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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

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I heard this beautiful thing the other day, which was to an electronic medical record, I am not a whole person. And what we’re trying to do is bring back whole person thinking, whole person care with dementia as kind of at the leading edge of doing that. By definition, you have dementia, you may not be able to.

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Ep.17: How Home Care Agencies Can Reduce Hospital Readmissions

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Next steps are, you know, our registered nurses and you know, us in New Jersey here, we, you know, operate with registered nurses for our, you know, home health aide supervision and, and personal care. Laura Coyle ( 07:01 ): You know, they are going in at the start of care, looking at the home. Are they safe?

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The Ultimate Guide to Caregiver Training in 2022

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How to motivate your caregivers with it: You can be known as the agency that prepares, equips, and advances their employees simply by reconstructing your definition of training. Use training as an opportunity to build your caregivers into confident experts from the ground up, while simultaneously improving your clients’ care and satisfaction.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

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Than someone who is perhaps dependent on all their ADLs. The folks who became homeless late in life became chronically homeless, because chronic homelessness is by definition being homeless for more than a year, more or less, and having a disabled condition. They might need a couple hours a day of personal care.