GeriPal
JUNE 5, 2025
Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. Furthermore, only about half of nursing home residents nearing the end of life receive hospice care. So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? Like, what does that part look like?
GeriPal
DECEMBER 21, 2023
He created fee for service, special fee for depression. 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. They can be nurse if you want to. They can be advanced nurse practitioner.
GeriPal
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
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. 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.
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