GeriPal
MARCH 20, 2025
To delve into these questions, we spoke with Hope Wechkin, medical director of EvergreenHealth home hospice, who authored an article describing a process of Minimal Comfort Feeding (MCF) for patients who have expressed an interest in not wanting to live with advanced dementia. Eric 01:13 Yeah, you got to jump in. Take it over.
GeriPal
MARCH 10, 2022
For a deeper dive, check out some of these other studies and resources we talked about in the podcast: The Influence of Nursing Home Culture on the Use of Feeding Tubes. Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Rehabbed to Death. Ruth: Oh, thanks.
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Minority Nurse
JULY 8, 2022
They feed us, and I think we need to value them more and recognize their worth, and they should be treated with dignity and given the same benefits that sometimes we take for granted. From 2005 to 2010, they teamed-up on a protective immunity project studying aspects of the immune system in kidney transplant patients.
Nurse.com
JUNE 1, 2023
As I worked, I watched the LPNs and RNs administer meds, care for wounds, give tube feedings, etc. “I I received my BSN in 2010. In those days, the nursing home trained nursing assistants and you didn’t have to be certified. I can do that,” I’d say to myself. To this day, I’m still friend with some classmates from that school.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Like us, subscribe to us on your podcast feed. And, Taylor wrote this song when she was at… She thought she was at the top of her game in 2010. And, if you want to support this effort, if you’ve drunk the Kool-Aid or ate the hot sauce of the Geriatrics and Palliative care, there are so many ways you can help.
AlayaCare
MAY 10, 2018
They are: A 2010 Ernst & Young study that calculated this model can save costs per patient by up to 40% as compared to regular home care agencies. The right technology is imperative to keep things streamlined, with everything from paperless reporting, to managing schedules, to keeping track of client preferences and more.
Go Hire - HomeCare
MAY 14, 2024
Jonathan Duarte: All jess, don't remember how long ago we met, but I would gather it was about, I think good, my good, no, it was before GoHire days so 2010, I don't know, around there. They may even have a scheduled interview, but we're not feeding that, those videos about the company and the culture. Jonathan Duarte: Yep.
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