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Key Research Trends: State CON Laws, Dementia Patient Trajectories Reshaping Hospice

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Data are reshaping the health care space, and hospice is no exception. Hospice providers have needed a window into access and utilization, as well as how lawmakers are shaping policies around health care. Data on CON laws has taken on new significance as regulators zero in on the hospice space.

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Bloom Healthcare CEO: Integrating Palliative Care Into Every Decision

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It reduces a lot of the wasteful spending inside of the health care system, and it sets us up for that kind of better interdisciplinary approach towards the end of life, where we can bring in hospice. They’re signing me now to hospice, and I’m going there to die. That becomes another trusted care partner and decision maker.

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

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In day-to-day practice, It’s hard to imagine providing excellent hospice or palliative care services without access to a team social worker. Whether in direct practice or in research and academia, we should work together to help Hospice and Palliative Care Social Work meet its full potential. . Transcript.

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Intentionally Interprofessional Care: DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace

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Of note: these lessons apply to geriatrics, primary care, hospital medicine, critical care, cancer care, etc, etc. Alex 01:39 And C ara Wallace, who is a hospice social worker and endowed chair and professor in the St. I’m thinking about, you know, I come from the hospice world where we had our, you know, idts.

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How Value-Based Care, Investors Could Impact Palliative Care Staffing

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Nathan Goldstein, currently professor of geriatrics and palliative medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. We’re seeing more and more nurse training programs, more social work training programs, etc., We’re seeing more and more nurse training programs, more social work training programs, etc.,

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

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Cudjoe’s recent work demonstrating the impact of social isolation on dementia risk , populations at risk , and how our social lives “getting under our skin.” ” Dr. Kotwal’s work showing how social isolation impacts end-of-life health care use , including hospice and acute care.

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Involving the inner circle: Emily Largent, Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint & Anne Kelly

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I’d hazard that maybe half the patients I care for at the intersection of geriatrics and palliative care fall in the gray zone. Invoking this principle, Emily argues for an expanded role for patients in the gray area and their inner circle working together along a spectrum of cooperative decision-making.