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Tips for Taking Care of a Confined Older Adult at Home

Caregiver Support Services

Regular sponge baths or bed baths prevent skin infections and keep your client feeling fresh. Books, puzzles, or simple arts and crafts can provide mental stimulation to keep your clients mind active. Encourage light movements or assisted stretching if theyre able, as this can improve blood flow and reduce stiffness.

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HSPN Staffing Summit: Leveraging Technology for Person-Centered Care

Hospice News

Her first publication, a children’s book entitled Daniel’s World: A Book About Children with Disabilities , is the closest to her heart. You’re running late and the only control that family members had all day long to help to get that good bath. Wedding cake is one of his favorite things in the world.

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The Well-Fed Nursing Career

Minority Nurse

You can grow by taking your continuing education seriously through podcasts, videos, books, nursing journals, in-person and recorded CEU courses, conferences, and webinars. This doesn’t necessarily mean bubble baths and meditation, although it might.

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Anxiety in Late Life and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson

GeriPal

I remember you brought up something called the bathe technique. So the bathe method was sort of a purported. I was introduced to Bathe by another Bay Area palliative care, Alex. And so bathe is an acronym. And then we have Alex Sablesmith, and this is his bathe method. Alex Gamble 18:33 Yeah, absolutely.

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The Benefits of Reminiscence Therapy for Dementia

Home Sweet Home In-Home Care

If the activity invokes anxiety, close the book and move on to something else. Smelling familiar, enjoyable scents, which could have meaning for the person: freshly mowed grass, flowers that grew around their family home as a child, a specific brand of shampoo, bubble bath, or soap they used to bathe the kids when they were little, etc.

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Heartwarming Holiday Gifts Nurses Will Love

Daily Nurse

Although gift baskets are highly customizable, some staples include bath salts and bombs, candles, fragrances, etc. One of our favorite gift suggestions for nurses is an event voucher from sites like Groupon or even booking something directly on a business’s site.

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Crumbled Walls: A Transformative Caregiving Journey

AJN Off the Charts

His once unblemished mural, now in ruins, left him dependent and vulnerable, requiring nursing assistance for basic tasks like toileting and bathing. I published my first children’s book last fall. They refused medications, neglected repositioning, and denied him even the most basic nursing care.