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

GeriPal

That’s a problem in our healthcare financing system. I was like, how do you disseminate this knowledge out to these community nursing homes in rural Georgia so that people know about this? Caroline: Certainly, the pandemic has certainly catalyzed the use of telehealth. We didn’t respond.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

You know, I work in the VA and we have somebody who doesn’t have the finances to support a stay in a nursing home and they’re on hospice. Eric 33:25 What about telehealth? It’s a very, I think, appropriate amount that people end up using that particular benefit. And it’s amazing. Cari 33:27 It’s so tough.