Caregiver Support Services

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Making the decision that it’s time for your elderly parent to move into a long-term care facility is never easy, yet in some instances it is essential if your parent needs care you might not be able to offer. Selecting the right long-term care facility will impact your parent’s experience.

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Daily Nurse

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Home healthcare nursing is a collaborative team approach to patient care. From private duty for long-term care of adults and children with neurodegenerative and motor disorders to rehabilitative and therapeutic nursing for those recovering from an injury or illness, we take a holistic approach to treatment.

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Home With Help

APRIL 1, 2025

What Are Your Healthcare Preferences? Are they open to hospice care? Do they have a living will or an advance healthcare directive in place? Understanding these wishes now prevents confusion later and allows you to advocate for their care with confidence. Do they have long-term care insurance?

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Minority Nurse

JUNE 15, 2023

Primarily working with elderly patients and those with disabilities, CNAs work in skilled nursing centers, assisted living communities, and staffing and home health agencies. Certified nursing assistants also provide vital work in hospice and hospital facilities.

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 18, 2023

Amanda Sternklar ( 00:44 ): Dr. Schwartz has spent the last two decades in long-term care serving several roles, including direct care case management, researcher, and policy analyst. Dr. Schwartz is a nationally recognized expert on quality and assisted living and workforce issues in long-term care.

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Seasons Hospice

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Recognize the Scope of Care Needs The first step in balancing caregiving responsibilities with personal needs is to understand the full scope of your parents’ care needs. This involves assessing their physical health, cognitive abilities, and emotional state.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Assisted Living Communities (no longer preferable to call them Assisted Living Facilities, as we learned on the podcast) are…what, exactly? The problem is the tremendous heterogeneity in services offered and quality of care. If you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community you’ve seen one Assisted Living Community. .

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Caregiver Support Services

JUNE 25, 2024

Addressing financial concerns Cost is a significant factor when considering memory care facilities. The expenses associated with memory care can be substantial, and planning for the financial aspect of care is essential. SonderCare beds are an excellent example of this innovation.

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Home Care Pulse

JUNE 13, 2023

And when you, you let the staff know how much you care about them, you let your residents, your patients know how much you care about them, you know, that is what created that great place to work. It’s what created that great level of care is just that one-on-one connection. We want to make a difference.

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Caregiver Support Services

APRIL 10, 2024

NPs often serve as primary healthcare providers and may specialize in areas such as family medicine, pediatrics, or gerontology. Nurse Practitioner (NP) NPs are advanced practice registered nurses who can perform many of the same functions as physicians. They can prescribe medications, diagnose diseases, and provide treatment plans.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

They have an advanced directive that specifies the type of they would care they would like to receive in a very specific situation, but not the situation at hand. So for example, you know, the director of the assisted living facility could be the person who knows the patient the best. So there’s no healthcare surrogate.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 20, 2023

He’s a geriatrician and Chair of Public Policy for the California Association of Long-Term Care Medicine. Eric: So before we talk about improving… So first of all, we just had a podcast not too long ago on assisted living facilities, so it seems very timely. I hope I got that right.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

If you develop dementia, odds are you will spend the last months to years of your life in a nursing home or assisted living facility. Caroline: And I love how you highlight the importance of these staff biases, perhaps implicit bias that is driving some of these healthcare decisions. Summary Transcript Summary.

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Home Care Pulse

APRIL 28, 2022

What this means for home care: The industry is reaching new heights after earning an increased level of appreciation in the healthcare space due to the pandemic. For the home care industry, it has only strengthened our focus on efforts to provide quality care and keep older Americans in their homes and safe.”.

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Seasons Hospice

JANUARY 16, 2023

This can make the thought of hospice care depressing for those facing the prospect of utilizing this type of healthcare service. It is important to remember that hospice care does not have to mean defeat or surrender in the face of illness. Many people associate it with death, sadness, and hopelessness.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

JULY 17, 2023

Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a Proposed Rule that, if finalized, would extend the application of the “36-Month Rule” from home health agencies (“HHAs”) to also include hospice agencies as well. The 36-Month Rule, found at 42 C.F.R.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

The long-term care is being actually provided in the community at a much higher rate than what the formal system provides. Eric: Which is, so let’s say I am a provider, a healthcare provider taking, let’s say a nurse practitioner working in an older, a clinic that’s mainly caring for older adults.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

So it’s been a privilege to be given the opportunity to get engaged on specifically the dementia care side of this. Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? Eric: We had a podcast on Care Ecosystem, another evidence-based model for dementia care.

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