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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. This includes transportation, driver’s license, parks, volunteerism, housing, and of course health and human services. But, what you need is a community-based game there. You go back home.

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

GeriPal

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. So I think what’s really exciting is that these community-based organizations, some of those groups that provide training, transportation, respite care, all of that was never included.

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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. For the most part, programs are doing, twice a day, nursing visits. They’re doing, once a day, either MD, or MP, or nurse practitioner visits in the home as well.

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