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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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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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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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How to Fix the Nursing Shortage and Address Burnout: Veteran Nurse Leader Has the Answers

Daily Nurse

We need to understand most nurses in acute care and long-term care settings now are novice nurses or nurses who have only been in the profession for a few years. In a team model, the nurses oversee the care by unlicensed assistive personnel. But we have to do that to care for our patients appropriately.

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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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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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Keeping Alzheimer’s Patients at Home With Memory Care

Comfort Home Care

Personal care : Help with activities of daily living (ADLs) such as bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, housekeeping, laundry, meal prep, and help with eating. Cost-effective: In most cases, in-home care is more cost-effective than other forms of long-term care.

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