Clinics in geriatric medicine
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Hospital-based palliative care teams have evolved as a natural outgrowth of the modern hospice movement. This article examines why these hospital-based palliative care programs have proliferated, how they typically function, and what data exist as to their effectiveness. Crucial steps necessary for the design and implementation of a successful hospital-based palliative care service also are reviewed.
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Palliative care services are financed by a combination of revenue from a variety of sources: hospital, nursing home, hospice, and physician. Cost avoidance is calculated based on the patterns of care of the patients seen compared with control patients. Most programs also use grants and philanthropy as part of their "mix."
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Clin. Geriatr. Med. · May 2004
ReviewChiropractic and geriatrics: a review of the training, role, and scope of chiropractic in caring for aging patients.
Chiropractors may be well-positioned to play an important role in health promotion, injury and disease prevention, and on geriatric care teams, due to their practice style and holistic philosophy. The bottom line in aging care is that someone in the health-care world must provide health promotion and preventive services to older patients before the wave of aged patients profoundly overwhelms our health-care system. Chiropractic services are safe and relatively low-cost, and patient satisfaction with them is very high. ⋯ As stated by Montes and Johnston in the Journal of Health Education: Training, as well as continual upgrading of the competencies for health educators, must include ways of dealing with the great disparities in health among populations, especially those most vulnerable and underserved. Faculty too must be prepared in ... this ever-changing health care delivery system. In a rapidly aging society, chiropractors, (along with all health professions)must prepare themselves to provide optimal health care to this important segment of our society, through excellence in chiropractic education, training,and practice.