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Long-Term Care Insurance and Senior In-Home Care

Freedom Home Care and Medical Staffing

Understanding Long-Term Care Insurance Long-term care insurance is designed to help individuals cover the costs associated with various forms of extended care, including nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and in-home care.

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4 Ways Home Health Agencies Can Benefit Seniors

Comfort Home Care

As we saw during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, seniors living in nursing homes and other residential facilities face a significantly higher risk of contracting diseases. Aging in place with the assistance of qualified caregivers provides significant benefits as compared to living in a nursing home or residential facility.

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Hospice Documentation What You Need to Know

Hospice Nurse Hero

First, like all nurses, hospice nurses are required to document ALL patient care. Related Article: 3 Common Mistakes Hospice Nurses Make and How to Avoid Them. It also outlines the plan of care, serves as a communication tool, and supports your nursing actions. Truth be told, I used to be “corporate.”. (D

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Managing Urinary Symptoms and UTI’s in Older Adults

GeriPal

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. ” What we should say to our nurses is, “Thank you for letting me know.

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New Prognostic Models for Older Adults: Alex Lee, James Deardorff, Sei Lee

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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. And we’ve been slowly building that out. That’s been reported previously.

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

GeriPal

Next, we talk with James Deardorff about whether we can accurately predict nursing home level of care in community-dwelling older adults with dementia. Alex 16:46 On time to nursing, needing nursing home level of care. That just leads to issues that can make home care very difficult for these individuals.