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IN-PEACE Palliative Care-Dementia Program Reduced Hospital Care by 50%

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Sachs is also chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics at the Indiana University School of Medicine. That’s really a model that’s grown up over the last 20 years that still has been difficult to implement into practice. And so the CMS GUIDE model is actually providing a funding source.

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Workplace Safety as an Ethical Imperative in Nursing

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“How do we honor the role of the nurse by building systems that reflect the same level of commitment they bring to patient care?” This misalignment diminishes professional role clarity , fosters cognitive dissonance in nurses professional role identity, and ultimately strains their commitment to the nursing profession.

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Brigham Young Geriatrician: Physician Residents Need to Learn Hospice Principles, Senior’s Specific Needs

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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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Advance Care Planning Billing Rules Impede Equitable Access

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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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Capital Caring Health to Expand Home-Based Primary Care Service

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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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How Palliative Care Is Changing in Today’s Health Care Environment

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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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How Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Built an Award-Winning Palliative Program

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Wu added that with only 10 members, the palliative care team is “small but mighty” and includes physicians, a nurse practitioner, a nurse social worker, a pharmacist, a chaplain and an administrator.

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