Podcasts

Does your agency currently run a home-based palliative care program? If so, are you struggling to at least break even? Does a deficit prevent you from growing your program the way you want? Or [...]

Many providers of home care have added new service lines since their agencies began. The logic has been solid – diversify offerings so the agency isn’t dependent on a single service, generate new [...]

For decades, palliative care has been an enigma. This vital service that relieves pain and suffering to greatly improve quality of life is woefully misunderstood, delivered in a zillion different [...]

What experience and research tell us about solving home care’s greatest cause of turnover. One of the key takeaways from our latest research, Closing the Satisfaction Gap in Senior Care’s [...]

Remote monitoring is becoming increasingly integral to empowering more independent living among seniors, and to enable efficiencies among shrinking ranks of professional caregivers. This blog and [...]

As the Hospital-at-Home care model is gaining traction, does your agency have an opportunity to play a role and expand your patient base? In this blog post and embedded podcast, you’ll hear from [...]

Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz said it repeatedly: “There’s no place like home.” When most Americans are sick, they feel that sentiment more deeply. They want to be in their own bed, in [...]

For decades, people with a serious illness or rehab needs have preferred to stay at home if it’s medically possible. And when most people think of “home care” or “home health,” they think of [...]

Not long ago, a palliative care practitioner I was talking with summed up one of the specialty’s conundrums perfectly. He said, “If you ask 10 practitioners of palliative care to define it, [...]

A particularly poignant moment happened during my recent interview with Ronit Elk, PhD. We were discussing her incredibly important research and pilot program delving into culturally based [...]