Hospice News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

We often fill that gap with a lot of care management services, and that could be nursing, social work, pharmacy, but they’re generally going to get to know their nurse really, really well. That becomes another trusted care partner and decision maker.

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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. Hunt is a nurse practitioner and health services researcher. Live discharges occur in less than 10% of patients at nonprofit hospices, study author Lauren Hunt indicated.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. On today’s podcast, we talk to Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen about hearing loss in geriatrics and palliative care. How to screen for hearing loss.

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Diversity Nursing

JANUARY 2, 2025

The field of Nursing continues to evolve rapidly, driven by advancements in technology, shifting healthcare needs, and a focus on specialized patient care. As we look toward 2025, certain Nursing specialties stand out for their growth potential, earning opportunities, and capacity to make a meaningful impact on patient outcomes.

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Daily Nurse

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

As of February 2024, 88% of nurse practitioners are certified in primary care, and 70.3% A substantial number of nurse and family nurse practitioners fall within this category. Family nurse practitioners have a significant role in the delivery of healthcare. deliver primary care every day.

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Daily Nurse

APRIL 25, 2023

ChatGPT has many questioning its role in healthcare, specifically its use in nursing education. For example, in geriatric nursing care, AI is used for monitoring patients with dementia, detecting falls, facilitating communication, and managing medications, enhancing the overall quality and efficiency of care for older adults.

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Nurse.com

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

population ages, geriatric nurses and nurse practitioners (NPs) can make an impact. The need for geriatric nurses can be explained simply by looking at data highlighting an aging United States. Geriatric nurses are critical to our healthcare workforce.”. Attention for geriatrics. As the U.S.

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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. If you’ve ever wondered what these nurses do, why they like it, or if it’s the facet of the field that fits you, we’ve got you covered. How did you get interested in being a geriatric nurse?

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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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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

So just by the nature of prognosis there, and I think, you know, this, this is really where I think the, the value of an interdisciplinary team, which we do so well in geriatrics and palliative care, is important in thinking about approach to these patients because perspective. Ashwin 23:46 Yeah. And I love the structured approach.

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Daily Nurse

JANUARY 27, 2023

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

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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. About 27% were in skilled nursing home care with “heavy use” of home health and hospice.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

Alex 01:27 We’re delighted to welcome back Tim F a rrell, who’s a geriatrician, associate chief for Age Friendly care at the University of Utah and chair of the American Geriatric Society Ethics Committee. All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. Thanks for having me.

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Hospice News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Agape Care Names New Palliative Medical Director Agape Care Group, a portfolio company of Ridgemont Equity Partners has appointed Kari Bradford, a doctor of nursing practice, as its new palliative medical director. Patel is fellowship trained in geriatric medicine with an emphasis on palliative and end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 6, 2024

ISNPs are Medicare Advantage plans that are designed to serve beneficiaries who live in skilled nursing facilities. 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

JANUARY 24, 2024

Recruiting and retaining palliative care professionals can be a difficult feat for organizations, in part because not enough medical and nursing students are exposed to palliative care during their education. Communication and peer support elements are among the key training elements for palliative workforce sustainability and growth.

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Hospice News

MAY 15, 2024

Ashwin Kotwal, assistant professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco’s (UCSF) Division of Geriatrics.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

This is particularly true for people living in the nation’s 15,000-plus nursing homes. The grant, spread out over a five-year period, will be put toward the team’s creation of a national network structure that seeks to include more nursing home residents in clinical trials. As the U.S. Dr. Kathleen T.

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Hospice News

MAY 20, 2024

million toward nursing workforce development programs, including those supporting interdisciplinary palliative care training “to train and strengthen the palliative care nursing workforce through existing programs and activities,” according to the legislation’s language. The appropriations also allocated $302.47

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Hospice News

AUGUST 26, 2024

Landers during the last decade held executive leadership roles at Hebrew SeniorLife and Visiting Nurse Association (VNA) Health Group Inc. Landers is a board-certified physician in hospice and palliative care, as well as family and geriatric medicine. He also holds a masters degree in public health policy and management.

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

” Cornerstone Visiting Nurse Association Appoints New Hospice Care Director Lisa Nichols, a registered nurse, will serve as the new hospice care director for Cornerstone VNA in New Hampshire. She holds a Master’s degree in nursing and a certificate in executive leadership from Perdue University Global.

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Hospice News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

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

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Hospice News

MARCH 23, 2023

Facing potential out-of-pocket expenses has led to racial divides in advance care planning utilization among lower income and ethnically diverse groups, according to Dr. Deborah Freeland, assistant professor of internal medicine at UT Southwestern Medical School, Division of Geriatric Medicine, in Texas.

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Hospice News

JULY 25, 2023

Determining when a patient with Alzheimer’s and dementia is eligible for hospice care can be challenging in the face of the six-month terminal prognosis, given the unpredictable nature of these diseases, according to Keisha Mason, director of nursing at Heart’n Soul Hospice. Brody is also a registered nurse in end-of-life care.

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Hospice News

APRIL 9, 2024

Grant is also a nurse practitioner and palliative care consult service provider at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Freeland specializes in geriatrics, advance care planning and home-based primary care.

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Hospice News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A dearth of coordination or integration between rehab teams and palliative care teams routinely forces some patients into a cycle between the hospital and the nursing home in their last year of life. Older adults frequently utilize such services, often in skilled nursing facilities (SNF).

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Hospice News

AUGUST 10, 2022

Though they operate under distinct brands, the two organizations merged in 2019 to create one of the largest rural health systems in the nation, according to Rochelle Rindels, Good Samaritan’s vice president of nursing and clinical services. The clinic launched in 2020, initially serving 14 locations.

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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). This is Eric Widera.

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

A lot of times these programs are run by the incarcerated men and women, with nurses and doctors having a very small part in taking care of them.” These are things that you technically had to have a nurse present to do in many cases,” Garlock said. But it really depends on nurses as far as how much they could do, too.

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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 The integration of technology into palliative care services and research is also on the rise, according to experts.

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Hospice News

JULY 24, 2024

Palliative care is grossly underutilized in nursing home settings, but providers can develop new tools that could bring those services to more residents, a recent study has found. It’s inherent in the nature of the people we serve in the nursing home setting.

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Hospice News

AUGUST 9, 2023

Many incarcerated seniors who could benefit from palliative care do not receive adequate access or referrals to these services, according to Katherine Supiano, associate professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Utah. The prison system was never designed to become a nursing home or hospice, but it has become one.

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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 million primary care visits in 2016.

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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. Gilchrist will soon expand services with an inpatient pediatric hospice facility in Baltimore City, Md.,

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

First, we talk with Christine, a researcher and geriatrician from the University of North Carolina, who recently published a JAGS article titled Overdiagnosis of urinary tract infections by nursing home clinicians versus a clinical guideline. ” What we should say to our nurses is, “Thank you for letting me know.

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