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Some Families May Not Access Hospice Without Caregiver Support

Hospice News

The financial burden on caregivers is associated with a range of negative outcomes , according to a 2020 BMC Palliative Care study. The program includes training in medical caregiving aspects such as oxygen application, tube feeding, tracheostomy care and nonmedical needs such meal preparation, bathing, housekeeping and incontinence care.

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Choice Health CEO Jackson: Instant Care Deal an Extraordinary Opportunity in Non-Medical Home Care

Hospice News

Its supportive services include assistance with daily activities, housekeeping, meal preparation, feeding and transportation. In 2020 Choice partnered with Trive Capital and Coltala Holdings, widening its reach as a post-acute care company. In addition to Arizona, Choice operates in Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma.

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“I’m Going to Match!” A Tale of Nurses, Mentoring, and a Lifetime Bond

Minority Nurse

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. She served on dissertation committees for Chicas in 2020 and (at the University of Cincinnati) for McCauley in 1988. I’m not a philanthropy.

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How technology can help agencies prioritize risk management in the age of data

AlayaCare

According to this HHCN article , home-based care accounted for more than 20 percent of claims against nurses in 2020 – up from about 12 percent just five years prior. While ensuring that your data is secure from misappropriation is at the core of your security efforts, the new reality is that this is no longer sufficient.

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Understanding and Managing Grief, February 9 - February 15, 2025

Grief Healing Blog

Best selections from Grief Healing's X feed this week: While there's no single right way to navigate loss, for many, having support from others can make the grieving process a bit easier, research shows. A 2020 review analyzed over a dozen studies on bereavement groups for grief and depression symptoms.

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Trauma-Informed Care: A Podcast with Mariah Robertson, Kate Duchowny, and Ashwin Kotwal

GeriPal

I’m just thinking we all went through a major traumatic event in 2020 and the subsequent years. Eric 04:55 Does it need an experience directly? Is something that happens to you directly or could you experience indirectly? So we all went through a pandemic. I guess that’s an event.

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POLST Evidence and Update: Kelly Vranas, Abby Dotson, Karl Steinberg, and Scott Halpern

GeriPal

As you mentioned, it was published in JAGS in 2020, and we really started from the time of inception of POLST, so in the early 1990s, up until about February 2020 was the date that we cut off. And whether tube feeding should be on there, that’s never an emergency decision. I think it was Bob Lee’s 2020 JAGS paper.

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