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Pleasantly confused: Finding the balance in dementia care

Rehab Realities by Renee Kinder

While this story is a lighthearted example, it highlights a deeper issue faced by caregivers and healthcare professionals working with individuals with dementia: the delicate balance between respecting a persons emotional state and ensuring their safety and well-being. More like “awesomely clueless,” I thought. Have a column idea?

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Exploring Senior Care Services in Fareham

Caregiver Support Services

Residential care homes in Fareham provide a supportive environment where seniors can live with assistance available around the clock. Care home services in Fareham cater to seniors who require help with daily activities, such as bathing, dressing, and eating.

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

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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. They’re unhappy and need to see healthcare organizations addressing the pitfalls that we’re seeing with staffing.

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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 may also use technology to help record healthcare details or to chart tasks or patient changes.

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