Care Synergy Becomes National Center for Johns Hopkins’ CAPABLE Program

The hospice, palliative care, and home health network Care Synergy has become the national center for the Community Aging in Place, Advancing Better Living for Elders (CAPABLE) program, developed by Johns Hopkins University. CAPABLE is a patient-directed initiative designed to keep seniors in their homes through interventions designed to improve mobility, function, and quality of […]

Home-Based Patients Report Higher Satisfaction with End-of-Life Care

Patients who receive care in their homes at the end-of-life report higher satisfaction with the medical services provided to them than those in other settings. New data indicate that place of death may be an important quality measure for end-of-life care.  Analysis of data from the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) for 1,500 […]

Racial Disparities Persist Among Palliative Patients with Kidney Disease

Patients of color suffering from advanced kidney disease are underrepresented among palliative care patients, recent research has found. Outreach to these communities can improve patients’ quality of life as well as expand providers’ market penetration. Palliative care utilization among hospitalized patients suffering from end-stage kidney disease has risen overall, the study found, but black and […]