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Caring for Aging Parents: Balancing Your Needs and Theirs

Seasons Hospice

Balancing the needs of aging parents with our own responsibilities and self-care can be both challenging and rewarding. In this blog post, we will explore strategies for maintaining a balance between caregiving duties and personal needs, ensuring that both you and your aging parents receive the care and attention you deserve.

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National Falls Prevention Week: Turning awareness into action

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

Functional task training : Helping residents build confidence in their ability to perform tasks like bathing, dressing and transferring from a chair, which are often fall risk moments. OTs ensure older adults maintain independence while reducing their risk of falling through tailored adaptations. Have a column idea?

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Finding your PAC

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

However, after watching a group of tiny 7-year-olds wake before the sun with smiles, joyfully clean stalls, bathe their ponies, and ride with pride, I was changing my tune to, “Girl, your horse friends are solid people.”. Their constant support for each other: “We don’t care who wins. Bathe, shovel, graze your horse, anything at all?”

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Mother, may I? Please, don’t ask

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

We should continue to honor their ability to not ask approval even once they enter the post-acute care spectrum. Let us love them and care for them, but not “mother” them. Provide freedom of movement and support ambulation abilities for as long as possible. Allow them to fail, to learn, and to try again. Have a column idea?

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CNA Week Recognizes Certified Nursing Assistants

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To help ensure the success of CNAs and the highest quality of caregiving, the NAHCA advocates for CNAs by working closely with healthcare providers and the long-term care facilities where many CNAs work. CNAs work under the direct supervision of a nurse and so must learn how to advocate for themselves and for their patients.

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Impact of Section GG, ANAs and Social Risk Factors (SRFs) on PAC outcomes

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

The contract Acumen LLC operates under is the Quality Measure & Assessment Instrument Development & Maintenance & QRP Support for the Long Term Care Hospital, Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility, Skilled Nursing Facility, Quality Reporting Programs, & Nursing Home Compare (75FCMC18D0015/Task Order 75FCMC19F0003).

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Senior Housing Options: From Independent Living to Assisted Living

Seasons Hospice

Assisted Living Assisted living is designed for seniors who need help with daily activities such as bathing, dressing, and medication management but still want to maintain a level of independence. Cost : Senior housing can be expensive, and costs vary widely depending on the type of community and the level of care provided.