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JANUARY 20, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In April 2022, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) issued a report on how the United States delivers, regulates, finances, and measures the quality of nursing home care. Eric: I’m going to push you on that. What does that look like? It’s just these clicks.

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Emily is a bioethicist in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. And then we were involved, palliative care was consulted when the patient was really sick and decompensating in the ICU. And I know we’re talking a lot about medical decision making. That can all start with you.”

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And assisted living doesn’t offer the same level of medical supportive services as nursing homes. That services need to be in the building, I think is an important one to talk about because people in nurses nursing homes do have a lot of medical issues. And so we do have consultants who come in the building.

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That’s a problem in our healthcare financing system. Ruth: Then we saw at the other extreme where people thought that feeding tubes prolonged life, improved quality of life, made it easier to give medications, which it does do, and that they should be used. And there’s really no reimbursable system for that.

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