Study gives credence to range of dementia caregiver decision tools
By
Kristen Fischer
Feb 27, 2024
A new study analyzes some evidence-backed tools to help substitute decision-makers make choices to honor an individual’s medical, personal and end-of-life wishes. Instead of having separate resources,...
Review: Data sparse on challenges unpaid caregivers face
By
Kristen Fischer
Feb 08, 2024
A review of 85 studies regarding the impact of caring for older people in family, or unpaid, caregivers was not conclusive. Even though the researchers assessed a lot of data, they would like to see more...
Caregiver training CPT codes finalized for CY 2024
By
Renee Kinder
Nov 09, 2023
In July we were pleased to share that the CY 2024 Payment Policies under the Physician Fee Schedule held exciting news for therapists and caregivers. These have now officially been finalized for use beginning...
Caregiving comes with lower death risk, higher financial costs
By
Kristen Fischer
Nov 08, 2023
Caregivers have a lower risk of death yet pay a high financial price, according to two new reports.
Caregiver training CPT codes proposed for CY 2024
By
Renee Kinder
Jul 20, 2023
The newly released CY 2024 Payment Policies under the Physician Fee Schedule holds exciting news for therapists and caregivers. We have three new codes to be used for reporting the total duration...
Essential caregiver visitation rights would be guaranteed during public health emergencies under new...
By
Danielle Brown
Jul 01, 2021
Long-term care providers would be required to ensure essential caregivers have continued visitation access during future public health emergencies under a new bipartisan proposal.
A new SCAN Foundation campaign aims to provide support and provoke discussion or the 10 million millennials who currently act as family caregivers, group executives said.
Change the approach of dementia care
By
Kerry Mills
Mar 09, 2015
Professional care partners have the desire to see residents flourish using best care practices but lack the education. Once they begin to employ the new techniques, they are shocked to see how residents...
3 ways facility-based provider organizations can innovate
By
Anne Tumlinson
Jan 05, 2015
Current modes of long-term care service delivery, such as assisted living, nursing home and private duty home care providers, will lose unless they begin to innovate a patient-centered, setting-agnostic...
The silver lining in the caregiver crisis
By
Mary Helen McSweeney-Feld, Ph.D.
Dec 04, 2013
As we enter the holiday season, AARP’s recent report on caregiving highlights the impact of changing demographics in American households: there will be dramatic shortages of paid and unpaid caregivers...