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Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing
AUGUST 28, 2023
In this article, we will delve into the realm of long-term care insurance and focus on the coverage it provides for in-home care or home health aides. For long-term care to be covered by insurance, most policy holders have to require help with at least two different ADLs or have cognitive impairment.
Comfort Home Care
AUGUST 30, 2022
Our article will help you better understand the differences in training and skill level of the various caregivers you will find in-home care services. A personal care assistant, or PCA, helps the elderly, those with disabilities, and those recovering from an illness or accident with the activities of daily living, or ADLs.
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Hospice Nurse Hero
JANUARY 26, 2022
Attitude about documenting in front of the patient Short staffing Unclear understanding of hospice rules/regulations Lack of nursing experience (new to hospice) Inappropriate assignments (new nurse with complex patients) Travel time (rural vs nursing home vs inpatient) Too many patients. Hospice Charting Fundamentals.
GeriPal
JUNE 16, 2022
First, we talk with Christine, a researcher and geriatrician from the University of North Carolina, who recently published a JAGS article titled Overdiagnosis of urinary tract infections by nursing home clinicians versus a clinical guideline. Transcript. Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal podcast. This is Eric Widera. Is that right?
GeriPal
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
First, we’ve invited Jerry Gurwitz to talk about his recently published article in JAMA titled The Paradoxical Decline of Geriatric Medicine as a Profession (while it’s not the most upbeat title for the future of geriatrics, Jerry sees it as a call to action). I was going to start off by asking Jerry about why he wrote the JAMA article.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 26, 2023
Eric: And Sarguni for you coming in as a hospitalist, as a researcher, probably a lot of hospitalists have never actually walked into a skilled nursing facility before. And so I became more interested in what are the outcomes of patients with cancer when they do go to a nursing facility? Eric: I felt that reading the article.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 27, 2022
ePrognosis started out as just a list of different prognostic indices, so things to predict mortality in hospitalized adults, things to predict mortality in community dwelling adults, things to predict mortality in nursing home residents. Eric: Okay, I’m going to jump to the articles. It’s a more sensitive subject.
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