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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

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. The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. Rehabbed to Death. Ruth: Oh, thanks.

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Paying Your Care Staff More Won’t Keep Them Around Longer—Here are 4 Solutions that Will, According to the Experts

Home Care Pulse

Article Contents: – Introduction. – Why Leaving the Care Industry is Like Moving Out of California. Keep Your Care Staff Engaged Through a Recession. Invest in Solutions that Simplify the Experience for Care Staff and Clients. – Replace Temporary Fixes with Long-Term Solutions.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

We got a couple of articles to discuss and a lot of different components of this. I was wondering, because Alex did mention that we talked with Jessie before about whether or not we should be teaching some of this stuff in palliative care fellowships. Eric: Which brings us to an article. Is cancer pain really different?

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Dysphagia Revisited: A Podcast with Raele Donetha Robison and Nicole Rogus-Pulia

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We talk with them about the epidemiology, assessment, and management of dysphagia, including the role of modifying the consistency of food and liquids, feeding tubes, and the role of dysphagia rehabilitation like tongue and cough strengthening. He doesn’t prescribe thickened liquids, because he just puts in feeding tubes in everybody.

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

GeriPal

Additional links mentioned in the podcast: Recent JGIM article on POLST in California nursing homes, hospitalization, and nursing home care Karl’s GeriPal post on appropriate use of POLST Enjoy! Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back Karl Steinberg, he’s a palliative care doc and a geriatrician. Welcome, Karl.

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Ep.7: How to Navigate Social Media Marketing in Home-Based Care

Home Care Pulse

And, and there was an article that was written a few years ago that I shared that there was this woman, she has like 20 like a million followers on Instagram and she couldn’t sell 26 t-shirts. You stop on the content, you read the articles, you comment on the post, and that’s why you continue to see more.

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Brenda’s Story: A Lesson in Battling Burnout and Retaining Top Care Professionals

Home Care Pulse

Article Contents: – Introduction – Battling Burnout in Post-Acute Care – Brenda’s Story – Are Your Brenda’s At Risk of Leaving – How to RETAIN Your Top Care Professionals – Take the Initiative – Next Steps Article Contents: 1. Battling Burnout in Post-Acute Care 3.

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