UD senior Logan Schlag focuses on locomotor learning during summer research
If you or anyone close to you is among the world’s estimated 100 million people who have survived a stroke — a disease that causes blood clots or ruptured blood vessels, disrupting blood flow in the brain — you probably already know that strategic, effective rehabilitative care is critical for the best possible recovery. (more…)
Because of a Medicare policy that prevents simultaneous reimbursement for skilled nursing and hospice care, many families cannot choose hospice for loved ones who reside in nursing homes. The result, new research shows, is that residents with advanced dementia who have Medicare skilled nursing home care without any hospice care have a far greater likelihood of dying in the hospital and receiving aggressive treatments such as feeding tubes or physical therapy within weeks of death.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A Medicare rule that blocks thousands of nursing home residents from receiving simultaneous reimbursement for hospice and skilled nursing facility (SNF) care at the end of life may result in those residents receiving more aggressive treatment and hospitalization, according a new analysis. (more…)
