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The Senior Living Opportunity for Hospices

Hospice News

My generation, baby boomers, were not going to a nursing home. million total patients, according to the National Alliance for Care at Home. Were looking at assisted living, senior living, that sort of thing, Ponder Stansel told Hospice News. In 2022, more than 907,000 Medicare hospice decedents were older than 85, out of 1.7

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Future Leaders: Lindsay Nixon, Administrator, Arbor Hospice

Hospice News

The Future Leaders Awards program is brought to you in partnership with Homecare Homebase. The program is designed to recognize up-and-coming industry members who are shaping the next decade of home health, hospice care, senior housing, skilled nursing, and behavioral health. To see this year’s Future Leaders, visit [link].

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Addus Sees Hospice Improvements, Plans to Rebalance Home Health-Personal Care M&A Activity

Hospice News

Addus HomeCare Corporation’s (NASDAQ: ADUS) hospice segment is seeing slow but steady improvement as pandemic headwinds ease. Meanwhile, the company’s near-term acquisition sights are set more on home health than in personal care amid potential payment shifts.

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Hospice Length of Stay: Balancing Patient Needs Against Regulatory Compliance

Hospice News

Researchers from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Ohio analyzed data for cancer patients between 2013 to 2017, finding that aggressive care in the last 30 days of life was more common among nursing home residents than community-dwelling older adults, at 64% versus 58%, respectively.

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When is it time to hire in-home care?

Euro-American Connections & Homecare

A change in functioning doesn’t necessarily mean a move to assisted living or a nursing home, but it does indicate a need for extra help to support one’s desire to age in place. Here are 5 questions to ask yourself when trying to determine if your aging loved one needs extra assistance at home.

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5 Ways to Support the Nurse-Caregiver Relationship

Home Care Pulse

The Nurse-Nursing Assistant Relationship: A Priceless Partnership. Some nurses take a supervisory role in homecare, supporting and coordinating various client-facing job functions, making them as important to the staff they support as they are to the clients in their care. Nursing assistant turnover rates.

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Pennsylvania Home Care Recipients Advocate for Better Access to Home Care

Hearts for Home Care

Since COVID shined a light on major drawbacks of congregate living facilities like nursing homes and institutions, it is not just the elderly population that are choosing to be cared for at home. This is great news for the hundreds of thousands of individuals and families who prefer to age at home rather than in a facility.