Tag: post-acute care
Finding A Good Death – Understanding and Shopping For Hospice Care
Background Like most issues about which I post, the topic of “Finding A Good Death” arose from a personal connection. In this case when a neighbor consulted me about his sister who was being referred to hospice care after battling cancer. While not an expert in hospice care, I have long studied seniors housing and…
The Cost of Care
Raw Cost of Care The chart below shows the average monthly cost of care for skilled nursing (nursing home), memory care (dementia), assisted living and independent living facilities in the Baltimore/Washington region for 2015. It also shows the cost for 24 hour / 7 day a week home health aide care and 24/7 home…
Layman’s Guide To Post Acute Care
I had a conversation with a friend today who has a relative that is comatose after a surgical procedure. The patient has recently been shifted from a feeding tube though the nose to one connected to the stomach and is about to be transitioned from oxygen through a breathing tube to a ventilator connected directly…