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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. Eric: Which is, so let’s say I am a provider, a healthcare provider taking, let’s say a nurse practitioner working in an older, a clinic that’s mainly caring for older adults.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

But what happened when we finally… When he did get the diagnosis, it all fell into place. You come over to the clinic, you go to the hospital, you provide service, and the insurance and you negotiate how much you’re going to get paid. They can be nurse if you want to. They can be advanced nurse practitioner.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

In that clinical experience, we saw a lot of older adults who would develop acute illness, often exacerbations of their chronic conditions. The other way to think about who’s eligible… I talked about coming at this from a diagnosis point of view, people with certain conditions that you need to be hospitalized for.

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