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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. It’s a very, I think, appropriate amount that people end up using that particular benefit. And it’s amazing. Connie 31:36 Particularly for people with dementia.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

How is it financed and what comes next? I think Bruce can speak to that, I think, 30-year gap in finances. If someone needs imaging, if someone needs an MR, or CT, you bring them back to the hospital, so there’s some transport costs there. Yeah, Eric: Yeah. But let me ask, why, personally, did you get interested in this?

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