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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

Now when I say variation, I’m not talking about small little clinically questionable variations. She’s a geriatric nurse practitioner specializing in palliative care, and assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. Joan: A lot of my work comes out of my clinical practice. Joan: Thanks.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

How is it financed and what comes next? That’s focused on older adults who are too frail to get into clinic. In that clinical experience, we saw a lot of older adults who would develop acute illness, often exacerbations of their chronic conditions. We had, since the late seventies, a home-based primary care program.

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