedents in 2021 elected the hospice benefit, according to the U.S.

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GeriPal

MARCH 4, 2024

The post #HPMParty is returning to Phoenix during the 2024 AAHPM/HPNA meeting appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Also, if you have trainees coming to the meeting, encourage them to come. The best networking happens when the convention center closes!

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Hospice News

MARCH 13, 2024

The trend points to ways that patients might receive palliative services through new avenues, such as geriatrics, primary care or home health care. A range of medical specialties are incorporating palliative care principles into their care models.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Patel is fellowship trained in geriatric medicine with an emphasis on palliative and end-of-life care. Stacy Kreger, a nurse practitioner has an extensive background in geriatric and hospice care, the company indicated in a press release. The new hires follow the retirement of hospice physician Dr. Mark Silver.

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Hospice News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The four-person board includes experts in palliative care, geriatric oncology, health policy , care delivery, predictive analytics and health care innovation from health systems, cancer centers, and research institutions.

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Hospice News

MAY 15, 2024

The findings suggest that traumatized terminally ill patients may have a multitude of greater physical, psychosocial and emotional needs compared to others, according to researcher Dr. Ashwin Kotwal, assistant professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco’s (UCSF) Division of Geriatrics.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Roughly 5 to 8 million older adults nationwide have one or more mental health conditions, according to research from the supplement Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (JAGS). That really plays into pain, symptom and medication management in these patients’ experiences.” This number is projected to triple over the next three decades.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2024

Landers is a board-certified physician in hospice and palliative care, as well as family and geriatric medicine. He most recently served as president of the consulting and advisory company Landers StratAGEy. He also holds a masters degree in public health policy and management.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2024

Katz Professor and chair of the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Mount Sinai. Sean Morrison, director at the National Palliative Care Research Center (NPCRC). Morrison is also the Ellen and Howard C. More research has been long overdue to improve clinical palliative care training models, Morrison said.

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Hospice News

APRIL 30, 2024

We implemented the caregiver self assessment questionnaire, which is a validated brief metric developed by the American Geriatric Society. About 50% of respondents indicated that they did not feel confident identifying caregiver burnout and that a screening tool would be helpful, according to Certo. ‘We

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Hospice News

JULY 30, 2024

Anand Iyer, a pulmonary critical care physician scientist and associate professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine; the Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics, and Palliative Care; and the School of Nursing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).

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Hospice News

AUGUST 6, 2024

In addition, they offer very complementary service lines with their PACE programming, their home health and hospice programming and their geriatric practice.”

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Landers is a board-certified physician in hospice and palliative care, as well as family and geriatric medicine. Prior to that he was CEO of the home health and hospice provider Visiting Nurse Association (VNA) Health Group Inc. He also holds a masters degree in public health policy and management.

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Katz Professor and chair of the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Mount Sinai. Sean Morrison, director at the National Palliative Care Research Center (NPCRC). Morrison is also the Ellen and Howard C. Live discharges occur in less than 10% of patients at nonprofit hospices, study author Lauren Hunt indicated.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 18, 2022

Maryland-based hospice and palliative care provider Gilchrist recently formed a joint venture with the hospital system Luminis Health to expand the full scope of senior and geriatric care in the state’s southern region. It’s taken a lot of time and work together, but it’s going to be worth it for the patients,” said Schwartz. “We

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Aging Life Care Association

JUNE 6, 2024

Founded in 1985 by a handful of geriatric care social workers in New York City, the organization has grown to be nationwide and includes educated professionals … Continue reading LGBTQIA Care Managers in Care Management → The post LGBTQIA Care Managers in Care Management appeared first on Aging Life Care Association.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

We’re really taking care of the primary care needs of a patient over the last three to five years of life, and that is a very palliative time when we have to be thinking about deprescribing, building care plans, about what matters most, taking a lot of geriatric principles into mind.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 12, 2023

Alex: We are delighted to welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Kellie Flood, who is a geriatrician at the University of Alabama Birmingham and associate Chief Quality Officer for Geriatrics and Care Transitions. And also to have those folks proactively assessing and addressing geriatric syndromes. Kellie, welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

Our mission is to build expert teams who can then provide expert care and an extra layer of support to persons living with dementia and their care partners,” researcher Ab Brody, associate director and founder of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at Aliviado Health. “Our Brody is also a registered nurse in end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 9, 2024

Freeland specializes in geriatrics, advance care planning and home-based primary care. Medicare Advantage beneficiary demographics have been changing in a positive direction in terms of reducing disparities among underserved populations, Freeland said.

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Hospice News

JANUARY 30, 2023

The move toward risk-based reimbursement systems is partly fueling a resurgence in home-based primary care, according to a 2018 study in the journal Geriatrics. A number of hospices have launched their own programs or partnerships with other providers. Patients in the United States received more than 2.2

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Hospice News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Mayo has focused on geriatric care for 17 years, completing a residency in family practice at Bethesda St. Croix Hospice in 2014 as an associate medical director. The Minnesota-headquartered hospice provider is a portfolio company of the private equity firm H.I.G. Joe’s Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota and going on to practice in St.

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Aging Life Care Association

MAY 19, 2023

Sometimes called geriatric care managers, Aging Life Care Managers are strategic planners with key knowledge in crisis intervention, housing, health and disability, advocacy, family legal needs, and financial and local resources.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Building partnerships with other providers can help mitigate these barriers, according to Dr. Nathan Goldstein, professor of geriatrics and palliative medicine for the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

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Hospice News

MAY 3, 2023

Landers, a physician certified in family, geriatric and hospice and palliative medicine, has been president and CEO of VNA Health Group since 2012.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Sharon Brangman, who is a SUNY Distinguished Service professor and chair of the Department of Geriatrics and director of the Center of Excellence for Alzheimer’s Disease. The field of geriatrics has been, I would say, somewhat negative on these drugs. ” Eric: Nice. So I agree.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 10, 2022

We decided to stand up this clinic, got some of the providers that worked in the older adult geriatric sector and really looked at what skill mix would be needed there.”. The mobile clinic is staffed with physicians, nurse practitioners, and other mid-level providers, according to Tess.

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Alex 00:16 Today we’re delighted to welcome George K u c hel, who is a geriatrician and chief of geriatrics and director of the UConn center on Aging at the University of Connecticut. Is this just a bladder problem, or is this a bigger geriatric syndrome problem? But the geriatric syndrome is really a condition of late life.

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Hospice News

MAY 29, 2024

However, he also emphasized the challenge of deploying skilled professionals to the home-based arena, where he said the best providers typically have combined skills in primary care, palliative care and even geriatrics. “We

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